Category: Latest News
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Stay Strong This Flu Season
Flu season is here — but the good news? You can take action now to protect yourself and your loved ones. Prevention is your best defence, and it starts with good hygiene, getting vaccinated, supporting your immune system, and looking after your body and mind. Good Hygiene: Your First Line of Defence This Flu Season…
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Celebrating National Reconciliation Week Through Art and Cultural Connection
As part of our commitment to reconciliation and cultural learning, Hunter Primary Care was honoured to host a special art workshop during National Reconciliation Week 2025, guided by the Aboriginal Women’s Art Group from Muloobinba Aboriginal Corporation’s Nikinpa Centre. The workshop invited staff to paint individual gum leaves, each representing a personal reflection on reconciliation.…
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We’re Pushing for Better Mental Health
This June, Hunter Primary Care and headspace Newcastle are taking on The Push-Up Challenge to raise awareness and vital funds for mental health. Together, we’ll be completing 3,214 push-ups in 23 days – representing the number of lives lost to suicide in Australia in 2023. As a health and wellbeing organisation committed to supporting the…
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NDIS Level 2 Support Coordination Transition
Hunter Primary Care remains committed to delivering high-quality services to NDIS participants. However, after careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to transition out of NDIS Level 2 Support Coordination services. Services will officially conclude on 27th June 2025. This decision has been driven by the diminishing financial viability of the service, largely due…
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Close the Gap Day 2025
Close the Gap Day is celebrated on the third Thursday of March each year and aims to bring people together to share information and most importantly, to take meaningful action in support of achieving health equality for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people by 2032. Hunter Primary Care’s March monthly staff meeting was hosted by…
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World Social Work Day
This year’s theme for World Social Work Day is ‘Strengthening Intergenerational Solidarity for Enduring Wellbeing,’ a theme that reflects the core of our work here at Hunter Primary Care. In honour of World Social Work Day, Andrew, Social Worker from our NDIS & Chronic Disease team, kindly gifted Hunter Primary Care with a framed copy…
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Expanding Clinical Support to Future Aged Care Nurses
Hunter Primary Care is proud to be delivering the highly successful Aged Care Nursing Clinical Placements Program, supported by funding from the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care. Since launching the program in 2023, our team have provided over 180 nursing students with hands-on clinical experience in aged care in the Hunter, New…
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Parkinson’s Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
Hunter Primary Care’s Kerry Turnbull, Registered Nurse, was recently invited to attend the launch of the new Parkinson’s MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) developed by The Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, and The Menzies Institute for Medical Research at the University of Tasmania. Both Kerry and her father feature in the MOOC. “It was…
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Now offering Coordinated Respiratory Support to Residents of the Muswellbrook LGA
Hunter Primary Care is pleased to announce our new Coordinated Respiratory Support pilot program. This program is fully funded by the Primary Health Network and is available to residents of the Muswellbrook LGA. The program brings together a mix of local accredited healthcare professionals from varying clinical fields, working together as a comprehensive respiratory care…
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Join our Bite-Sized Allied Health Insights Series
Are you looking to gain confidence in supporting NDIS participants with informed choice and control when it comes to appropriate NDIS providers? Wouldn’t it be great to meet the allied health providers before supporting a referral or recommendation? We understand how important it is to recommend providers who align with your participants’ values and offer…