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Latest news: Rachel Stephen-Smith

ACT Government’s weekly roundup

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Record-breaking tourist numbers; Canberra Health Services's research; a dragon boat facility; a playgroup for detainees' children; and more.

ACT’s new assisted reproduction act

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The ACT Government has legislated increased protections for people who access and are conceived using assisted reproductive technology (ART).

ACT Government: Amendment ‘step forward’ for child protection

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The Children and Young People Amendment Bill 2024 (No. 2) was introduced in the ACT Legislative Assembly today.

New operating theatres for Canberra Hospital ‘a milestone’

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Canberra Hospital’s Critical Services Building will open later this year, and 22 new operating theatres have been completed.

Take-up of ACT financial assistance for student nurses encouraging

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More than 200 nursing, midwifery and allied health students have been approved for a Study Incentive Program.

Construction starts on ACT southside hydrotherapy pool

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Monarch Building Solutions is "diving straight into" the construction of the hydrotherapy pool at the Lakeside Leisure Centre in Greenway.

Commissioner to protect ACT’s Indigenous children begins her term

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The ACT’s first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People Commissioner began her five-year term today.

Demolition of Canberra Hospital admin buildings begins

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The ACT Government will demolish two buildings at Canberra Hospital to make way for a new facility for pathology and other clinical services. 

Passionate graduates join Canberra Health Services

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More than 360 new graduate health professionals have joined Canberra Health Services this year, minister Rachel Stephen-Smith announced.

ACT Legislative Assembly’s first sitting week of 2024

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Light rail, hospital wait times, and cost of living were once more debated in the ACT Legislative Assembly's first sitting week for 2024.

ACT sets up voluntary assisted dying taskforce

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The ACT Government will establish a Voluntary Assisted Dying Implementation taskforce to prepare the health system and health workforce.

More funding for ACT Indigenous advisory group

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The ACT Government will invest $1.19 million over three years in the ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elected Body. 

Canberra Liberals: Emergency department wait times must be fixed

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ACT health minister Rachel Stephen-Smith must ensure ED patients are seen within clinically acceptable times, the Canberra Liberals say.

Independent review to tackle ACT’s Indigenous imprisonment crisis

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Professor Lindon Coombes, academic and former policy advisor, will conduct an independent review into First Nations overrepresentation.

ROGS 2022-23: ACT emergency department waiting times

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For the fourth year in a row, the ACT had the longest emergency department waiting times in the country, ROGS data shows.

ACT Government infrastructure: Education and health

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Canberra's newest public school, a new radiotherapy machine for cancer patients, equipment for CIT Woden, and a proposed new facility.
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