Media - Releases
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23 Jan 2020, Media release
LONG HOURS PUTTING PRESSURE ON MENTAL HEALTH OF DOCTORS IN TRAININGThe AMA is calling for urgent action to support doctors in training, with new research showing that long working hours and fatigue are putting the future medical workforce at greater risk of poor mental health and suicide ideation.
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22 Jan 2020, Media release
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SECRETARYThe AMA warmly welcomes today’s announcement that the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Brendan Murphy, will be appointed Secretary of the Department of Health. Dr Bartone also paid tribute to Ms Beauchamp for her services to health and the public service.
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15 Jan 2020, Media release
New bushfire smoke research important -
08 Jan 2020, Media release
LOCAL GPs MUST BE INVOLVED IN FUTURE DISASTER RESPONSE PLANNING - AMAAMA President, Dr Tony Bartone, said today that local community GPs must be involved in future disaster and emergency planning to ensure primary health care is coordinated and ready when disasters like bushfires, floods, and storms devastate suburbs, towns, and farms.
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03 Jan 2020, Media release
New health threats from escalating bushfire crisis -
02 Jan 2020, Media release
Happier 2020 for hundreds thanks to organ donors -
31 Dec 2019, Media release
See in the New Year safely -
27 Dec 2019, Media release
2020 VISION FOR HARDWORKING RURAL DOCTORS – MORE RESOURCES AND BETTER HOSPITALS rural doctors -
26 Dec 2019, Media release
HOLIDAYS A GOOD TIME TO TALK ABOUT END OF LIFE CARE advance care planning -
24 Dec 2019, Media release
KEEP KIDS SUN SAFE THIS SUMMER sun safety -
23 Dec 2019, Media release
CREATE A NEW CHRISTMAS TRADITION - EXTEND A HAND OF FRIENDSHIP loneliness; mental health -
22 Dec 2019, Media release
CHRISTMAS - ‘TIS THE SEASON FOR INCREASED INJURIES Christmas -
20 Dec 2019, Media release
Arrive alive - drive safely over the holidays road safety, holiday season -
19 Dec 2019, Media release
Stay safe during summer heatwaves heatwave, heat exhaustion -
16 Dec 2019, Media release
Relaxing pharmacy ownership laws would benefit patients pharmacy, dispensing, pharmacy ownership -
12 Dec 2019, Media release
Clinical support time for doctors means better care for patients -
11 Dec 2019, Media release
Figures show public hospitals need urgent funding -
11 Dec 2019, Media release
Innovation key to putting care back in aged care -
03 Dec 2019, Media release
National Alcohol Strategy should include tax reform alcohol, alcohol-related violence, volumetric tax -
22 Nov 2019, Media release
NO MORE DECAY – OUR HEALTH SYSTEM FAILS OUR INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIESGood dental and oral health is fundamental to overall health and wellbeing, yet the state of oral health among the Indigenous community is unacceptable, and there are fewer than 100 Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander dental practitioners in Australia, a new AMA Report Card has found.
Indigenous health