A networking and learning opportunity between two rural health services will help improve aged-care health outcomes for Wimmera communities. Yea and District Memorial Hospital board directors and executive staff visited Rural Northwest Health’s Yarriambiack Lodge at Warracknabeal as part of a collaborative learning exercise. Rural Northwest Health chair Julia Hausler said the Yea team was […]
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Life has no pause button – a lesson Horsham boy Braxton Williams’ family learned in devastating fashion in January when he was diagnosed with a brain tumour.

Woodturning enthusiasts from across Victoria are in Ararat gleaning knowledge and information from each other as part of an annual Grampians U-Turn event. Central Western Woodworkers Group, made up of five clubs, meets four times a year and one of the major gatherings is the Grampians U-turn. The event, which started at Ararat Harness Racing […]

Horsham’s Lister House Medical Clinic staff will wear crazy and colourful socks to work on Friday to help raise awareness for medical workers’ mental health. The clinic is joining a worldwide ‘Crazy Socks 4 Docs Day’ campaign for the first time, hoping to start a ‘conversation’ with its light-hearted attire. Clinic nurse manager Amanda Wilson […]
BUTT OUT! Roseallina Clarke, 10, invites Goolum Goolum Aboriginal Co-operative justice worker Andrew ‘Cobba’ Harrison, left, and maintenance crew worker Jordan Secombe to extinguish cigarettes as part of World No Tobacco Day activities in Horsham. The co-operative hosted the community event at Sawyer Park to present people who had given up smoking with awards and […]
A free information session for a ‘transformative’ mental wellbeing program is open to people in the Horsham district tomorrow.
Wimmera women looking for information on contraception, sexual health and pregnancy options now have access to new resource, 1800MyOptions. Wimmera Health Care Group women’s sexual health nurse Sharyn Cook said the new phone and online resource was the result of research into unplanned pregnancy and discussions with GPs. “The research found some rural GPs were […]
Regional prostate cancer specialist nurse Gay Corbett provided insight into her role supporting men with the disease at a Wimmera Prostate Cancer Support Group gathering. She also used the occasion at Horsham RSL to speak about a work-related trip to Canada where she provided Canadians with an understanding of her experience in Australia. Group leader […]
Horsham’s Andrew Sostheim is lacing up his trainers to help a mental-health fundraiser get off to a running start.