St.LukesHealth News

27 July 2022
Tasmania's smoking rate is 17 per cent - the second highest in the nation.

29 June 2022
As a new premier and health minister, Jeremy Rockliff must have had moments leading up to budget day where he wondered whether announcing $150 million health IT upgrade would have as much wow factor i

22 June 2022
Learn how you can access your 2021/2022 Private Health Insurance Statement for this year’s tax return.

31 May 2022
Tasmanians now have a range of free and easy options to get their flu shot wherever they are.

25 May 2022
With the federal election over, Tasmania will look to newly minted Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Labor Government to deliver on its promises and get to work on the issues the electorate wants tack

16 May 2022
Cost of living pressures are poised to worsen already critical public hospital elective surgery waiting lists in Tasmania.

13 May 2022
Private health insurance reform is a critical piece of the health picture. Without a robust private health system, the public hospital system will continue to buckle and lurch from crisis to crisis.

11 May 2022
One of the biggest challenges for people in regional areas is the access to health care. It’s not so much that the services don’t exist, they’re just a long way away, or difficult to get to.

28 April 2022
Reforming the private health insurance system to accommodate treatments and procedures performed outside a hospital setting would alleviate pressure on the public hospital system.