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29/10/06
Rural GPs providing obstetric services will be eligible for increased payments through the Practice Incentives Program ( more... |
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29/10/06
Training more allied health practitioners could help the health system move out of crisis, according to Dr Andrew Binns. more... |
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29/08/06
A new general surgeon has relocated to the region. Dr Hamish Foster has been appointed to Lismore Base Hospital and he i more... |
29/08/06 Dr Jane Reffell
Lismore Family Planning Services (Lismore FPS) has been part of the medical community in Lismore since 1980 and provides more... |
29/08/06 
Anne Moehead
Anne Moehead, who has worked for many years with the Richmond ACAT team and now works in the acute setti more... |
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20/06/06
Nationals leader Mark Vaile has proposed that the Australian Government provide specific, quarantined funding for State more... |
20/06/06 
Byron West practice manager, Di Mouncey.
A new medical centre has opened in the industrial estate in Byron Bay.
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20/04/06
Seven GPs have moved to the area in the last two months, or are about to arrive, bringing a welcome increase to the GP w more... |
20/04/06 
Hopping off his bike to cut the ribbon at the newly expanded NRUDRH student accommodation wing is Federal Health Ministe more... |
20/02/06 Katherine Breen Kurucsev
Obstetrician Geoff Trueman
The loss of obstetrician Geoff Trueman to the area will have a ripple effect in the re more... |
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20/02/06
GP obstetrician Aldo Castagna in Casino stopped delivering babies at the end of last year, leaving Jurriaan Beek the onl more... |
19/02/06 
The first licensed nurse practitioner in oncology in NSW is a local man who works at Lismore Base Hospital’s Cancer Care more... |
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21/12/05 Katherine Breen Kurucsev
In a little over 12 months, Australia will need between 1100 and 1200 new GPs every year, but only about 700 GPs are cur more... |
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20/10/05
The advisory committee put together by the NCAHS to examine the future of Campbell Coraki Hospital has agreed to support more... |
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20/10/05
Dr Dan Ewald has been doing two sessions a week at Bunjum Aboriginal Co-operative in Ballina for the past couple of year more... |
20/10/05 Dr David Miller
A GP’s voyage in rural obstetrics and how we went off course.
Part 2
Part 1 looked at the background to the curren more... |
16/06/05 Katherine Breen Kurucsev
Whilst the community consultation process has not pleased everyone involved in the fight to save Campbell Hospital, Cora more... |
20/04/05 Katherine Breen Kurucsev
Dr Chanchal Marik and Dr Rosemary Craig on the steps of Coraki Hospital
The division supports the efforts of Co more... |
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20/04/05
Case study
Jane, aged 31, was attacked and sexually assaulted while walking from work to her car late at night. She pre more... |
19/02/05 
Dan Ewald, one of the division’s GP managers, with Dr Peter Stewart of Lismore after the GP visit. “I think the division more... |
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19/02/05
Rural and remote procedural GPs can now access financial assistance to undertake skills maintenance and upskilling train more... |
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15/12/04 Katherine Breen Kurucsev
December 2004
A recent survey of all GPs working within the division’s boundaries reveals that 172 GPs work the equiv more... |
20/08/04 
16 million reasons to smile! Breast care nurse Nancy Jaeger and surgeon Austin Curtin are delighted with Tony Abbott’s a more... |
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14/05/04 Prof John Beard
It’s taken a long time, but the three campuses of the Northern Rivers University Department of Rural Health (NRUDRH) are more... |
20/02/04 
Jennifer Gray at one of the division’s emergency upskilling seminars.
After 22 years of practising as a GP, Byron more... |
17/10/03 
Ophthalmologist, James La Nauze
At a time when many country towns are struggling to retain more... |
20/08/03 
Larry Anthony MP addresses the assembled guests at the opening of North Coast GP Training. NCGPT chair Dr Chris Mitchell more... |
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20/06/03
As part of the rural workforce project, supported by the division and funded by the Rural Doctors Network, I am seeking more... |
20/06/03 
We’re in the country now! Students at a local agri expo check out what it’s like to sit in a tractor.
The North more... |
17/04/03 
Jackie Andrews has recently been appointed as a community paediatrician for the NRAHS for 2.5 days a week.
The new s more... |
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17/04/03 Liz Degotardi
Managed in this region by North Coast NSW GP Training, the GP procedural program is a State government response to healt more... |
20/02/03 
Pausing for a quick photo before starting their first group training session, these new registrars more... |
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17/12/02
by Katherine Breen Kurucsev
After initially missing out on one of the tenders for regionalised GP training, North Coa more... |
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17/12/02 Katherine Breen Kurucsev
Following State Health Minister Craig Knowles’s November announcement that Coffs Harbour and Port Macquarie would receiv more... |
17/12/02 Dr Sharon Reid
Byron Bay GP Rob Trigger pictured at the medicine stand with two of the rural health club medical students.
