Latest news: Canberra Health Services

Canberra Health Services teams have selected three wellbeing initiatives under the Health Workforce Wellbeing and Recovery Fund.

A brand new, purpose-built Maternity Assessment Unit and a new Gynaecology Day Unit are ready to welcome their first patients tomorrow.

A new Child and Adolescent Clinical Services Expert Panel will plan and improve healthcare services for Canberra’s children and young people.

Medical transcriptionists at Canberra Hospital, the CPSU claims, will be replaced with a software voice to text program. 

The Canberra Liberals have called on the ACT Government to urgently establish an independent review of the Territory’s paediatric services following the deaths of several children in the past two years.

The Canberra Liberals have accused the ACT Government of falling well short of its emergency and elective surgery goals.

Canberra Health Services has officially received its three-year accreditation from the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards.

ACT Health has identified two cases of monkeypox in ACT residents. 

As patients face long waits at emergency departments and hospitals, Canberra Health Services urges the public to consider alternatives.

Winter will bring the dual challenges of COVID-19 and influenza – putting further strain on Canberra's overburdened public health system.

Workers are leaving Canberra Health Services (CHS) in droves, and do not recommend their workplace, the Canberra Liberals claim.

Families in the growing Molonglo Valley will now have access to free healthcare at the new Canberra Health Services at Molonglo, which was officially opened today.

A recently opened clinic at the University of Canberra Hospital is helping Canberrans recover from ‘long COVID’.

Canberra Health Services acknowledges that Dhulwa Mental Health Unit is one of its “most challenging health facilities to operate,” but has acted swiftly to address staff concerns, a spokesperson said today in response to criticism by the nurses’ union ANMF following allegations staff were assaulted by inmates.

Patients at the Dhulwa Mental Health Unit are out of control and staff are leaving, claiming the ACT facility is the worst they've worked at.

More than half a million COVID-19 vaccinations have been administered at ACT public clinics since the first was given a year ago today.