The rise in housing stress is leading to households sacrificing meals and poorer health outcomes.
Housing
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“We just don't have the resources to be able to get to all of those cases in the right time frame.”
Healthcare
The system delivers care to about 1,000 patients a day across Victoria.
The Health Services Union voted to begin industrial action after what it says was a "disrespectful" wage offer from the state government.
The funding will primarily be spent in Baw Baw and Bass Coast Shires.
Bass Coast Shire
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A bill currently before parliament will decrease the number of commissioners from four to one.
Thousands of patients have been left searching for a new doctor after the healthcare service shut down in January.
The initial response to the Federal Government’s extra subsidies to GPs who provide bulk billing has been positive. But is it the panacea GPs need?
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The infection can cause symptoms such as joint pain and tiredness for many months.
Wellington Shire
The chronic and complex condition affects about one in seven Australian women.
A local resident queried the remit of council, but councillor Suzanne Allen spoke up for Live4Life.
Council
How long have you waited to get a GP or specialist healthcare appointment? Gippsland candidates promise to fix the region's healthcare disparity.
Election
Ten percent of Gippsland residents experience ‘high mental stress’. Politicians of all stripes are promising to do better.
Healthcare and bulk billing a primary concern for Gippsland at the election box.
“People living in rural and remote Australia have substantially higher levels of preventable hospitalisations, burden of disease, and avoidable deaths.”
Residents have been waiting for the new West Gippsland Hospital for over a decade, will a federal election finally make an improved health facility a possible?
Gippsland
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