Primary Health Tasmania has released updated ‘community health checks’, providing a detailed snapshot of health and wellbeing across Tasmania’s 29 local government areas. The checks bring together latest data from a range of sources to describe key aspects of population, health risk factors, mental health, immunisation rates, hospital admissions, causes of death and more. Each profile presents local data alongside Tasmanian…
We are seeking applications for the following position: This role attracts not-for-profit salary packaging as well as other benefits including generous leave and family care benefits; discounted private health insurance; and access to the Fitness Passport program (cost-effective gym membership). Hybrid working options (blend of working from the office and home) are available after a…
Primary Health Tasmania has released a tender seeking experienced providers to establish and operate a statewide Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) Centre of Excellence in Tasmania. This statewide centre will provide clinical education, outreach clinics to regional and remote areas, and provide no-cost LARC services to patients. This tender will close at 2pm (Australian Eastern Standard…
Primary Health Tasmania is offering eligible organisations the opportunity to apply for a grant of up to $75,000 to support activities that help older Tasmanians aged over 60 and Aboriginal people aged over 45, to age healthily while living in the community. These small grants are designed to help expand the range and accessibility of…
Primary Health Tasmania has opened a tender seeking experienced providers to deliver the Connected Care – Mental Health service across the northern, north-western and southern regions of Tasmania. This new service will provide coordinated, evidence-based mental health support aligned to the following levels of care: Primary Health Tasmania will commission one organisation per region. An organisation may choose to use shared delivery arrangements with…
People living in the Burnie area now have access to free walk-in mental health support in the form of a new Medicare Mental Health Centre. Friendly centre team members Andrea (left) and Allison The Burnie Medicare Mental Health Centre has opened at an interim site at 52-56 Bass Highway in Cooee, alongside the Burnie GP…