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Latest news: Rachel Stephen-Smith

ACT Government’s weekly roundup

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

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

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’

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

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

Construction starts on ACT southside hydrotherapy pool

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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