Dr Bruce Shepherd’s Obituary

Dr Bruce Shepard
Vale Dr Bruce Dalway Shepherd, AM (26/10/1932 – 25/05/2018) Bruce Dalway Shepherd was born at the height of the Great Depression on 26/10/1932 in the NSW country town of Tamworth.  It was a difficult birth. His mother Mary (a former trainee nurse at the Coast Hospital in Sydney) would have died of post-partum haemorrhage had
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APRA Releases Quarterly Private Health Insurance Statistics for Sep 2017

APRA Quarterly Private Health InsuranceReport
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) today released its quarterly private health insurance statistics publications for the September 2017 quarter. The publications provide industry aggregate summaries of key financial and membership statistics for the private health insurance industry. Key performance statistics for the private health insurance industry in the year ended 30 September 2017: See
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Accreditation Systems Review ASA Submission

Accreditation Systems Review ASA
ASA submission to the ‘Independent review of accreditation systems within the National Registration and accreditation scheme for health professionals’ Draft report September 2017 The ASA welcomes the opportunity to respond to this draft report from Professor Michael Woods. This ASA response is being submitted on the 16th October, 2017 as Australia celebrates National Anaesthesia Day.
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Accreditation Systems Review – Submission

Accreditation Systems Review
The Council of Procedural Specialists supports the concerns of Prof Nicholas Talley, Chair of the Council of Presidents of Medical Colleges (CPMC). Talley said “the objectives of the National Registration and Accreditation scheme, in particular the protection of the public through the provision of high quality education and training and rigorous assessment of standards, will
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Sad Loss For Australian Medicine

Box Hill Hospital
“The death of Melbourne cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr Patrick Pritzwald-Stegmann is a painful loss to his family, his patients and to Australian medicine, ” Dr Gary Speck AM, Chairman of the Council of Procedural Specialists said in Melbourne today. “I know that doctors across Australia will be shocked at his death from injuries he received in
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Day Hospitals Australia National Conference 2017

Day Hospitals National Conference
Day Hospitals Australia empowers health professionals with support, resources and a truly representative voice. We have listened carefully to your needs and devised a conference program that addresses key topics concerning the medical industry and its practitioners. Reasons why you should attend this program: Inspirational Speakers | Concurrent sessions on topical and diverse subjects geared
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Attack on Melbourne Cardiothoracic Surgeon Condemned

Box Hill Hospital
President of the Council of Procedural Specialists, Dr Gary Speck AM, has condemned an attack on Melbourne Heart Surgeon Dr Patrick Pritzwald-Stegmann, which took place in the foyer of Box Hill Hospital in Victoria at 7:20 pm yesterday. “I know I speak for all procedural specialists across Australia when I say that our thoughts and
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