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Local trainee provides mental health support to Warren’s youth on Country
Proud Wiradjuri woman and Warren local, Shaana Daley, is providing much-needed culturally safe and informed mental health support to her community’s youth thanks to a trainee program aimed at improving access to Aboriginal mental health support in Western NSW.
Four Additional Medicare Mental Health Centres to Open in NSW
On Friday 16 August 2024 at the Adult Mental Health Centre in Parramatta, the locations of four additional Medicare Mental Health Centres for NSW were announced. Medicare Mental Health Centres provide free, walk-in support for people struggling or in mental distress, and ongoing care for more complex mental health needs.
WVPHN Launches National Residential Aged Care Home Telehealth Training Program
First major change to MBS Chronic Disease Management items since 2005
The Department of Health and Aged Care has announced major changes to the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items for chronic disease management from 1 November 2024.
The changes recommended by the MBS Review Taskforce, are ˜the first major change to the framework in almost 20 years’.