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19/12/06
This summer the Cancer Council is again strengthening its commitment and support to GPs diagnosing, treating and managin more... |
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29/08/06
Prostate awareness
Prostate awareness seminar on Saturday 9 September from 9.00am-12.00pm in the Richmond Room (behind more... |
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20/10/05 Dr Dan Ewald
The NRDGP has been awarded two grants of $25,000 each to improve the awareness and skills of GPs and practice nurses to more... |
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19/02/05 Cecily Barrack
The division’s practice liaison team and the NCAHS Respiratory Priority Health Care Program, which is based at the divis more... |
16/11/04 
Wednesday 17 November is World COPD Day.
Nothing else matters if you can’t breathe. About one in 10 people over 45 more... |
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20/10/04
Practices in the Northern Rivers Division of General Practice are invited to participate in a number of activities leadi more... |
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30/06/04
A new breast cancer multidisciplinary team (BC- MDT) has recently been formed to provide a more consistent and coordinat more... |
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30/06/04
In 2004 Polo Ralph Lauren provided the National Breast Cancer Cente with $20,000 as part of the Pink Pony campaign to a more... |
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14/05/04 Dr Chris Mitchell
The NRAHS is currently implementing system changes in relation to the management of people with chronic heart failure (C more... |
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20/02/04 Dr Dan Ewald
Part 2: GPs and nicotine replacement therapy
As highlighted in part one of this article, spending some time helping o more... |
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20/12/03 Dr Dan Ewald
The top four causes of disease burden (combination of mortality and morbidity) in Australia are ischaemic heart disease, more... |
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18/12/03
Local GP and president of the Rural Doctors Association of Australia, Sue Page, is a member of the Federal Indemnity Pol more... |
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18/12/03
The Priority Health Care Program’s cancer project has just announced funding of eight dedicated lymphoedema hours a week more... |
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18/12/03
People newly diagnosed with cancer need user-friendly information as soon as possible after diagnosis. So says the Cance more... |
29/10/03 
John Stretch at home in Ballina.
John Stretch of Ballina is just one of many patients who ha more... |
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03/07/03 
Lynda Blayden and Sue Smallcombe from Casino Compassionate Carers with Lyndie Dennehy (middle), Southern Cross Credit Un more... |
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01/07/03
The Bowl Cancer Over (BCO) fundraiser has raised more than $8,000 dollars for local cancer support groups in the Norther more... |
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20/06/03
The NSW Clinical Services Framework for Chronic Respiratory Disease is the first in a series of evidence based framework more... |
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16/05/03
Six local towns have already bowled cancer over. Now it’s the turn of Bangalow next Sunday (May 25).
The fun day out more... |
03/04/03 
Gimme the money!! Sue Hutton, cancer liaison worker with the Priority Health Care Program, and Mary-Anne Doyle, patient more... |
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26/03/03
Casino, South Lismore, Kyogle, Mullumbimby and Condong have already bowled cancer over. Now it’s the turn of Woodburn th more... |
21/03/03 
Earl Duffy and Charles Marsden (background) from Iluka are almost half way through the pulmonary rehabilitation program more... |
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20/11/02
Nothing else matters if you can’t breathe. About one in 10 people over 45 years of age in the Northern Rivers are suffer more... |
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18/11/02
The first Bowl Cancer Over event held in the Kyogle Bowling Club yesterday raised more than $500 for local cancer suppor more... |
13/11/02 
Ivan Eichorn of the Northern Rivers Prostrate Support Group bowls to launch Bowl Cancer Over. He is watched by Sara Hurr more... |
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08/11/02
Bowl Cancer Over is a fundraising initiative of the Priority Health Care cancer team, based at the Northern Rivers Divis more... |
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20/08/02
In a first for any area health service, six community health male nurses are near completion of their studies through La more... |
20/08/02 Cecily Barrack
Lismore resident Guiseppe Albertini enjoys the sun on his verandah at the end of his weekly outreach visit from communit more... |
20/08/02 
An experienced registered nurse with an extensive background in outback indigenous communities has been appointed to run more... |
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06/06/02
Lennox Head GP, Hilton Koppe, will give a talk to the Northern Rivers Prostate Cancer Support Group on Tuesday 18 June a more... |
31/05/02 
War veteran Phil Barter from Goonellabah has emphysema. It is the result of many years of smoking, a habit he took up wh more... |
01/05/02 
Doing their individual exercises at the pulmonary rehab program are Lexie Napier, Anton Ruygrok and Josie Maloney while more... |
01/05/02 
Taking a break at a meeting in Coraki of heart failure management health staff are organiser Kerry Wilcox, PHCP cardiac more... |
01/05/02 Katherine Breen Kurucsev
The Three Musketeers as they like to call themselves, have only praise for the respiratory rehabilitation program. Not o more... |
19/04/02 
Anthony Solomon
The Commonwealth Department of Health has funded a 12-month NRAHS Aboriginal vascul more... |
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19/04/02
Cancer liaison worker
Sue Hutton, the cancer liaison worker at Lismore Base Hospital, has been based in the cancer care more... |
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23/03/02
Aim
To facilitate the discharge planning process through a liaison worker with specific knowledge and skills in heart f more... |
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23/03/02
Aim
To improve the coordination and continuity of care for people affected by cancer.
To improve self management prac more... |
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23/03/02
The NRAHS is implementing an area wide 'PEAK' respiratory model. It will incorporate evidence based interventions that more... |
23/03/02 
John Ansell, one of the eight member pulmonary rehab group, hard at work on the bicycle machine.
Pulmonary rehabili more... |
21/02/02 
Betty Wilson from Lennox Head is pictured on the arm ergometer, which gives the upper body a workout. She has not been a more... |
20/02/02 Sara Hurren
The Living with Cancer Program coordinators are (l-r) Sara Hurren, Sharee Pine and Anne-Marie Griffin.
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20/01/02 
Anne Marie Cheffins, the PHCP heart failure liaison worker, checks Lois Taylor’s blood pressure as part of her weekly ho more... |
01/12/01 
The PHCP team (l-r): Cecily Barrack, Kerry Wilcox and Sarah Hurren.
The Northern Rivers Divis more... |
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01/12/01
The Northern Rivers Division of General Practice, in conjunction with the Northern Rivers Area Health Service, is hostin more... |
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01/12/01
Respiratory disease costs more than $1 billion dollars every year in Australia and is the third biggest killer in NSW.
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01/12/01 
Pictured are front row l-r: Heather Scolari, cardiac, Maclean; Natalie Newell, respiratory, Grafton; Paul Harrison, card more... |
01/12/01 
Phil Barter from Goonellabah, a war veteran in his 80s, finds the respiratory rehabilitation program very useful and is more... |
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01/12/01
Almost half a million Australians have it and it is the fourth leading cause of death in Australia. Yet there is little more... |
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20/11/01
John Ansell, one of the eight member pulmonary rehab group, hard at work
on the bicycle machine.
The division and more... |
16/11/01 
Celebrating the end of another exercise class are (seated l-r): Naida Matthews, Iris Bowman, Margaret Roys, Doreen Reeve more... |
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20/09/01
Cancer
Aim
To improve the coordination and continuity of care for people affected by cancer.
To improve self managem more... |
20/07/01 
The division and the NRAHS's collaboration on cardiac rehabilitation has been going for more than a year now. With the more... |
16/07/01 
Claudette Shearman, founder of the Lung Support Group, presents flowers to Cecily Barrack, respiratory coordinator, NRDG more... |
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01/12/99
Prevention is better than cure. This is the philosophy behind screening tests that aim to uncover a potentially fatal di more... |
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