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Bendigo Advertiser July 20, 2024: Pam Scherger credits a local support group with helping her adjust to an acquired disability. Now, as government policy around the complicated sector continues to evolve and advocacy organisations campaign for urgently needed funding increases, that support group has closed down. Some of its members have been “devastated” by the … Continue reading
Bendigo Advertiser, May 25, 2024: Mandurang South resident Andrew Marks spent 45 years working in agricultural and rural banking, the last decade-and-a-half of it around the Bendigo region. It was an interesting and varied career, which he enjoyed. Then one morning a year ago he woke up having a stroke. It came “out of the … Continue reading
Korong Vale teenager Tyson Woodman was technically dead for 12 minutes last year. But one year on and thanks to the dedication of first responders, healthcare providers, family and friends, the 19-year-old – who is something of a local character – is fit enough to reunite with everyone involved in his miraculous recovery, and help … Continue reading
Bendigo Advertiser, December 30, 2023: Bendigo pharmacists are welcoming the news they will be able to provide customers with a range of vaccinations free of charge from January 1. “For the patients, it’s brilliant,” White Hills Pharmacy owner Sanjay Jhaveri said. “I’m 100 per cent in favour of it.” “For my clientele, it will be … Continue reading
Bendigo Advertiser, October 17, 2023: A Bendigo pharmacy is facing a $300,000 a year income cut linked to new dispensing rules, with once-free services now incurring charges as businesses bid to claw back their losses. In September, the federal government introduced changes to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) to enable doctors to prescribe 60 days … Continue reading
Bendigo Advertiser, March 9, 2023: Wayne Porthouse is adamant the Stroke Association of Victoria’s Bendigo support centre saved his life. Mr Porthouse’s stroke was so severe that he was left unable to swallow, eat or drink, and before visiting the centre and joining the support group he had become seriously depressed. “When you’ve had a … Continue reading
THREE out of 14 Bendigo aged care homes have received unsatisfactory ratings in the federal government’s new online aged care star rating system, indicating “improvement [is] needed.” Despite teething problems with the new system, including claims its ratings are out of date, experts say it is a good first step in providing transparency and accountability … Continue reading
Bendigo Advertiser, December 29 2022: Bendigo Health’s COVID-screening clinic has probably carried out close to a million tests over its three years of operation, nurse unit manager Veronica Steegs thinks, although it is impossible to know for certain. Staff have carried out 624,000 tests since January 2021 but due to a change of systems, data … Continue reading
Sean O’Farrell saved by Bendigo Health nurse Bec Fawcett after Lake Weeroona heart attack Bendigo Health emergency nurse Bec Fawcett was overcome with emotion when asked about the man whose life she saved at Lake Weeroona last month. Sean O’Farrell, who had a heart attack after a Saturday morning footy training session, is just 22. … Continue reading
District health services continuing to experience potentially dangerous delays in blood testing and matching given the failure of Australian Clinical Labs to reopen its Kerang pathology lab after COVID-related closure. Gannawarra Times, June 19, 2020 ”Temporary” lab closure continues’ Gannawarra Times, January 12, 2021 New pathology contract with public provider
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