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Celebrating Canberra’s outstanding nurses and midwives
Nurses and midwives across the ACT Health system have been recognised for their professionalism, innovation, and commitment to providing high quality, person centred healthcare.
Minister for Health Rachel Stephen-Smith congratulated the winners of the 2021 Nursing and Midwifery Excellence Awards which celebrate and recognise the work our nurses and midwives do each day to contribute to the health and wellbeing of the Canberra community.
“More than 7,000 nurses and midwives in the ACT have been incredible in responding to the challenges of the past year, working to maintain services in a constantly evolving healthcare environment.
Lockdowns, rubble, statues and green beans… not a bad “Seven Days”, says
IAN MEIKLE
IT’s been a year since the World Health Organization called COVID-19 a pandemic and a year to this edition since the ACT, like the rest of Australia, fell bewilderingly into lockdown.
Ian Meikle.
Now we know what a coronavirus is and I have seen Australia described as “armchair virus watchers”. The Lucky Country indeed, with a world reeling from a year of more than 117.4 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than 2.6 million deaths.
I topped the front cover of the March 19, 2020, edition with the heading: “Virus crisis: What the hell?” As in what the hell was happening?
ACT Legislative Assembly.
THE 2020-21 Budget, handed down this afternoon (February 9), outlines investments across every region in the ACT. With a key focus on education, construction and health, here’s a breakdown on where the funding will go…
CENTRAL CANBERRA: For
central Canberra, including the inner north and inner south, the big funding commitment in this budget will be the
$2.1 million allocated for work to begin on extending the light rail network from Alinga Street to Commonwealth Park as part of the city to Woden light rail project.
Funding of
$400,000 is allocated for detailed planning and design work for a new home for Dragon Boating ACT at Grevillea Park to allow the club to increase members in the growing sport and participate in local, interstate and international events.