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By Chris Oldfield.

A regional health bureaucracy has been blocked from spending $4.3 million on hospital upgrades rather than radiation treatment services in the Limestone Coast. But only until a feasibility study for radiation therapy has been completed. Then SA Health Minister Chris Picton will make a decision. Whether to spend the $4.3 million on […]

By Chris Oldfiled.

The Keith and District Hospital has officially joined SA Health with a $9.75 million boost from the SA State Government. After so many decades of uncertainty, it was a moment the Upper SE community had been waiting for. Sporting a new public healthcare model – the facility will be known as Keith […]

By Nasik Swami The Naracoorte Public Hospital has gone digital with its medical recordings. As part of the digitalisation process, the hospital has commenced using electronic medical recording for patients, becoming the first subregional hospital to do so. Naracoorte-Lucindale Council representative to the Naracoorte Area Health Advisory Council (NAHAC), Cr Andrew Downward, said the upgrade […]

By Liz Travers Cold weather and winter ills kept a significant number of members home and unable to attend the June Meeting of the Naracoorte Ladies Probus Club. Faye Modra and Judy Biggins were inducted into the Club and members welcomed two visitors to our meeting. Those who were able to attend, enjoyed a morning of friendship and fun. 15 members and two visitors attended. Nicola from FocusOne Health was our guest speaker. Focus One Health provide Care Finder services to the community. Care Finder is an Intensive, short-term, support to help clients understand and access My Aged Care and other community supports. Their team of Care Finders will be able to, support clients to interact with My Aged Care so they can be screened for eligibility, guide clients through the My Aged Care assessment process, attend appointments with them if appropriate. Help clients to understand and connect with other […]

By Nasik Swami A new strategy is being looked at to attract and retain general practitioners and specialists in Naracoorte. Limestone Coast Local Health Network Board chairman Grant King says the strategy will focus on retaining medical graduates in the region. “We need to make sure there is more training, so we continue to work with universities and training providers to work on models,” Mr King said. Mr King said there was a model that was used in the Riverland area where doctors were being trained and retained, and that’s something that all the other regions were looking at. “Often people coming into the region, particularly international medical graduates, work in the region and then move onto the metropolitan areas for a whole lot of reasons, so we need to make sure that we can find a way to keep people in the regions practising longer, and that requires a […]