Health

FUNDRAISING efforts are expected to begin in the new year towards attracting and retaining a permanent full time local GP service in Wentworth. A community…

MALLEE Family Care (MFC) chief executive officer Teresa Jayet has backed the nine recommendations made in the wake of Australia’s first royal commission into mental…

VICTORIA’S mental health system is “catastrophically” failing, with an estimated 105,000 Victorians living with severe mental illness not receiving specialist care. That’s according to Australia’s…

MILDURA Base Hospital (MBH) chief executive officer Julia Morgan admits the imminent transition of the hospital to public management has led to her decision to…

With Epilepsy Awareness Month upon us, CAITLYN MORGAN chats to three people about their experience with the disorder. FIFTEEN years ago Kerstie Henschke’s life changed in…

MILDURA Base Hospital will roster a senior doctor to be on its maternity ward full-time during business hours in a move it claims will improve…

MODERN families come in many different forms, as Mildura couple Ali Lush and Jemma Johnson have discovered. With the help of reciprocal IVF, the pair,…

“FIVE minutes of your time, for five years peace of mind.” That’s the message Sunraysia Community Heath Services women’s nurses, Jo Collins and Charlie Davis,…

IMAGINE having to juggle chemotherapy and radiotherapy while tending to the needs of 10-year-old twin boys and a premature baby. This was the reality for…

EXPECTANT mothers in Robinvale will receive antenatal care from two obstetricians who will visit Robinvale District Health Services (RDHS) fortnightly, Mildura Base Hospital (MBH) has…

MEN’S health will be a talking point among staff and customers at Forty Winks this month with owner Russell Dawson and three staff members taking…

APPLICATIONS for positions on the Mildura Base Hospital board open today. Premier Daniel Andrews and Health Minister Jenny Mikakos in August announced the hospital would…