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Name: Queensland Health

First reported 4 mins ago - Updated 4 mins ago - 1 reports

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Reports miners not told about measles outbreak

NO NEW measles cases have been reported in Moranbah after an outbreak was declared earlier this week, a hospital spokeswoman confirmed.But more may still appear, as the virus has a 10-day incubation period.Queensland Health was working this week to contact ... [Published Fraser Coast Chronicle - 4 mins ago]

Entities: Mineral, Queensland Health, BHP Billiton Plc, Workers, Mercury

First reported 56 mins ago - Updated 56 mins ago - 1 reports

Fat chance of action

THERE is no better indicator that you are getting old than by looking at how many overweight kids there are in your school photo. I must be ancient, because in my primary school, there was only one or two kids who were larger than average, in the entire ... [Published Townsville Bulletin - 56 mins ago]

Entities: Obesity, Ministry of Food, Queensland Health

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

Diabetes disaster strikes our youth

HEALTH practitioners are calling for immediate Government intervention following Townsville children as young as 10 being diagnosed with diabetes.Townsville's population is officially the fattest in the state, according to Queensland Health figures, with ... [Published Townsville Bulletin - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Diabetes, Obesity, Disaster, Epidemic, Queensland Health

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports

Bound to their beds

Source: The Courier-Mail DISABLED Queenslanders are being left to live in public hospitals for up to a year as the Newman Government struggles to clear an almost 2000-long waiting list for supported accommodation. Disability groups say the problem of ... [Published Brisbane Courier-Mail - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Disability, Queensland Health, Patient

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

Queensland Health

Hunt continues for people exposed to drug-resistant TB

Queensland Health is still searching for people in the state's far north who may have been exposed to a multi-drug resistant strain of tuberculosis (TB).Last month, a woman died in Cairns Base Hospital while being treated for TB.Chief health officer Jeannette ... [Published Efficient Farming - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Jeannette Young, Queensland Health, Tuberculosis

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Queensland Health Officials Looking for 400 Measles-Infected Expectants

A measles outbreak in the mining hub of Moranbah can be spread all over the nation. The authorities are in a hunt for the 400 people that might have possessed a potential exposure to the virus and may have flown or driven out of the north Queensland ... [Published TopNews New Zealand - May 23 2013]

Entities: Queensland Health, Thailand, Virus

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

A-G considers changing stillbirth investigation laws

Queensland Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie says he would consider changing laws to allow the coroner to investigate stillbirths.Gladstone woman Emma Green says she was turned away from the Rockhampton hospital several times, even after her full-term unborn ... [Published Campus Daily Australia - May 23 2013]

Entities: Inquest, Miscarriage, Investigation, Jarrod Bleijie, Queensland Health

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Nurses' union attacks plan to recover wage overpayments

The Queensland Nurses Union (QNU) says a scheme to automatically recover wage overpayments from health staff is an attack on their industrial rights.Queensland Health will trial the scheme in July on the Gold and Sunshine coasts, and in the children's ... [Published ABC Online - May 23 2013]

Entities: Queensland Health, Queensland Nurses' Union

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 2 reports

Former Rocky MP to face Health Payroll inquiry next week

Topics: anna bligh, paul lucas, payroll inquiry, queensland health, robert schwartenHave your say »Related Items» Queensland Health payroll inquiry beginsRobert Schwarten says his department will overhaul CorpTech.FORMER Rockhampton MP and former premier ... [Published NewsMail - May 23 2013]

Entities: Robert Schwarten, Paul Lucas, Anna Bligh, Queensland Health

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Obesity to cost more than $100m a year

THE laidback tropical lifestyle is killing Townsville, and bleeding our wallets dry.Health experts have warned unless there is serious intervention from State and Federal governments, the rising cost of the city's obesity epidemic could reach $118 million ... [Published Townsville Bulletin - May 22 2013]

Entities: Obesity, Queensland Health, Stephen Roberts, Dietetics

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 4 reports

Move to automatically dock health worker overpayments

Queensland Health workers who are overpaid will soon have their wages docked automatically.Health Minister Lawrence Springborg says staff will be given 14 days to question the overpayment and 28 days until the repayment commences.Mr Springborg has told ... [Published ABC Online - May 22 2013]

Entities: Lawrence Springborg, Workers, Queensland Health

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Measles outbreak may spread across the state

Queensland Health holds grave fears the measles outbreak which started in Moranbah last week may spread across the state. ... [Published Daily Mercury News - May 22 2013]

Entities: Measles, Queensland Health

Quotes

The commercial space where the free rent is being offered is at the Airport Service Centre. "Knight Frank Fraser Coast is confident that the planned investments in this area of the Fraser Coast by both public and private groups, is a sure sign of better things to come" Mr Winney said. Anyone wanting to discuss the offer further can phone Knight Frank Fraser Coast on 4124 4941

Free rent offer for doctors to come to the Fraser Coast [Published Fraser Coast Chronicle - 2 hours ago]

"We probably need to increase our expenditure on population health ... whether that comes from either the Federal Government or the State Government."

