Immunisation for residents living in community detention
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship has advised that people in community detention should be managed the same way you would manage other community patients. This ensures that the care provided equates with that available to other members of the Australian community. (more…)

Following a review of the existing “blue book” Child Health Record, a new, improved version has been launched. From November 2011 parents of all babies born in Victoria will receive the new booklet, titled My Health and Development Record.
In response to low participation rates for cervical and breast screening, we (with SWISH and SWAT, our voluntary women’s health working groups) engaged the communities of Hepburn Shire in a project called Hepburn Shire Goes Pink For Women’s Health. 
The number of notified cases of pertussis (whooping cough) has increased sharply in Victoria, with a 48% increase occurring between December 2007 and December 2008. There have been 37 notified cases of Pertussis within BDDGP from January 1 to March 6 2009 1. 
