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.
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Canberra emergency department wait times are the worst in the country, but the Health Minister says she ll fix it in nine months
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Kathryn Harradine became distressed while waiting in the emergency department with her sick baby Andy.
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It took five hours for Kathryn Harradine s six-month-old son Andy to be treated for a lung infection at Canberra Hospital s emergency department.
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The ACT Health Minister wants 70 per cent of ED patients to be seen on time by October
A doctor is being trialled at ED triage points in a bid to improve patient flow
By Kate Weber on Jan 27, 2021 12:50PM
For next five years.
Canberra Health Services (CHS) has created a new chief information officer role to oversee its digital information systems.
Reporting to the chief financial officer and the executive branch manager, the CIO will be responsible for information systems operations, ICT projects plus non-clinical digital records.
The CIO will manage CHS digital and business intelligence unit while providing strategic guidance to ensure the information systems meet the organisation s future needs.
CHS confirmed to iTnews that no one is presently acting in the role.
A spokesperson for CHS said CHS services includes the Canberra Hospital, the University of Canberra Hospital, Walk-in Centres, Community health centres including childhood, youth and women’s, dental, alcohol and drug services.
As well as the 50 million doses being produced on-shore, Australia will also import 3.8 million doses.
On Friday, AstraZeneca informed the European Commission that there would be significant shortfalls of up to 60% in the 100 million doses the European Union expected to receive in the first quarter of 2021.
Asked by Guardian Australia whether any action taken by the EU to block exports would affect Australia, a spokeswoman for AstraZeneca Australia said there had been “global supply challenges”.
“AstraZeneca’s plan remains to commence delivery of its vaccine to the Australian government as soon as possible, pending approval from TGA [Therapeutic Goods Administration].”
Unlike the legislatively reviled abandoned shopping trolleys, the urban “litter” of e-scooters on pathways, traffic islands, outside The Lodge, anywhere really, is just fine; likewise, the procession of injured people through the emergency departments of our hospitals. Will it end in tears, wonders columnist
IAN MEIKLE.
idea of these electric scooters, though daunted to discover there are about 1500 of them littering, a la shopping trolleys, the inner north, south, centre, lake and Belconnen.
Ian Meikle.
And I’m startled by the news that since their September launch, more than 60 people have been injured by e-scooter incidents so seriously they needed to be treated at an emergency department.