Federal Member for Flinders, the Hon. Greg Hunt MP, today joined with staff of The Bays Hospital in Mornington to formally sign off on federal funding for the Hospital’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre. The funding, announced in April, will provide $10 million from the Morrison Government to The Bays to build a new multi-storey centre…
Clinics in South East Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula will benefit from $6.5 million in funding to assist patients with chronic conditions. The funding, provided by the Morrison Government through the South Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network (SEMPHN), will see 28 general practices receive funding between $125,000 and $250,000 to deliver care coordination for…
E&OE… Topics: New Frontiers for Vision; euthanasia; stillbirths GREG HUNT: Look, thanks very much to Professor Margaret Gardner, Professor Elizabeth Croft and Professor Christina Mitchell and to our amazing researchers Professor Arthur Lowery and Professor Geoffrey Rose. In a sense, Monash University is the very model of the university in the 21st…
The Morrison Government will invest $924,100 for research to develop cutting edge technology to help people regain eyesight, movement, and other nerve functions. The Cortical Frontiers: Commercialising Brain Machine Interfaces project is headed by Professor Arthur Lowery, Professor of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Monash University, and is one of 10 highly promising…
E&OE… Topics: Aged Care; National Immunisation Program; PBS & Medicare; LEON BYNER: But in the meantime I want to talk about, first of all, the failure of three South Australian Government run aged care facilities. The reason I think that people are very upset about this is because this is 2 years…
The Liberal National Government is providing $5 million for ground-breaking research into the early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of eating disorders. Around 1 million Australians live with an eating disorder. They are extremely complex illnesses, and have one of the highest mortality rates of any psychiatric illness. The projects funded under this initiative include a…
E&OE… Topics: The re-elected Morrison Government JON FAINE: Scott Morrison unveiled his new ministry over the weekend. There’s winners and losers, and one of the big winners is the Victorian- senior Victorian Liberal, Health Minister Greg Hunt, who gets new responsibilities as sort of general government trouble-shooter, it would seem as the best…
Australia is on track for a record number of flu vaccinations in 2019 with an additional 400,000 flu vaccines to be brought into Australia over the coming weeks to meet unprecedented demand. Already over 12.1 million flu vaccines have been released into the market including 7.5 million for the National Immunisation Program (NIP) and state…
I am honoured and delighted to be reappointed as Minister for Health. Every day I see the amazing work of our doctors, nurses and medical researchers in helping to protect patients and save lives. Our task as a Government will be to support our patients and medical community in the ongoing implementation of the Long…
The Liberal National Government will funding 10 highly promising research projects that aim to tackle medical conditions such as epilepsy, dementia, antibiotic resistance, cerebral palsy and stroke. The projects, funded under Stage One of the bold Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Frontiers initiative, will receive funding of up to $1 million each over one year…
