For the lucky ones among us, being 21 means enjoying the first flush of adulthood: moving out of home, getting a job, studying, and exploring the world. For Dr Ivan Zwart, the years from 21 to 35 were an ordeal. During that time, Ivan’s mother was diagnosed with a rare form of dementia and, in…
Encouraging, engaging and empowering. They’re the three words that sum up the north west suicide prevention trial site’s Doing Better Together grants. Nominations for the grants opened in early March, with funding available to help community organisations turn their ideas for a suicide prevention or wellbeing activity into reality. It’s all part of the Tasmanian…
Question: How do you give members of a local community a safe place to chat when they’re scattered up and along Tasmania’s east coast? Answer: You put it on the road. The Safe Place Café is a mobile coffee van that travels to a different part of the Break O’Day region for two days each…
Shortness of breath, blood in one’s urine, skin spots that have started to change shape — they’re things you may already know to look out for as potential early signs of cancer. Even so, building community knowledge about a wide range of early warning signs is critical to helping people seek out medical and treatment…
This year, Primary Health Tasmania made six sponsorships of up to $2000 available to practices nurses from across the state to attend the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association‘s national conference in Adelaide. Ultimately, six practices nurses and one Health Care Homes practice nurse made the trip to South Australia – a professional opportunity that,…
Please note: This tender has now closed. Primary Health Tasmania has opened a tender for psychological treatment services for people with mental illness who are living in residential aged care facilities. The new services are funded by the Australian Government for people with mild to moderate illness, and aim to give residents access to similar…