Cancer Australia has launched the Partnerships for culturally safe cancer care grant program, a new $16.9 million initiative aimed at accelerating the delivery of culturally safe cancer care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia.

The Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care is seeking help from healthcare providers to increase participation in the national cancer screening programs. 

Bowel cancer is Australia’s second biggest cancer killer, but if detected early, more than 90 per cent of cases can be successfully treated.

Funded by Queensland Health and delivered by Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN), the Cancer Screening Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) program was designed to support healthcare professionals in increasing participation in the National Cancer Screening Program.

The most effective and quick way to clean up your practice’s data is to ensure that results are sent to you electronically.

The University of Melbourne is seeking feedback from primary care providers, in the form of a short five-minute online survey, to guide the potential roll out of proposed changes to self-collection cervical screening.

The Department of Health has commenced a project which will pilot alternative forms of communications for people identified as very under-screened or never-screened for the National Cervical Screening Program (NCSP) (over one million people).

June is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month, which highlights that although Bowel Cancer is one of the most treatable types of cancer, it is still claiming 103 Australian lives every week.

The National Cancer Screening Register has released a portal for healthcare providers to allow access to information about participant screening.

The National Cancer Screening Register (NCSR) has released a portal for healthcare providers to allow access to information about participant screening.