Minister for Rural and Regional Health Warren Snowdon this week joined Member for Page Janelle Saffin at Ballina Hospital to announce the establishment of a 12-bed rehabilitation and aged care service. The announcements were part of a two-day visit to the region, which included a tour and health reform forum at the Ballina District Hospital, [...]
North Coast Area Health Service (NCAHS) will be running a series of free Pandemic H1N1 (Swine Flu) Influenza Vaccination Clinics at Ballina Hospital during April and May. Everyone is encouraged to protect themselves and their families by being vaccinated against pandemic influenza. Globally there have been almost 16,000 deaths associated with pandemic influenza, with 191 [...]
Ballina Shire residents have been urged to take advantage of the Federal Government’s extension of the eligibility for free seasonal flu vaccine to cover those most at risk of complications from the flu. The flu vaccine remains free for those aged 65 years. It has been extended to cover Indigenous Australians and Torres Strait Islanders aged [...]
Page MP Janelle Saffin has announced $722,000 for the University of Sydney Dental School to construct a dental teaching clinic in Ballina. Ms Saffin said the funding will allow the University to expand its rural placements in Ballina. “Dental services in our region have been under-resourced for years, and I lobbied strongly for this joint [...]
Ballina girl Sarah Moore was one of 110 Youth Ambassadors for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) in Canberra this week, lobbying for funding for type 1 diabetes research. Page MP Janelle Saffin met Sarah and her mother, Denise, in her Parliamentary office on Thursday morning and then joined them at the Kids in the [...]
Two Far North Coast politicians are pushing for the return of mobile breast screening to local area. Greens MP Ian Cohen will ask Health Minister Carmel Tebbutt about improving access for all Northern Rivers women to the new breast screen machines that are at Tweed Heads and Lismore, while Member for Ballina Don Page (pictured) [...]
Ballina Relay For Life is on this weekend – 7th and 8th of November. Be there at 4pm for the opening ceremony. Join the cancer survivors in their lap of honour and celebrate those who have survived. Then at 8pm join in the hope ceremony where we remember those who have lost their fight against cancer. Continue around [...]
Page MP Janelle Saffin wants to hear from Ballina women who have been affected by the end of the mobile BreastScreen service to their town. Ms Saffin says health services should be making it easier, not harder, for women to have regular breast screening. “In Australia 12,000 women a year are diagnosed with breast cancer, [...]
Member for Ballina Don Page and Member for Lismore Thomas George have engaged in a campaign to increase people’s awareness of the current whooping cough epidemic and the importance of being immunised. Mr Page and Mr George are encouraging all parents to vaccinate their children (after two months of age) and adults to get a [...]
The Whiddon Group’s Home Independence Program is now open for business in Ballina Shire, and is helping older people to live safely and independently in their own homes. The program run by the not-for-profit group provides a broad range of services for clients, such as personal care assistance, housekeeping, home maintenance, home modifications, nursing care, [...]
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