Media

The Murrumbidgee LHD Media Unit is responsible for all media inquiries and interviews with Murrumbidgee LHD staff members. The Unit regularly advises on major public health issues and disease outbreaks, through media releases, media conferences and, sometimes, special telephone hotlines.

Contact us

The Media Unit is the primary point of contact for news organisations. Contact us for interviews, speakers and special requests.

Phone number: (02) 6933 9181 or 0412 324 122
Fax number: (02) 6933 9188
Web: http://www.gsahs.nsw.gov.au/list.asp?t=mr&p=16

Media Releases 2012

Obesity In Boys Declining: Survey Of NSW School Children [21 May 2012] [PDF, 129KB]
Bookings Open For Breast Screening In Tumbarumba [9 May 2012] [PDF, 137KB]
First Visit Of Mobile Breast Screen Van To Harden [9 May 2012] [PDF, 119KB]
Using Evidence To Improve Nursing Practice [9 May 2012] [PDF, 126KB]
Murrumbidgee Local Health District To Celebrate International Midwives Day [2 May 2012] [PDF, 118KB]
New Carpark Opens At WWBH [18 April 2012] [PDF, 136KB]
National Recognition For Wagga Wagga Surgeon [18 April 2012] [PDF, 128KB]
Step Out On April Falls Day [27 March 2012] [PDF, 67KB]
The Fight To Beat TB Continues - World TB Day - 24 March [22 March 2012] [PDF, 129KB]
Connecting Your Health Care In Griffith [19 March 2012] [PDF, 74KB]
Recovering After A Disaster [14 March 2012] [PDF, 132KB]
Men's Health Expert Visiting Next Week [12 March 2012] [PDF, 126KB]
Health Warning As Mosquito Numbers On The Rise [12 March 2012] [PDF, 128KB]
Lending A Hand To Quit Smoking [12 March 2012] [PDF, 63KB]
Wagga Flood Recovery Health Advice [7 March 2012] [PDF, 122KB]
Wagga Wagga Flood Update [6 March 2012] [PDF, 125KB]
Evacuation of Urana Multi Purpose Service [5 March 2012] [PDF, 118KB]
Patient Management In Murrumbidgee Local Health District [5 March 2012] [PDF, 119KB]
Changes To Breast Screening In Corowa [5 March 2012] [PDF, 120KB]
Weather Conditions Affecting Water Quality [1 March 2012] [PDF, 124KB]
Getting Active in Albury [8 February 2012] [PDF, 147KB]
Men's Health Expert to Make Another Riverina Visit [6 February 2012] [PDF, 125KB]
Gundagai MPS - Construction Progress [1 February 2012] [PDF, 201KB]
Walking Group Kick Off in Cootamundra [30 January 2012] [PDF, 117KB]
Bookings Open for Breast Screening in Jerilderie [24 January 2012] [PDF, unknown]
Don't Wake Up with a Lasting Hangover on Australia Day [24 January 2012] [PDF, 124KB]
WWBH Car Park Construction Works to Begin [19 January 2012] [PDF, 127KB]
School's Back - Time to Get Your Child Immunised [19 January 2012] [PDF, 119KB]
Bookings Open for Breast Screening in Young [18 January 2012] [PDF, 117KB]
New Medical Recruits Start in Wagga [13 January 2012] [PDF, 120KB]
Director of Medical Services Welcomed to Griffith [12 January 2012] [PDF, 120KB]
Celebrating 49 Years Of Nursing In Leeton [10 January 2012] [PDF, 119KB]
Bookings Open for Breast Screening in Finley [9 January 2012] [PDF, 117KB]
Planning Underway For Tocumwal MPS [6 January 2012] [PDF, 136KB]
Beat The Heat This Summer [3 January 2012] [PDF, 140KB]

Media Releases 2011

Stay Healthy In The Pool This Summer [21 December 2011] [PDF, 121KB]
Beware Of Risky Drinking During The Festive Season [21 December 2011] [PDF, 120KB]
Serving Summer Food Safely [21 December 2011] [PDF, 132KB]
Drive Safe This Festive Season [20 December 2011] [PDF, 120KB]
Fitness Advice For Santa [19 December 2011] [PDF, 120KB]
Bookings Open For Breast Screening In Young [14 December 2011] [PDF, 119KB]
Construction Progress Update - Gundagai MPS [14 December 2011] [PDF, 225KB]
Partners Tackle Depression In Boorowa [14 December 2011] [PDF, 132KB]
Breathe Easy In Griffith [14 December 2011] [PDF, 121KB]
Red Ribbons Grants - promoting World AIDS Day 2011 [29 November 2011] [PDF, 124KB]
New Arrangements For Health Services [28 November 2011] [PDF, 119KB]
WWBH Staff Briefings And Work On New Carpakr Starts Soon [25 November 2011] [PDF, 121KB]
Gundagai MPS On Schedule [23 November 2011] [PDF, 122KB]
Get Active In Junee [21 November 2011] [PDF, 119KB]

