Walk-in Centres run by Canberra Health Services are open on ANZAC Day - 7:30am to 10pm - no booking needed! They provide free health care for non-life threatening injuries and illnesses for anyone aged 1 year+
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📸 Registered Nurse Kathleen from Gungahlin Walk-in Centre

Thank you to our Immunisation Section who travel all over Canberra every day to deliver lifesaving vaccines to GPs, pharmacies, community health centres and other immunisation providers to protect our community act.gov.au/health/topics/…

#WorldImmunisationWeek

It’s time to get your annual influenza vaccine – it’s one of the best ways to help prevent yourself from becoming seriously unwell 🤒💪🏼💉

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📸 Yulcaila getting her influenza vaccine at Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Services

Gastro causes vomiting and diarrhoea and spreads easily from person to person 💩🤮If you become unwell with gastro, stay at home while you’re unwell, and for 48 hours after symptoms stop. Further tips to stop the spread of gastro on our page 👇act.gov.au/health/topics/…

New Maternity in Focus Workforce Scholarship Scheme is NOW OPEN.

If you’re a midwife, nurse or doctor working in Canberra’s public maternity system workforce, we want to hear from you.

Find out more and apply: health.act.gov.au/about-our.../m…

We recently dropped into Melba Copland Secondary School to chat to year 11 & 12 students about a career in healthcare. There was lots of interest about the different courses and career flexibility.

If you’d like to know more, get in touch with us or chat to your school.

It’s a big year with the opening of the new critical services building and the ACT's first residential treatment centre for eating disorders. Construction will also start on a new health centre in South Tuggeranong and a new hydrotherapy pool in Greenway builtforcbr.act.gov.au/projects/health

There’s still time to submit your abstract for the Canberra Health Annual Research Meeting – CHARM. Charm us with your ideas, just like Patrice Murray (pictured) did last year, who won Best Nursing or Midwifery Poster. Closing date 3 April health.act.gov.au/research/charm…

Capital Chemist Southlands in Mawson is 1 of 15 pharmacies in the ACT who have joined a trial to treat uncomplicated UTIs in women and provide a resupply of the oral contraceptive pill
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📸 Marjan Seyedi, Managing Partner at Capital Chemist Southlands

The 2024 Allied Health Symposium ‘Better care through collaboration’ will be held on Thursday 23 May 2024. If you are an ACT public sector allied health professional or assistant, please save the date for this important event. More information health.act.gov.au/health-profess…

Here’s a sneak peak of the new Critical Services Building at Canberra Hospital in Woden 👷🏗️
Set to open late this year, the 44,000 square metre building will provide a major upgrade and expansion to Canberra Hospital in Woden 🏥
Want to see more?➡️➡️➡️ bit.ly/436np87

Follow our tips if you're a mozzie target 🎯🦟Wear light-coloured long sleeved clothing with shoes and socks 🦟Use repellent, spray or coils when outside🦟Remove or replace water that’s been collected around your home🦟 Screen entrances with mosquito mesh bit.ly/3Tr9GW5

Capital Chemist Kingston has joined the pharmacy trial and can offer treatment for uncomplicated UTIs & resupply the oral contraceptive pill to women who meet the criteria health.act.gov.au/pharmacy-trial
📷 Sandra Ferrington, Capital Chemist Kingston and Chief Pharmacist Amanda Galbraith

Today marks another step closer to a new hydrotherapy pool in Canberra’s south. A traditional smoking ceremony was held and the first sod was turned as we get ready to start construction. The pool will be integrated with Tuggeranong Lakeside Leisure Centre builtforcbr.act.gov.au/projects/healt…

⚠️ Important information from NSW Health ⚠️

For more information, please visit NSW Health's website health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/202…

How often should you get an STI check? We’ll give you a clue, it’s not every leap year ⏰🐸If you’re having sex, you should get checked at least every 12 months (even if you use condoms) and after every new sexual partner. Find out where: health.act.gov.au/services/sexua…