Nominations for Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network’s (MPHN) annual Primary Healthcare Awards opened today, with awards to be presented in the categories of Outstanding Contribution to Leadership in Primary Healthcare, Innovation, Promoting Healthy Living, and Murrumbidgee Grant of the Year.

Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network (MPHN) are inviting older people, their family members and carers to a series of face-to-face consumer and community consultations in July and August to help develop a new aged care program designed to assist older people better access services.

Eight Yenda locals took the opportunity to share their health experiences and concerns at Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network’s (MPHN) Conversations on the Couch session on 29 June 2022.

Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network (MPHN) will be visiting the Murrumbidgee Local Government Area on Thursday 28 July to provide Darlington Point and Coleambally locals an opportunity to share their stories about health to better support the community’s health needs.

Five Boorowa locals took the opportunity to share their health experiences and concerns at Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network’s (MPHN) Conversations on the Couch session on 30 June 2022.

Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network (MPHN) is providing The Rock locals an opportunity to share their stories about health to better support the community’s health needs.

In early June, Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network (MPHN) held a Yarns on the Couch session at the Deniliquin Yarkuwa Knowledge Centre to hear from local Aboriginal people about their health experiences and needs.

Ten Culcairn and eleven Jindera locals took the opportunity to share their health experiences and concerns at Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network’s (MPHN) Conversations on the Couch sessions on 26 and 27 May 2022.

Community-driven and locally based organisations across the Murrumbidgee are encouraged to submit their ideas for one-off grant funding for activities that aim to support population health across the Murrumbidgee region.

Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network (MPHN) is providing Yenda locals an opportunity to share their stories about health to better support the community’s health needs.

In the Murrumbidgee region statistics show fewer males visit their GP for their mental health when compared with the national average. This Men’s Health Week (13 to 19 June), MPHN is encouraging males to prioritise their health.

Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network (MPHN) is seeking feedback on the specific health needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across the Wagga Wagga region to incorporate into its updated Health Needs Assessment (HNA) for the Murrumbidgee region.

This National Bowel Cancer Awareness Month, Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network (MPHN) is reminding people aged 50 to 74 years to participate in the bowel cancer screening test every two years.

Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network (MPHN) is encouraging people living and working across the region to wear their craziest socks to help raise awareness about doctors experiencing mental health issues around the globe this Friday, 3 June 2022 as part of Crazysocks4docs Day.

Twenty two Tumbarumba and ten Batlow locals took the opportunity to share their health experiences and concerns at Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network’s (MPHN) Conversations on the Couch sessions on Thursday 28 and Friday 29 April.

Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network (MPHN) is seeking feedback on the specific health needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across the Deniliquin region this month to incorporate into its updated Health Needs Assessment (HNA) for the Murrumbidgee region.

Four local Murrumbidgee residents have joined with the Murrumbidgee Local Response Group to encourage community members who are in crisis to STOP and pick up the phone as part of a new suicide prevention campaign.

The fundamental work of general practitioners and their contribution to improving community health will be recognised around the globe tomorrow, Thursday 19 May 2022 as part of World Family Doctor Day.

National Volunteer Week celebrates and recognises the vital work of volunteers who are often changing their communities for the better. In the area of health, local communities are represented by volunteer health advocates as members of Local Health Advisory Committees (LHACs) to consider health needs, promote health literacy and wellbeing and provide a voice for planning and evaluation of health services.

Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network (MPHN) is providing Culcairn and Jindera locals an opportunity to share their stories about health to better support the community’s health needs.