Graduation of Emergency Care Nurses [15 November 2011] [PDF, 122KB]
New Mums Should Just Speak Up [15 November 2011] [PDF, 122KB]
Check Your Lung Fitness [14 November 2011] [PDF, 123KB]
Get Active In Albury [8 November 2011] [PDF, 120KB]
Thunderstorm Asthma Alert [7 November 2011] [PDF, 119KB]
Avoiding Falls In Tumut Hospital - "Don't Fall For It" [27 October 2011] [PDF, 161KB]
Partners Tackle Depression In Cootamundra [26 October 2011] [PDF, 121KB]
Breastscreen Van In Young [26 October 2011] [PDF, 119KB]
Breastscreen Van In Leeton [26 October 2011] [PDF, 119KB]
Golden Plains Dramatic Minds Festival [24 October 2011] [PDF, 120KB]
A Better Life With Occupational Therapy - Occupational Therapy Week 23-29 [24 October 2011] [PDF, 120KB]
A Healthy Body And Mind In Young [20 October 2011] [PDF, 120KB]
Unwind Your Mind In Tumut [20 October 2011] [PDF, 119KB]
Staying Safe From Snakes [19 October 2011] [PDF, 124KB]
Start The Week With A Walk In Cootamundra [18 October 2011] [PDF, 119KB]
Mental Health First Aid Training In West Wyalong [18 October 2011] [PDF, 120KB]
New Kitchen At Lake Cargelligo Hospital [18 October 2011] [PDF, 118KB]
First Concrete Poured At Gundagai MPS [17 October 2011] [PDF, 122KB]
Thunderstorm Asthma Alert [17 October 2011] [PDF, 124KB]
Talent Night In Deniliquin [14 October 2011] [PDF, 126KB]
New Nurses Call Jerilderie Home [14 October 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
New Telephone Number For Temora Health Service [13 October 2011] [PDF, 118KB]
Get Breast Aware This October [13 October 2011] [PDF, 121KB]
Getting Active In Cootamundra [7 October 2011] [PDF, 119KB]
Spring Greening At Batlow MPS [4 October 2011] [PDF, 1408KB]
Reap The Rewards Of Investing In Life [4 October 2011] [PDF, 120KB]
Preventing Refractures In The Riverina [30 September 2011] [PDF, 120KB]
Nurses Call Hillston Home [29 September 2011] [PDF, 145KB]
Partners Tackle Depression In Junee [27 September 2011] [PDF, 120KB]
New Nurses Call Hay Home [27 September 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Bookings Open For Breast Screening In Leeton [26 September 2011] [PDF, 119KB]
Mens Health Expert To Host Free BBQ's In Riverina [26 September 2011] [PDF, 121KB]
Festival Of Health In Crookwell [15 September 2011] [PDF, 125KB]
Breastscreen Van In The Field At Henty [15 September 2011] [PDF, 120KB]
New Home For Community And Mental Health Services In Temora [14 September 2011] [PDF, 120KB]
Mental Health First Aid Training In Culcairn [12 September 2011] [PDF, 120KB]
Batlow Students Win Dramatic Minds Festival [12 September 2011] [PDF, 121KB]
Stroke - Know Your Risk [8 September 2011] [PDF, 120KB]
Aboriginal Mental Health First Aid in Deniliquin [8 September 2011] [PDF, 120KB]
Winners of Health Excellence Awards [1 September 2011] [PDF, 142KB]
Celebrating Dramatic Minds In The Riverina [30 August 2011] [PDF, 120KB]
Spring Into Fitness [29 August 2011] [PDF, 121KB]