Diabetes disaster strikes our youth [Published Townsville Bulletin - 4 hours ago]

Health Minister Lawrence Springborg said the problem presented a "challenge" for hospitals. "In some instances, patients continue to be supported by the hospital system when they would be better housed in community care where ... costs would be lower" he said

Bound to their beds [Published Brisbane Courier-Mail - 6 hours ago]

"The last number I got was something like 60 or so out of the 70, 80 or so people, because as we go and contact-trace people, then they give us information about other people, so the number slowly gets bigger" she said

Hunt continues for people exposed to drug-resistant TB [Published Efficient Farming - 18 hours ago]

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Reports miners not told about measles outbreak [Published Fraser Coast Chronicle - 4 mins ago]
Fat chance of action [Published Townsville Bulletin - 56 mins ago]
Free rent offer for doctors to come to the Fras... [Published Fraser Coast Chronicle - 2 hours ago]
Diabetes disaster strikes our youth [Published Townsville Bulletin - 4 hours ago]
Bound to their beds [Published Brisbane Courier-Mail - 6 hours ago]
Hunt continues for people exposed to drug-resis... [Published Efficient Farming - 18 hours ago]
Emma Green to meet with health investigator on ... [Published Gladstone Observer - May 23 2013]
Complaints about medical care skyrocket in Wide... [Published Fraser Coast Chronicle - May 23 2013]
Queensland Health Officials Looking for 400 Mea... [Published TopNews New Zealand - May 23 2013]
Vaccinations bill introduced [Published 4BC - May 23 2013]
Qld property under quarantine after lyssavirus ... [Published Campus Daily Australia - May 23 2013]
Authorities probe tuberculosis death in Cairns [Published Campus Daily Australia - May 23 2013]
North Qld hospital privatisation claims 'lies' [Published Campus Daily Australia - May 23 2013]
A-G considers changing stillbirth investigation... [Published Campus Daily Australia - May 23 2013]
Outsourcing to help clear eye surgery backlog [Published ABC Online - May 23 2013]
State Parliamentary Inquiry into Palliative Car... [Published EHospice - May 23 2013]
Qld doctors told of new vaccines [Published Efficient Farming - May 23 2013]
Qld Health rejects baby syphilis death claims [Published ABC Online - May 23 2013]
Nurses' union attacks plan to recover wage over... [Published ABC Online - May 23 2013]
Big chunk bitten out of dental waiting lists [Published Queensland Government - May 23 2013]
Former Rocky MP to face Health Payroll inquiry ... [Published NewsMail - May 23 2013]
Obesity epidemic could cost Gladstone $33 milli... [Published NewsMail - May 22 2013]
Jo-Ann Miller may end up on "Tarago's roof racks" [Published Queensland Times - May 22 2013]
Experts say cost of obesity in Cairns will swell [Published Cairns Post - May 22 2013]
Innisfail hospital on bug hit list [Published Cairns Post - May 22 2013]
Obesity to cost more than $100m a year [Published Townsville Bulletin - May 22 2013]
Flying doctor hit by staff shortage [Published The North West Star - May 22 2013]
Ex-Qld premier Bligh to front health probe [Published News.net - May 22 2013]
Measles Alert in Central Queensland [Published French Tribune - May 22 2013]
ConTAC to deliver rehab, specialist services fo... [Published Pulse+IT - May 22 2013]

Blogs

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Australia: Statewide alert after Moranbah miner... [Published H5N1 - May 13 2013] Thanks to Shane Granger for tweeting the link to this May 9 report from MiningAustralia.com: Statewide alert after Moranbah miner contracts measles. Excerpt:A state-wide alert has been issued after a central Queensland mine worker contracted measles.There ...
Australia: Not only dengue, but also chikungunya [Published H5N1 - Apr 29 2013] Via The Global Dispatch.com: Queensland Health battles mosquito borne diseases: first dengue fever, now chikungunya fever. Excerpt:Queensland Health has been in a battle with the mosquito borne viral disease, dengue fever since November 2012, in which ...
Postscript: You could make it up [Published Harry's Place - Apr 04 2013] This is a cross post by Paul Canning Somewhat of a validation for my post on how media reports about ‘1200 deaths’ at Stafford Hospital was pulled out ofsomeone’s ass thin air. It’s Paul Taylor in the august London Review of Books on ‘Rigging ...
Australia: XDR-TB on the doorstep [Published H5N1 - Mar 26 2013] Via the Medical Journal of Australia: Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis hovers threateningly at Australia’s door. Excerpt:It was hoped that extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) might never arrive on Australia’s shores. But new cases ...
Peter Costello, Tony Abbott, the Queensland LNP... [Published Larvatus Prodeo - Mar 11 2013] Last week, I had a piece published in Crikey (cross-posted at Croakey) arguing Queensland Health Minister Lawrence Springborg’s privatisation push foreshadowed the Newman government’s embrace of the recommendations of the Costello Audit. John ...