A select group of patients who present with fractures to  a hospital in Sydney, New South Wales, is getting help to avoid making the same mistakes again. Melissa Mitchell looks at the success of a new refracture prevention program underway at Liverpool Hospital.

In her role as a senior physiotherapist with the Queensland Interdisciplinary Paediatric Persistent Pain Service (QIPPPS) at Queensland Children’s Hospital, Bec Fechner supports children and their families to understand the biopsychosocial complexity of persistent pain.

Since February, the Oncology Exercise Group (OEG) has been running twice a week for eight weeks for people who are deconditioned as a result of their cancer or treatment. It is open to people before, during or up to one year after treatment. Initial outcomes for patients are positive, with 50 referrals since launch.

The Hospital in the Home program is a community acute and post-acute care service operating at the Sydney Children’s Hospital and The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. Some major tertiary paediatric hospitals have a variation of the public health service but the concept is still relatively new.

Helping tradespeople understand just how much physiotherapy can assist them recover from injury and how physiotherapists can help educate them about work-related injury avoidance techniques are the foci of this month’s Tradies National Health Month.

On 1 July 2018, changes to the way businesses report information to the ATO will come into effect. Specifically, businesses with more than 20 employees are now required to report the tax and super information to the ATO each time they pay their employees. 

It is now time for businesses with less than 20 employees to ensure they are Single Touch Compliant from 1 July 2019.