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Medipeople has the privilege this year to travel around various places in Australia and New Zealand to attend conferences in Podiatry, Physiotherapy and Audiology.
We are very happy to have met a number of you at these conferences and looking forward to meet you at upcoming ones.
At each of these conferences, we are giving away one $500 Gift Card for Accommodation at any Peppers Lodge to one lucky prize draw winners. So make sure you visit our Medipeople stall.
CONGRATULATIONS to the following winners!
APodA SA State Conference Tri Ngo
Physiotherapy NZ Conference Birgit Wurzer
NZ Audiology Society Conference Virginia Good
Please contact us now if you have not already been contacted. We would like to confirm your details prior to sending out your gift card.
AUSTRALIA’S dependence on imported doctors and nurses – which faces rising international criticism – will continue to grow without reforms in supply and use of local graduates, the first national report on the health workforce says.
The report by HealthWorkforce Australia shows in recent years Australia has imported more doctors than it has produced local medical graduates.
That is despite endorsement eight years ago by health ministers of the goal of ”national self-sufficiency” in health workforce supply.
The report was released after yesterday’s meeting of state and federal health ministers, who warned that ”without strong reform intervention these estimates will mean services may be unsustainable”.
The ministers gave their support to the prosect of big changes in the working scope of doctors and nurses which is likely to include increased use of assistants and technology such as ehealth.
Physiotherapists with the proper training will be well suited to take on limited prescribing rights, says the Australian Physiotherapy Association.
Melissa Locke, president of the APA, said a Health Workforce Australia proposal to give physios prescribing rights for a limited range of medication would be a major advantage in Australia, where it can take over 6 weeks to access a GP for non urgent issues.
“The APA’s position is we have an ageing population with an increase in chronic disease, we have an ageing health workforce, and there are points of tension in the country in terms of access to medical practitioners, so there needs to be innovations in reforms of the health workforce,” Ms Locke said.
The findings from the National Dental Telephone Interview Survey 2008 that indicate low income earners and concession card holders are most likely to avoid or delay visiting the dentist because of cost proves yet again that Australia needs a targeted and means tested dental scheme to help those people most in need.
PEOPLE who get regular dental X-rays are more likely to suffer a common type of brain tumour, US researchers have discovered.
The study in the US journal Cancer showed people diagnosed with meningioma who reported having a yearly bitewing exam were 1.4 times to 1.9 times as likely as a healthy control group to have developed such tumours.
A bitewing exam involves an X-ray film being held in place by a tab between the teeth.
Also, people who reported getting a yearly panorex exam – in which an X-ray is taken outside the mouth and shows all the teeth on one film – were 2.7 to three times more likely to develop cancer, the study said.
Wangaratta residents are waiting more than twice as long as the rest of the state for public dental services.
Victorian Health Services performance data shows the average time for general dental care at Northeast Health Wangaratta (NHW) was a staggering 38 months. The average waiting time for general dental care across the state is 17 months and closest neighbors Albury Wodonga Health wait an average of just 12 months.
Northeast Health Wangaratta chief executive officer Margaret Bennett said triaged category one and two patients were being seen within the benchmark waiting times of either 24 hours for category one seven days for category two. “It should be noted that all our priority groups of patients such as children, special needs, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and pregnant women are all provided with appointments upon contacting the clinic,” Ms Bennett said.
Two types of fluoride varnish that are frequently prescribed to ameliorate white spot lesions (WSL) did not provide a significantly better result than normal home care in a study presented last week at the American Association for Dental Research (AADR) annual session in Tampa, FL.
Over an eight-week period, MI Paste Plus (GC America) and PreviDent (Colgate Professional) fluoride varnish did not outperform the control group using no active agent, the researchers concluded.
“On average, Colgate or Crest (toothpaste) is as good as anything,” said Greg Huang, DMD, chair of the department of orthodontics at the University of Washington’s School of Dentistry.
For the past few years, proponents of barefoot running have argued that modern athletic shoes compromise natural running form.
But now a first-of-its-kind study suggests that in the right circumstances, shoes make running physiologically easier than going barefoot.
“A novice barefoot runner moves very differently than someone who’s used to running barefoot,” said Rodger Kram, a professor of integrative physiology at the University of Colorado, who oversaw the study. “We wanted to look at runners who knew what they were doing, whether they were wearing shoes or not.”
Doctors who trained in the United Kingdom but have chosen to work in New Zealand often stay in their adopted country because of higher levels of job satisfaction and a preference for the lifestyle, a study in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine has reported (2012;105:25-34, doi:10.1258/jrsm.2011.110146).
Almost nine in 10 (89%) of the 282 UK trained doctors living in New Zealand who responded to the authors’ survey said that they intended to stay in the country, although only 30% had originally intended to emigrate permanently.
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Please join us for the 2012 Victorian State Conference at the Novotel Forest Resort in Creswick. Creswick lies at the heart of the central goldfields, just 16 kms from Ballarat and the neighbouring iconic tourism regions of Daylesford, the Hepburn spa country, and the MacedonRanges.
Come and say hello to our dedicated podiatry recruitment team.
