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Making yourself a priority
Cobar Community Health staff held an information day and barbecue at Drummond Park on Friday to mark Women’s Health Week. Healthy women make for healthy families, and during Women’s Health Week, women were being reminded to make themselves and their health a priority. Women’s Health Nurse Rachael Slinger (pictured above […]
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Local medical services benefit from Louth racegoers’ rubbish
Drinkers at this year’s Louth Races may not have known that they would be indirectly contributing to the purchase of medical equipment. Avid can collectors for charity, Rob Collingridge and Rachael Slinger, who have been collecting locally for more than a year, were recently invited by the Louth Races committee […]
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Outreach clinic gives locals access to family planning service
Reproductive and sexual health information, advice and services are now available to local residents through an outreach clinic conducted each month in Cobar by Family Planning NSW. Cobar patients may consult a visiting doctor or nurse about a range of subjects including: contraceptives; fertility issues; pregnancy testing and pregnancy options; […]
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World No Tobacco Day has a focus on second-hand smoke
Last Friday was World No Tobacco Day with local Community Health staff joining in with the Western NSW Local Health District (WNSLHD) to help promote the importance of a smoke-free lifestyle. Statistics show that despite declining rates of smoking in Australia, tobacco smoking still remains the leading cause of disease […]
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Can collection project doing good things for local health
A local project to recycle cans and bottles is not only helping to save the environment, it’s also going a step further and helping sick people in our community. Over the past year Rob Collingridge has been collecting ‘for a cause’ and last month he reached his target of $5,700 […]
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Celebrating our nurses
Cobar Hospital and Cobar Community Health Nurses last week celebrated International Nurses Day, which is marked annually on May 12, Florence Nightingale’s birthday). The staff, who between them have over 600 years combined of nursing experience, came together to celebrate with afternoon tea last Friday. Pictured are Tarra Moore, Karen […]
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