Asthma Tipped To Be A Challenge This Spring [29 August 2011] [PDF, 121KB]
Bookings Open For Breast Screening In Young [25 August 2011] [PDF, 119KB]
Keeping Murrumbidgee On It's Feet With Tai Chi [15 August 2011] [PDF, 119KB]
Sleep Well On Youth Day [5 August 2011] [PDF, 120KB]
Winner Donates Prize To Maternity Ward [5 August 2011] [PDF, 116KB]
Tender Awarded For Gundagai MPS [3 August 2011] [PDF, 121KB]
Reset Your Health In Deniliquin [3 August 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Improving Long Term Health In Hillston [3 August 2011] [PDF, 118KB]
Brushing Twice A Day Is Best [2 August 2011] [PDF, 118KB]
Bookings Open For Breast Screening In Deniliquin [26 July 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Wagga Mental Health Consumer Participation Group [26 July 2011] [PDF, 118KB]
Grandparents Keep Up with the Times in Young [26 July 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Support The Census To Improve Health Care [25 July 2011] [PDF, unknown]
Improving Support For Hepatitis [22 July 2011] [PDF, 119KB]
Hillston Hospital Auxiliary Improving Emergency Care [15 July 2011] [PDF, 105KB]
Good Support For Blood Donation [15 July 2011] [PDF, 118KB]
Getting Active In Leeton [12 July 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Improving Vision With Diabetes Control [8 July 2011] [PDF, 121KB]
Good Support For Blood Donation In Wagga [5 July 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Improving Aboriginal Health In NAIDOC Week [30 June 2011] [PDF, 119KB]
Lake Cargelligo And Murrin Bridge Health Services Join Murrumbidgee Local Health Network [28 June 2011] [PDF, 107KB]
Lockhart MPS Planning Underway [24 June 2011] [PDF, 115KB]
Whooping Cough Continues To Spread [21 June 2011] [PDF, 119KB]
Corowa HealthOne Taking Shape [21 June 2011] [PDF, 119KB]
Leadership Award For Corowa Nurse Manager [21 June 2011] [PDF, 120KB]
Put Your Pelvic Floor First! [20 June 2011] [PDF, 119KB]
Help Your Town Stay On Its Feet With Tai Chi [20 June 2011] [PDF, 116KB]
Albury Drug Action Week Photo Display [17 June 2011] [PDF, 128KB]
Drug Action Week in Young [17 June 2011] [PDF, 116KB]
New Aboriginal Health Worker Joins The Team In Leeton [16 June 2011] [PDF, 116KB]
Aunty Jean Leads A Healthy Lifestyle In Darlington Point [15 June 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Wash Your Hands To Avoid Gastroenteritis [15 June 2011] [PDF, 118KB]
Blood Donors Saving Lives In The Riverina [10 June 2011] [PDF, 116KB]
Advice For Men To Get Family Fit [9 June 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Aunty Jean Leads A Healthy Lifestyle In Griffith [7 June 2011] [PDF, 116KB]
Tumut Emergency Department Upgrade [6 June 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Tumbarumba Welcomes New Health Manager [6 June 2011] [PDF, 118KB]
Improving Long Term Health In Temora [6 June 2011] [PDF, 118KB]

