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Find out about the latest news and developments from around our health service.

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  • Champions Program a boost for Aboriginal health 11 March 2026 WA Country Health Service has inducted its first cohort of participants into a new Aboriginal Health Champions Program.
  • Access Health WA launched to help Western Australians navigate healthcare options 10 March 2026 Access Health WA has been launched to ensure Western Australians have consistent, timely, and accurate information about appropriate healthcare options across WA.
  • Manjimup medical staff celebrate gong for local legend 06 March 2026 Manjimup staff have celebrated an outstanding milestone of half a century of service by a legendary local practitioner.
  • Yellow heatwave tile with the words 'Advice - Threat is reduced' and 'South of Coral Bay, Lake MacLeod, Lyndon and Minilya.
    Heatwave Advice - Midwest Gascoyne 05 March 2026 Current as at 10:30am, Thursday 5 March 2026. Heatwave Advice - THREAT IS REDUCED The extreme heatwave warning has been downgraded to an advice level warning for areas south of Coral Bay, Lake MacLeod, Lyndon and Minilya. Heatwave conditions have eased, and temperatures in these areas are returning to typical summer levels. Current as at 08:30am, Wednesday 4 March 2026. Heatwave Watch and...
  • Left photo: Doctor in scrubs with a wide brim hat in front of hospital. Right photo: Same doctor is casual shirt with stunning landscape behind.
    Karratha Community Residency Program prepares Dr Joshua Jones for General Practice 05 March 2026 For metropolitan-based Resident Medical Officer Dr Joshua Jones, undertaking rural rotation through the Community Residency Program (CRP) has expanded his skills in a different setting.

More WACHS News

  • Pilbara Virtual Gestational Diabetes Service supports country mums 06 December 2023 The Pilbara Virtual Gestational Diabetes Service, provided by WA Country Health Service in collaboration with Diabetes WA, has been named a finalist in the WA Health Excellence Awards.
  • Harvey Hospital patients can paint like Picasso with new donations 05 December 2023 The creativity at WA Country Health Service’s Harvey Hospital keeps flowing with volunteer group ‘Harvey Bizee Hands’ donating art supplies towards the hospital’s activities program.
  • GP Psychiatry Phone Line providing excellent support to the Great Southern 05 December 2023 WA Country Health Service and WA Primary Health Alliance’s (WAPHA) General Practitioner Psychiatry Phone Line is a resource available to GPs seeking assistance on specialist mental health queries in a primary setting.
  • Population health teams and sentinel chickens help fight the bite across the Goldfields 04 December 2023 Our public health workforce recently got to grips with how to draw blood samples from sentinel chickens as part of WA Health’s routine flavivirus surveillance.
  • Mental Health Co-Response goes two for two at Health Excellence Awards 04 December 2023 A collaboration between WA Country Health Service, WA Police and the Mental Health Commission has seen an 80 per cent reduction in the number of mental health patients taken to South West Emergency Departments.
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Last Updated: 24/01/2024
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