Mental Health

More mental health services for young Victorians
The State Government is taking action to ensure young people across Victoria have access to the mental health services they need with a massive expansion of community-based youth centres.

First family mental health centre takes shape
The State Government is making sure Victorian children who need specialised, intensive mental health care get the treatment they need, with a site revealed for the state’s first child and family mental health centre.

Health Services

Work in ED is demanding and rewarding
Stefan Herodotou is celebrating 40 years as an emergency physician at Northern Health, starting at the old Preston and Northcote Community Hospital (PANCH) in 1981.

Northern speaks up on communication
Northern Health has used Speech Pathology Week to promote the profession and its work.

Persistence results in gain over debilitating pain
After living with persistent pain throughout her childhood, Terryn Huggard is moving freely again thanks to Peninsula Health.

Midwives help cut rates of stillbirth
A group of Monash Health midwives have led targeted work to improve healthcare outcomes for women and their unborn babies at Dandenong Hospital.

Ride takes mind off surgery
Pint-sized patients at the Joan Kirner Women and Children’s at Sunshine Hospital are driving themselves to the operating theatre in a remote-controlled car, helping to make surgery less scary.

Public Health

Community in the market for vaccinations
Austin Health’s COVID-19 pop up clinic at the Melbourne Market in Epping has been a huge success with more than 3,000 market users vaccinated over three weeks.

Monash pays tribute to pharmacists
Monash Health has paid tribute to its pharmacy department as it marks the milestone of more than 300,000 COVID-19 vaccinations.

Advice from contact tracing team leader
Ammar Haque’s message for the community is simple – at the slightest hint of any symptoms, such as a scratchy throat or a slight runny nose, go and get tested.

COVID-19 test milestone for Peninsula
Peninsula Health tested more than a quarter of a million people at its COVID-19 screening clinics within 18 months of the first swab being taken in the Frankston and Mornington Peninsula region.

Grass pollen season brings the chance of thunderstorm asthma
Grass pollen season – between October and the end of December – brings an increased risk of asthma and hay fever.

Men from Snowy River have no regrets about immunisation
Travelling nearly two hours via a windy road, an Orbost Regional Health team opened a COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Bonang for local, Tubbut and Bendoc communities.