Kim Rusten Macquarie Unit, Orange Health Service – Bloomfield campus, Mental Health Drug & Alcohol services, Western NSW LHD, Locked Bag 6008, Orange NSW 2800.  kim.rusten@health.nsw.gov.au  Background: Our lives are increasingly focussing on computer access via desktop computers, laptops, tablets...

Heidi Manson 1South West HealthCare Ryot Street Warrnambool Vic 3280 hmanson@swh.net.au As part of the 2013-2014 Department of Health Workforce Innovation Grants, South West Healthcare piloted a new Grade 3 Allied Health Assistant (AHA) role in Diabetes Management. Chronic disease,...

The recent review of Mental Health Drug and Alcohol services in WNSWLHD has identified a gap in multidisciplinary input for community mental health consumers. These consumers are at high nutritional risk, often resulting in further physical comorbidities. The dietetic service...

Mr David Butt Chief Executive Officer of National Rural Health Alliance The National Mental Health Commission’s Review of Mental Health Programmes and Services – Contributing Lives, Thriving Communities – highlighted the existing complexity, inefficiency and fragmentation of Australia’s mental health...

Chris McCann Clinical Lead Orthotist/ Prosthetist, Orthotics/Prosthetics Services, Country Health SA local Health Network, Whyalla Hospital & Health Services This presentation outlines the developing story of Trenna, a 26 year old woman who underwent a high trans-femoral amputation to her right leg as...