Remuneration: $30.46 - $44.03 per hour + superannuation + salary packagingLocation: Tamworth Hospital, Kamilaroi NationEmployment Type: Permanent Part TimePosition Classification:

The 2018 – 19 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey (NATSIHS) released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows a reduction in smoking and improvements in how people feel about their health, but an increase in many chronic diseases for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The information from the survey can help inform NACCHO policy but also service delivery priorities for loc...

Challenging & Rewarding Leadership Role for Experienced or Endorsed MidwifeEmployment Type: PermanentEmployment Category: Full-timeRemuneration: $ 110, 560.65 to $ 121, 033.12 per annum (Base) + SuperannuationBenefits: Furnished accommodation, 6 weeks annual leave, Salary Sacrifice up to $15,900 About the Opportunity

A majority, 59 per cent, of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults are at an elevated risk of developing severe illness from COVID-19 due to ongoing health inequities, a major study led by The Australian National University (ANU) has found. The study examined the prevalence of health factors like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and smoking among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults, which all increase the risk of severe illness if an unvaccinated person gets C...

The National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) is spreading the message to all Australians that ‘There is light at the end of the tunnel, not at the end of a cigarette’ on World No Tobacco Day. For this year’s World No Tobacco Day, NACCHO’s message is particular...

Medicine Review Changes Over the past weeks, there have been several changes to improve how ACCHO clients can receive medicines reviews.  These changes are summarised below and include enabling telehealth delivery of medicines reviews, funding pharmacist follow-ups after the initial review, increasing the number of Home Medicine Reviews (HMRs) pharmacists can do, updating medicines review guidelines and broadening who can initiate a medicines review. ...

The collaborative arrangements that nurse practitioners are required to have with medical practitioners in order to receive Medicare-subsidised payments are analysed in the latest issue of Australian Health Review (AHR), the academic journal of the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association. An author team led by Professor Mary Chiarella from the University of Sydney sought...

“The Indigenous Australians’ Health Programme is investing $3.3 billion over four years to support the continued delivery of services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, particularly through Aboriginal community controlled health services,”Minister for Rural Health Fiona Nash has launched an Implementation Plan to help Close the Gap by improving the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Is...

The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) and the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) have welcomed the announcement of a trial to support Aboriginal health organisations to integrate pharmacists into their services. The trial was announced today by the Federal Minister for Health Greg Hunt at PSA17, PSA’s national conference. Both PSA and NACCHO thank the Minister for supporting this innovative project that will improve the h...

The peak body for Aboriginal controlled medical services today welcomed the release of the AMA’s 2017 Report Card on Indigenous Health and joined its call for a national, systematic approach to closing the gap in the rates of chronic otitis media between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children in Australia. This disease has long term disabling effects and social impacts in the Indigenous adult population. National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO...