ACT Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith
A DAY before the ACT government’s third COVID-19 mass vaccination clinic opens at Canberra Airport, Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith is urging Canberrans to roll up their sleeves and take up the opportunity to get a vaccination as soon as possible.
The airport clinic at 30 Nomad Drive, Pialligo, will be providing Pfizer vaccinations to eligible Canberrans from 8am to 3.30pm, seven days a week.
Canberrans aged 40-59 years can book for a Pfizer appointment at the airport precinct clinic or Garran.
Bookings are also open to anyone between the ages of 16 and 39 who is:
a health, aged care, disability sector or other critical services worker
Shadow health minister Giulia Jones.
A MAJORITY of the recommendations made by an independent review into the workplace culture of Canberra’s public health services have been ignored, said shadow health minister Giulia Jones.
The report,
“Review into the Workplace Culture within ACT Public Health Services”, was published in 2019 and identified troubling levels of bullying, poor leadership and inappropriate recruitment practices.
It made 20 recommendations and only seven of them have been implemented, said Ms Jones.
She said Canberra health workers deserve to have the recommendations of a review into workplace culture in the ACT public health system implemented in full.
Healthcare workers in the ACT and surrounding region who are most at risk from COVID-19 through their work will be some of the first people to receive.
Written by Kate McDonald on
16 December 2020.
Virtual care was again at the forefront during the third quarter of the 2020 eHealth year, with telehealth and remote monitoring being harnessed across the country as the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic arrived.
Victoria, the hardest hit state, rolled out a number of initiatives to help manage the pandemic, including Alfred Health and Monash Health, which introduced a intelligent decision-support system called CovidCare to monitor patients who had tested positive for COVID-19 and were self-isolating at home.
The University of Melbourne launched a clinical trial of a remote monitoring solution also called CovidCare in general practices and respiratory clinics, with patients in self-isolation or quarantine provided with an app to self-monitor their physical symptoms and to identify mental health needs. By October, this trial had recruited 24 clinics around the country and was being expanded to use the app to help patients de