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30 December 2023
Wujal Wujal clinic assessed as TCHHS focuses on flood recovery
Building experts have conducted an initial assessment of the Wujal Wujal Primary Health Care Centre after it was impacted by major flooding.
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14 December 2023
Major expansion to palliative care service
An award-winning palliative care service which supports people across the Torres Strait, Cape York and Northern Peninsula Area has received a funding boost to bring care even closer to home.
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11 December 2023
Influenza and COVID continue to circulate in region
Cases of influenza and COVID-19 are continuing to circulate across Cape York, the Torres Strait, and the Northern Peninsula Area, as they are across Queensland.
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08 December 2023
New Chief Executive appointed for Torres and Cape health service
A senior executive with broad experience managing health services for First Nations peoples has been appointed as new Chief Executive of the Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service.
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05 December 2023
Acute Post Streptococcal Glomerulonephritis update for Thursday Island
About 75 per cent of children and young people on Thursday Island have received antibiotics to reduce the spread of a highly contagious bacterial skin infection.
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04 December 2023
Men’s and Women’s Health Program
The Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service’s Men’s and Women’s Health Program North has been having a busy year.
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22 November 2023
Acute Post Streptococcal Glomerulonephritis Outbreak on Thursday Island
All children and young people on Thursday Island between the ages of 12 months and 17 years are urged to undertake a course of antibiotics to protect them from a highly contagious bacterial skin infection that can lead to kidney disease if left
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16 November 2023
Thursday Island youth have their say on health services
A group of Thursday Island youths will form part of a new network which will work to improve health service delivery in the community.
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15 November 2023
Taking care of viral infections
We are seeing cases of viral infections right across the Cape York, Torres Strait, and Northern Peninsula Area regions.