Summary of Reports Recognising Nganampa Health

"Frequently Nganampa Health Council receives requests for information into the outcomes of the programs we operate. Although there is much work to be done to improve the health and wellbeing of the residents of the APY Lands, there have been some significant improvements made.

Nganama Health's Annual Report released

Nganampa Health Council is pleased to make our 2011 Annual Report available from this website. It can be accessed from the "Download Reports and Documents" section.

The 2010/11 year was a successful year for Nganampa Health Council. Some of our the good news stories included in the report include:  

. Very high participation rates in our annual STI screening.
· 100% childhood immunisation coverage.
· The commencement of a new Chronic Disease Management program and a new program with The Fred Hollows Foundation.
· Improvement in the number of completed health checks.
· The 100th birthday for a resident at our Tjilpiku Pampaku Ngura.
· A very strong financial position.        
  

Nganampa Health Council Success Recognised in the Productivity Commission's 2011 Overcoming Disadvantage report

Nganampa Health Council's child health program has been recognised in the Productivity Commission's 2011 Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report. Specifically, the report noted our successes in the areas of childhood immunisation, child health screening and child growth monitoring and surveillance. Earlier Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage reports have noted the success of our STI and antenatal programs.

The Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report can be obtained from

http://www.pc.gov.au/gsp/indigenous/key-indicators-2011.

Nganampa Health Council's Sexual Health Screening

Nganampa Health Council's annual STI screening is about to commence. This is one of our most important and successful program as evidenced by the articles below.

www.publish.csiro.au/journals/SH

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/indigenous-sti-plans-need-evidence-20110928-1kx02.html"

Facebook

There are now over 300 people following Nganampa Health Council on Facebook.

Nganampa Health has for a number of years used a website to promote our organisation. We have taken this a step further with the launch of our Facebook page. The page recognises the large number of Anangu residents from the APY Lands who use Facebook. It will be used to promote our activities and to advertise job vacancies when they become available. We encourage you to "Like" our page so you can receive updates on our activities. The page can be accessed from http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nganampa-Health-Council/306940186003663.

UPK 5 Album

The latest UPK album is now available. You can listen to the songs at http://upk5.com/site/.

The funding for this album has been made available by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing through the Local Community Campaigns program.

While you are here, why not check out the previous four UPK albums at our online store.

Aboriginal Health Worker Training

Congratulations to Mary Willis, Dianne Strangways, Louise Tucker, Jennifer Summerfield and Pantjiti Lewis for completing "Workplace Training and Assessment" training. Thanks to the Aboriginal Health Council of SA for conducting the training and Cyndi Cole for her hard work.

Hope everyone enjoyed the Dolly Parton concert!

Tjilpi Peter turns 100

"Congratulations to Peter who recently turned 100. Peter is a long time resident of our Tjilpi Pampaku Ngura at Pukatja. He received a letter from the Queen, the Prime Minister and the Governor General."

Nganampa Health Council Strategic Plan 2014

The new Nganampa Health Council Strategic Plan has just been released. The new plan details our past achievements and will guide our developments over the next three years. A copy of this plan can be downloaded from this web site.

NHC Strategic Plan 2014

2011 World Habitat Awards

Congratulations to the Healthabitat team for being awarded the 2011 World Habitat Award. Over 250 entries from 82 countries were submitted. This is an extremely prestigious award that will be presented at the United Nations global celebrations of World Habitat Day in Mexico on the 3rd October.

Healthabitat grew out of the work performed by Nganampa Health Council from the groundbreaking UPK report. Despite being release in 1987, the report is still relevant today and the nine healthy living practices detailed in this report still guide our developments today.

Further information on Healthabitat and the UPK program can be found from this website and from

www.healthabitat.com

Nganampa Health Doctor Featured in Rural Pulse

Dr Peter Bennett, one of our long term Doctor's was featured in a recent article in the Rural Pulse. A copy of the article can be obtained from here. The article gives a good summary of the work of our Doctor's.

Nganampa Health Council is keen to hear from Doctor's who would be interested in working for us and information on this can be found from the employment section of our website.


Peter Bennett Article

New Scholarship Awarded

Over the years Nganampa Health staff and supporters have contributed funds to a study scholarship fund to help Anangu access tertiary education. Currently we are supporting three students.

One of the students we have been supporting is Zachariaha Fielding who is studying music at Adelaide University.

On Thursday night Zachariaha sang on the X Factor TV show and made it into the next round.

You can find a video of Zachariaha singing at     http://au.tv.yahoo.com/x-factor/

Please contact Nganampa Health Council if you would like to make a donation to this fund. Donations over $2 are tax deductible.