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20/11/02 
No rural GP training consortia in NSW were successful in their tender submissions to GPET (General Practice Education an more... |
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16/10/02
The government released the long-awaited Baume report of the radiation oncology inquiry in September, which advised the more... |
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20/08/02
The wait continues to find out where in rural and regional Australia six new radiation oncology units announced in the M more... |
20/08/02 Robin Osborne
Robin Osborne is the community relations manager at the NRAHS. more... |
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20/06/02
The division welcomed the recent Budget announcement that the Government would provide $73 million over four years for b more... |
20/06/02 
In April, medical students from the University of Sydney (undertaking rural general practice pla more... |
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19/04/02
There has been in principal agreement between the divisions of general practice in the Northern Rivers and Mid North Coa more... |
19/04/02 
Sue Page
The NSW Rural Doctors’ Association recently convinced the State Government to go back to the drawing boa more... |
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23/03/02 Dr Sharon Reid
At the University of Sydney, the Department of General Practice has played a key role in the recent re-shaping of medica more... |
20/02/02 Katherine Breen Kurucsev
Lennox Head GP, Sue Page, pictured here with the manager of the Jali Health Post on Cabbage Tree Island, Judy Currie, ha more... |
20/02/02 
The division has welcomed its first medical student to the region under the prestigious John Flynn Scholarship Scheme (J more... |
06/02/02 
Medical student, Lisa Zappala, who is in the region on a John Flynn scholarship, is pictured with Judy Currie, the manag more... |
20/01/02 
Scholarship winners Janine Arnold and Peter Flynn check out Cathryn Amey’s computerised system in her rooms.
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20/01/02 
Dr Andrew Binns looks on as medical student Elaine Sung gets to grips with Nordic walking poles.
The No more... |
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20/01/02
Just over two years ago a large regional meeting took place to discuss the much needed nursing needs for isolated Aborig more... |
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07/12/01
Dr Andrew Binns looks on as medical student Elaine Sung gets to grips with Nordic walking poles, an exercise walking aid more... |
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01/12/01
Some old-hand GPs will show off the region’s attractions to the latest influx of trainee GPs on a day trip this Sunday.
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01/12/01 
The Northern Rivers Division of General Practice has produced a glossy eight page prospe more... |
01/12/01 
Dr Reffell pictured at the propellor of her transport, a Beachcraft Baron, just before taking off from Lismore Airport f more... |
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20/11/01
At the University of Sydney, the Department of General Practice has played a key role in the recent re-shaping of medica more... |
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20/11/01
The division is working to improve communications between hospitals and community based GPs. Two of the main contacts a more... |
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16/11/01
A new GP starts work in Coraki on Monday. This is great news for the town, which had been left without the services of a more... |
20/09/01 
Over the next few months we are going to hear a lot about economic growth.
In the lead-up to the election the Federa more... |
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20/07/01
Research shows most patients attending GPs surgeries are women and most women would prefer a woman doctor.
However, w more... |
20/07/01 
In Australia, the number of GPs carrying out deliveries over the last five years has dropped by 40%, with country areas more... |
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20/07/01
The NRDGP has produced a glossy eight page prospectus aimed at medical students, registr more... |
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20/07/01
Rural doctors who have been working in primary health care in some of the more isolated rural areas of NSW may be entitl more... |
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20/05/01
The outcomes of a national symposium on general practice and population health held in March are likely to have a signif more... |
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20/05/01
After 17 years in practice in Coraki, Peter Ulrick is heading to Sydney. Family reasons are behind the move, which will more... |
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01/12/00
From December 31st, Ballina Hospital will no longer be doing elective confinements. Hopefully this will only be a tempor more... |
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01/12/00
Mayne Nickless’s share price was plummeting last financial year, with the group posting a 31% drop in earnings. Enter Pe more... |
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01/12/99
Negotiations with the University of Sydney to establish a hybrid clinical school and university department in Lismore ar more... |
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01/12/99
Media release - 14/02/01
Two GP obstetricians resigned their positions at Mullumbimby Hospital this week due to the e more... |
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01/12/99
As reported in the last edition of GPSpeak, the GPs at Tweed Heads Hospital have been excluded from direct admissions. T more... |
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01/12/99
Lismore was pipped at the post by Coffs Harbour in the quest to have a rural clinical school located in the city. Instea more... |
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01/12/99
Two GP obstetricians resigned their positions at Mullumbimby Hospital in February due to the escalating cost of medical more... |
