“The Australian Government’s Implementation Plan for the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan 2013-2023 looks to the people who have runs on the board, those in the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health sector, to play a key role, and offers further opportunities for our Services to grow and deliver more primary health care to more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We congratulate Minister Fiona Nash on seeing this thro...

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The OrganisationThe Coalition of Peaks is a representative body of more than eighty Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community controlled peak organisations and members.  The Coalition of Peaks have come together as an act of self-determination to be formal partners with Australian governments and share in decision-making on Closing the Gap to improve the life outcomes of our people.The Coalition of Peaks are signatories to the National Agreement on Closing the Gap and t...

Due to the impacts of COVID-19, the Ochre Day Men’s Health Conference has been cancelled until further notice.The National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) Ochre Day Men’s Health Conference provides a national forum for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander male delegates, organisations and communities to share knowledge, design concepts and strengthen relationships that work to directly improve the health outcomes of Aboriginal and ...

As part of the Kimberley Aboriginal Suicide Prevention Trial, a group of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and social workers, united to discuss youth mental health strategies at the ‘Empowered Young Leaders Forum 2019’ in Broome WA.  Suicide is the fifth leading cause of death for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with suicide rates twice as high as that for other Australians (source: ABS data). Today is World Suicide Prevention Day and the ...

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...

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) and the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) have joined forces to produce a guide that aims to improve the level of healthcare currently being delivered to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients and close the gap. Chair of RACGP Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Associate Professor Peter O’Mara said the third edition of the National guide to a preventive healt...

The National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding focusing on the implementation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pharmacy programs and trials. NACCHO and the Guild said the MoU is built on the welcome initiatives already announced by the Government under the Sixth Community Pharmacy Agreement’s Pharmacy Trial Program (Tranche 1 and 2 projects), including improved medicati...

“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...