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Heart registry aims to save lives
4:00 AM | A STATEWIDE genetic heart registry being rolled out over the next four years will save lives, according to Clifton Craig Medical Research Trust chairman Don McTaggart.
Doctors warn over health cuts
03 Feb 12 | Doctors have warned it will take more than a decade for the health system to recover from the impact of drastic health cuts.   | CommentsComments (5)
Health system warning
02 Feb 12 | DOCTORS have warned it will take more than a decade for the health system to recover from the impact of drastic health cuts.   | CommentsComments (3)
Union says emergency is feeling budget pain
02 Feb 12 | Tasmania's hospital emergency departments are dealing with people left waiting for elective surgery for too long and more patients "rebounding'' after being discharged too early, a parliamentary inquiry has heard.
LGH `managing demand'
02 Feb 12 | THE Launceston General Hospital has been ``managing demand to date'' following ward closures, according to Northern Area Health Service chief executive John Kirwan.   | CommentsComments (1)
45 years as nurse set to come to an end
01 Feb 12 | The Launceston General Hospital's Maree Dakin will retire on Friday after a 45-year career in nursing.  | CommentsComments (5)
Patient waiting times in dire health
31 Jan 12 | Tasmania's public hospital waiting times for elective surgery and emergency treatment are among the poorest in Australia, a Productivity Commission report has shown.  | CommentsComments (5)
Former UTAS medical chief 'highly regarded'
30 Jan 12 | Former University of Tasmania medical school chief and science dean Allan Carmichael has died after a short illness.
Government urged to overhaul aged-care system
30 Jan 12 | AN OVERHAUL of the aged-care system is needed to avoid an imminent crisis, the federal government has been warned.
29 Jan 12 | Health Minister Michelle O'Byrne knows her government's cuts have put her political future in jeopardy, The Sunday Examiner chief reporter ALISON ANDREWS reports.  | CommentsComments (21)
Pervan takes on new health role
29 Jan 12 | FORMER Royal Hobart Hospital chief executive Mike Pervan will take one of the leading jobs under the state's new health model, starting July 1.
Staffing to pain LGH's expanded emergency department
28 Jan 12 | BED capacity at the Launceston General Hospital's emergency department is set to double next week but questions remain over whether the government can afford to fully staff it.   | CommentsComments (8)
Health workers moving from LGH
27 Jan 12 | THE former Drysdale building has become the new home of Health Department employees while the Launceston General Hospital is being redeveloped.  | CommentsComments (4)
Physios needed to fill shortage
25 Jan 12 | LAUNCESTON General Hospital patients may miss out on physiotherapy as the hospital struggles to fill vacancies.
Checkup a click away
23 Jan 12 | MELBOURNE - Cancer patients and the elderly will be able to see their specialist or GP with the click of a mouse, even if they are hundreds of kilometres away.
Family ties strong at hospital
21 Jan 12 | Launceston General Hospital intern Ruth Gauden is still having trouble adjusting to her new position. ``When someone calls for Dr Gauden, I look around for dad,'' she said yesterday.  | CommentsComments (2)
Hospitals meet national targets
21 Jan 12 | Health Minister Michelle O'Byrne yesterday welcomed the latest Health and Human Services progress chart which showed that the state's public hospitals were meeting national elective surgery targets.  | CommentsComments (12)
Plan for home service patients
21 Jan 12 | The Launceston General Hospital's acute care unit has plans for a patient outreach service as one of the options to cover the Hospital in the Home program axed earlier this month.   | CommentsComments (3)
Headspace mural is in the can thanks to artistic team
20 Jan 12 | MORE than 60 cans of paint and eight, hot, sweaty days later, Launceston's Headspace health and wellbeing site for young people has graffiti it wants to share.
20 Jan 12 | NURSES are concerned that the 45 Launceston General Hospital beds stored off-site at a cost of $400 a month will never be returned to service.   | CommentsComments (2)
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