Hand hygiene at Canberra Hospital gets a failing grade
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s MyHospitals website has just rated the nation’s hand hygiene in hospitals. Sadly Canberra Hospital has managed 64.8%, well below the national benchmark...
View ArticleYour day-to-day life in the ACT – Online survey with great prizes
On-line survey about Canberrans' daily lives is open 16th-31st May. It is funded by ACT Health and has a big prize draw of 3 iPads and 43 gift vouchers.
View ArticleEstimates recalled to grill the Chief Minister
The Legislative Assembly has posted a recall hearing of the Estimates Committee (Bresnan, Hargreaves, Coe, Hunter, Smyth) for Thursday (today) in which the Chief Minister will be fronting to talk about...
View ArticleBirth centre not staffed up
The ABC has the grimly familiar news of another cockup in health, this time at the Birth Centre which is turning away 400 women a year despite running at half capacity: Last year the centre was...
View ArticleTotal power outage at Calvary Hospital, but Code Yellow not activated?
On Saturday, the Canberra Times brought word that the Australia Day storm caused a total power outage at Calvary Hospital: Calvary Hospital lost all power, both main and auxiliary, for about 30 minutes...
View ArticleThe ever worsening emergency department
The Liberals’ Jeremy Hanson is taking a swing at the latest awful numbers coming out of the emergency department: “Waiting times are worse in every category, worryingly only 42 per cent of patients...
View ArticleHazmat at ACT Health
This in from c_c. More when it comes to hand. Got an image of Canberra you want to share with the world? Email it in to images@the-riotact.com . And this just in from our man: Firies packing up after...
View ArticleGlacial Canberra Hospital open their ears on hospital food (but not for the...
Hospital food is always going to be a vexed issue. Every penny spent on it could be going towards another staff member’s salary, a piece of equipment, a secure multi user data entry system, a bottle...
View ArticleACT Chronic Conditions Strategy for 2013-18
ACT Health released their Chronic Conditions Strategy for 2013 until 2018 yesterday. The increasing prevalence of chronic conditionsis one of the biggest burdens facing the Australian health system and...
View ArticleSecond food poisoning outbreak in Canberra
Emergency wards are clogged up with over 80 people suffering from food poisoning, and things look like they’re about to get worse. Another food poisoning incident has occurred, reports ABC News. ACT...
View ArticleCopa’s doors are open again
Copa, the restaurant at the heart of Canberra biggest salmonella outbreak ever has reopened its doors with the blessing of ACT Health reports ABC News. This is good news as I really would like to go…...
View ArticleANU “bullying” students out of interstate internships
ANU Medical School graduates are usually guaranteed a first round offer to intern at the Canberra Hospital, however as of this month a new policy will deny them that if they choose to also apply for...
View ArticleACT Health gets top marks
The independent Australian Council on Healthcare Standards have given the thumbs up to the ACT’s health system today, says Katy Gallagher. The team of surveyors evaluated all aspects of the ACT Health...
View ArticlePlease don’t forget about flu prevention crieth the Chief Health Officer
On Friday ACT Health released statistics showing a 2013 flu year so benign they had to break 2009 out of the historical data to make this year’s numbers show up at all. But good news does not sustain...
View ArticlePoliticians getting cranky, probably need a nap
It was all business for a while there press-release-wise, it’s good to see the people we elect into positions of power and responsibility have managed to get back to the important task of spending...
View ArticleNicole Feely new ACT Health Director General
Lead Partner for Health at KPMG Canberra and former chief executive of South Metropolitan Health (Western Australia) and St Vincent’s Health (Victoria), Ms Nicole Feely, will be the next ACT Health...
View ArticleHospital staff woes ‘diabolical’: Hanson
Shadow Minister for Health and Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Hanson has issued a statement describing staffing issues in the Intensive Care Unit at the Canberra Hospital as “diabolical” and linking...
View ArticleBill to block anti-abortion protests
Anti-abortion protests will be banned outside ACT abortion clinics after government MLAs rejected Liberal amendments to a Greens bill on exclusion zones in such scenarios. Labor MLAs will support a...
View ArticleACT still has longest emergency department wait times
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s Emergency Department Care 2014-15 report was released today and shows that ACT residents typically wait twice as long as the national average for...
View ArticleElective surgery ‘blitz’ to address long waits
The ACT Government has announced an elective surgery “blitz” in the first half of 2016 that will see the city’s surgeons perform an extra 1000 procedures in a bid to reduce the number of long-wait...
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