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(l-r) UCRH Director Prof Ross Bailie, the Assistant Minister for Rural Health, Dr David Gillespie, and Page MP Kevin Hogan inspecting the high-tech simulation facility at the Lismore campus.

Strong govt support for clinical student training

The day after Federal Parliament passed the backpacker tax package and rose for the summer vacation, the Member for Page, Kevin Hogan, flew back to the electorate to resume business on the ground.

His first port of call was the Lismore campus of the University Centre for Rural Health (UCRH), where, in the company of the Assistant Minister for Rural Health, Dr David Gillespie, he met trainee doctors and other health discipline students engaged in local clinical placements.

Details: Written by: Robin Osborne; Published: 02 December 2016

Rural General Practice Grants

Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan said the Coalition Government will provide more than $13 million in infrastructure grants for existing general practices in regional, rural and remote Australia to teach, train an retrain our next generation of health workers.

“General practice in regional community’s like ours faces unique challenges in healthcare including the ability to attract and retain a health workforce,” he said.

Mr Hogan said the Government has streamlined the former Rural and Regional Teaching Infrastructure Grants programme to better respond to the needs of regional communities.

“The new Rural General Practice Grants program will allow existing health facilities to provide teaching and training opportunities for a range of health professionals within the practice and for practitioners to develop experience in training and supervising healthcare workers,” he said.

Details: Written by: Staff; Published: 22 November 2016

GPSpeak Summer 2016-2017

I'm on the drug, I'm on the drug. I'm on the drug that killed River Phoenix.
I'm on the drug, I'm on the drug. I'm on the drug that killed River Phoenix.

I saw his body thrashing round. I saw his pulse rate going down.
I saw him in convulsive throws. I said "I'll have one of those."
…
Now I'm bored and there's no stopping; I need another celeb to fill a coffin;
Where'll I get my next drug action? Odds on it'll be Michael Jackson.

TISM, 27 April 1995

The eighties Australian band, This is Serious Mum, was better known for its biting satire than for its music. In retrospect, we can also acknowledge the lyrics were terrifyingly prescient.

Details: Written by: David Guest; Published: 22 November 2016

Chairman's Report 2016

'Tis the season for Christmas parties, commented my taxi driver recently, then wondered; “end of year, end of school, perhaps even end of days…”

Taxi drivers don't have an end of year celebration, he mused. They may work in the same industry, largely know each other but often they don't get on: “It's a business, you know.”

Details: Written by: David Guest; Published: 20 November 2016

Young condom users too cocky about their skills

A sampling of young people attending a NSW music festival has found that while 77 per cent felt confident about their condom use, 37 per cent had experienced breakage in the past year, 48 per cent had seen a condom slip off during intercourse, and 51 per cent when withdrawing the penis after sex.

According to Franklin John-Leader, Co-Chair of the North Coast Positive Adolescent Sexual Health Consortium (PASH), only 18 per cent of respondents reported always using condoms during sex in the past 12 months.