Issue 17 of our Primary Health Matters magazine

Primary Health Tasmania’s twice-yearly magazine aims to capture real stories from our work, that of our commissioned providers, and others in the Tasmanian primary health, aged care and social care spaces.

In the latest issue (December 2023) you’ll find the following stories:

• Cultural awareness aids best-practice care (Karadi and TAZREACH)
• Social worker removes barriers to diabetes care (Diabetes Australia – Tasmania)
• Boosting health skills in rural Tasman
• Footy, weather and mental health in the barber’s chair
• Collaborative care turns the page for Tumanako (Launceston Head to Health)
• Community in profile: Kentish
• ‘Lucky stars’ and integrated care save Michael (No. 34 Aboriginal Health Service)
• Nurse practitioners, paramedics lead urgent and after-hours care (Cygnet Family Practice)
• Workforce health and wellbeing: John Street Medical and Bodysystem physiotherapy
• Get to know: Dr Annette Barrett and the DRS4DRS service

To request a printed copy of the magazine or to access earlier issues, please send us a message.

If you’d like to reproduce any of the magazine’s stories, with appropriate permissions, please email the Primary Health Tasmania communications team.