Latest issue of Primary Health Matters magazine out now

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 (July 2024) you’ll find the following stories:

• Virtual services yield real results (Christian Homes Tasmania)
• ‘Care finder’ Heather helps Robin navigate support (Council on the Ageing)
• Embracing end of life through death cafés (Tasman Neighbourhood Houses)
• The video faces of help in end-of-life care (Care beyond Cure)
• Community in profile: Dorset
• A successful script for supporting vulnerable Tasmanians (Moreton Group Medical Service)
• From India to the Beaconsfield Family Medical Practice
• Growing vegetables and social connection in truwana/Cape Barren Island’s greenhouse (Cape Barren Island Aboriginal Association Inc.)
• How Aboriginal health workers are making a difference on truwana (Department of Health)
• How people with chronic conditions are connecting through movement (Royal Flying Doctors Service)
• Get to know: Dr Alex John at Ochre Health Flinders Island

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.