Support For A Smoke Free Riverina [23 May 2011] [PDF, 120KB]
Taking Ownership Of End Of Life Care In Wagga [23 May 2011] [PDF, 116KB]
Supporting Elderly Care In Wagga Wagga [20 May 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Kidney Disease - A Silent Killer [20 May 2011] [PDF, 119KB]
Improving End Of Life Care [19 May 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Supporting Local People To Quit On World Tobacco Day [18 May 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Aunty Jean Leads A Healthy Lifestyle In Narrandera [17 May 2011] [PDF, 116KB]
Improving Health Care In The Eastern Riverina [17 May 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Improving Health Care In Leeton And Narrandera [17 May 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Support For Schizophrenia [16 May 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Booking Open For Breast Screening In May [13 May 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Aunty Jean Leads A Healthy Lifestyle Darlington Point [13 May 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Specialist Recruitmnet Success For Wagga Wagga Base Hospital [13 May 2011] [PDF, 118KB]
Self-Care Renal Dialysis Unit For Tumut [13 May 2011] [PDF, 116KB]
Getting Active In Cootamundra [12 May 2011] [PDF, 119KB]
Partners Tackle Depression In Young [11 May 2011] [PDF, 121KB]
Learning About Depression In Wagga Wagga [10 May 2011] [PDF, 116KB]
Cootamundra Integrated Health Services [5 May 2011] [PDF, 118KB]
Mental Health First Aid Training In Moulamein [2 May 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Love Babies? Join The Team! [2 May 2011] [PDF, 122KB]
Bookings Open For Breast Screening In Hillston [2 May 2011] [PDF, 95KB]
Clean Hands Save Lives [28 April 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Health Staff Recognised For Service Improvements [27 April 2011] [PDF, 120KB]
Learning About Depression In West Wyalong [18 April 2011] [PDF, 72KB]
Free Mens Health Talk In Gundagai [18 April 2011] [PDF, 75KB]
Free Mens Health Talk In Tumbarumba [18 April 2011] [PDF, 74KB]
New Birthing Bed For Wagga Wagga Labour Ward [18 April 2011] [PDF, 71KB]
Drive Safe Over Easter [18 April 2011] [PDF, 74KB]
Mental Health First Aid Training In Tumbarumba [11 April 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
More Children Have Surgery At WWBH Thanks To BEQUEST [11 April 2011] [PDF, 118KB]
New Child And Family Health Nurse In Leeton [11 April 2011] [PDF, 116KB]
Mens Health Expert To Host Free BBQ In Lockhart [8 Aril 2011] [PDF, 118KB]
Bookings Open For Breast Screening In West Wyalong [6 April 2011] [PDF, 118KB]
Aunty Jean's Healthy Lifestyle Program In Griffith [5 April 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Aunty Jean Leads A Healthy Lifestyle In Darlington Point [5 April 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Preventing Drug Resistant Infections [4 April 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Baby Boom In Tumut [1 April 2011] [PDF, 116KB]
Albury Young Carers Support Group [28 March 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
New Speech Support In Leeton And Narrandera [28 March 2011] [PDF, 116KB]
Mens Health Expert To Host Free Bbq's In Riverina [28 March 2011] [PDF, 121KB]
Mate Helping Mate In Lockhart [28 March 2011] [PDF, 116KB]
Step Out On April Falls Day [28 March 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Mental Health First Aid Training In Young [23 March 2011] [PDF, 118KB]
Children And Caffiene Don't Mix [21 March 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Mental Health First Aid Training In Tumut [18 March 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Building Stronger Families In Wagga Wagga [17 March 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Building Stronger Families In Narrandera [17 March 2011] [PDF, 116KB]
Bulding Stronger Families In Griffith [17 March 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Take The Ack Out of Your Back In Cootamundra [16 March 2011] [PDF, 116KB]
Support For Grandparents In Young [14 March 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Health Workers Hit The Trails In Wagga [14 March 2011] [PDF, 119KB]
Senior Appointments Announced For MLHD [PDF, 118KB]
Aunty Jean Leads A Health Lifestyle At Darlington Point[10 March 2011] [PDF, 116KB]
More Graduate Nurses Start In MLHD [9 March 2011] [PDF, 119KB]
Staying Active In Barham [8 March 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Aunty Jeans Discuss Hearth Health In Griffith [07 March 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Temora Hospital Front Entrance Revamp [23 February 2011] [PDF, 115KB]
Mosquito warning to avoid Murray Valley Encephalitis virus [22 February 2011] [PDF, 129KB]
Improving Heart Health In Cootamundra [22 February 2011] [PDF, 119KB]
Don't Touch Rove Beetles [9 February 2011] [PDF, 123KB]
Mlhd Governing Council Meet In Wagga [8 February 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Tumut Mental Health Support Group [8 February 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
Mens Health Expert To Host Free BBQ's In Riverina [8 February 2011] [PDF, 119KB]
Aunty Jean Leads A Healthy Lifestyle In Griffith [8 February 2011] [PDF, 116KB]
Staying Active In Tumut [2 February 2011] [PDF, 118KB]
Barmah Forest Virus Infections Increasing [1 February 2011] [PDF, 121KB]
Staying Active In Temora [31 January 2011] [PDF, 118KB]
Supporting People Living With Mental Illness [31 January 2011] [PDF, 123KB]
Starting School: Make Sure Vaccinations Are Up-To-Date [19 January 2011] [PDF, 118KB]
Wagga Wagga In Demand By Graduate Doctors [18 January 2011] [PDF, 119KB]
Comments Invited On New Gundagai Health Service [17 January 2011] [PDF, 118KB]
Midwives Supporting New Mums At Home In Wagga Wagga [17 January 2011] [PDF, 117KB]
A Nutritious Start To The New Year [17 January 2011] [PDF, 120KB]
Specialist Drug And Alcohol Support In Tumut [17 January 2011] [PDF, 118KB]
Comments Invited on New Gundagai Health Service [17 January 2011] [PDF, 118KB]
A Healthy Start To 2011 In Leeton And Narrandera [12 January 2011] [PDF, 120KB]
Griffith Advised To Avoid Fad Diets [12 January 2011] [PDF, 119KB]
Integrated Health Care For Corowa [06 January 2011] [PDF, 116KB]