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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 07:38:57 GMT</pubDate>
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			<description>Latest news from Victoria's Department of Health</description>
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				<title>Victoria&#39;s exceptional health volunteers honoured</title>
				<link>http://www.health.vic.gov.au/news/volunteer-awards-2013.htm?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=newsfeed</link>
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				<pubDate> Fri, 24 May 2013 07:38:12 +1000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to those honoured in the 2013 Minister for Health Volunteer Awards]]></description>
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				<title>Latest population health profiles released</title>
				<link>http://www.health.vic.gov.au/news/lga-stats.htm?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=newsfeed</link>
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				<pubDate> Thu, 02 May 2013 06:30:40 +1000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Latest health statistics across 79 local government areas in Victoria including location-based data and analysis about population, socio-economics, services and health data.]]></description>
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				<title>Multi million dollar boost for our hospitals</title>
				<link>http://www.health.vic.gov.au/news/funding-hospitalimprovement.htm?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=newsfeed</link>
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				<pubDate> Thu, 02 May 2013 06:29:57 +1000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Securing Our Health System is a Victorian Government initiative of $120 million investment to update vital medical equipment and engineering infrastructure in metropolitan and rural public hospitals.]]></description>
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				<title>Immunisation Week puts vaccination front and centre</title>
				<link>http://www.health.vic.gov.au/news/immunisation_week.htm?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=newsfeed</link>
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				<pubDate> Thu, 02 May 2013 06:28:55 +1000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Immunisation is on the radar this weekend when the World Health Organization (WHO) 2013 Immunisation Week is launched in Australia on Saturday 20 April.]]></description>
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				<title>Bigger and better Bendigo Hospital gets closer</title>
				<link>http://health.vic.gov.au/news/new-bendigo-hospital.htm?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=newsfeed</link>
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				<pubDate> Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:07:45 +1000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The New Bendigo Hospital Project is a step closer to reality with the Exemplar consortium now chosen as the preferred bidder to progress the $630 million capital works program.]]></description>
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				<title> Celebrating Victoria&#39;s outstanding volunteers in healthcare</title>
				<link>http://www.health.vic.gov.au/news/celebrating-outstanding-volunteers-in-healthcare.htm?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=newsfeed</link>
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				<pubDate> Wed, 06 Mar 2013 01:44:22 +1000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Nominations are now being called for the 2013 Minister for Health Volunteers Awards.]]></description>
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				<title>New Commissioner to stand up for Victorian seniors</title>
				<link>http://www.health.vic.gov.au/news/new-commissioner-seniors.htm?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=newsfeed</link>
				<category>News</category>
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				<pubDate> Sun, 24 Feb 2013 20:37:39 +1000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The Victorian Government will establish a new Commissioner of Senior Victorians to boost community participation of people 60 years and older and develop an age-friendly society.]]></description>
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				<title>Kinglake&#39;s new ambulance station opens</title>
				<link>http://www.health.vic.gov.au/news/kinglake-ambulance.htm?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=newsfeed</link>
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				<pubDate> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:17:18 +1000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The new Kinglake ambulance station has been officially opened, marking a milestone in recovery efforts in an area still rebuilding following the Black Saturday bushfires.]]></description>
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				<title>Next steps in Victorian tobacco reforms</title>
				<link>http://www.health.vic.gov.au/news/next-steps-in-victorian-tobacco-reforms.htm?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=newsfeed</link>
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				<pubDate> Tue, 12 Feb 2013 04:58:55 +1000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The Victorian Government is taking its fight against smoking to children&#39;s playgrounds and sporting events to protect Victoria&#39;s most vulnerable from the effects of second-hand cigarette smoke.]]></description>
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				<title>Nominations sought for Victoria&#39;s outstanding early stage health and medical researchers</title>
				<link>http://www.health.vic.gov.au/news/premiers-award-for-health-and-medical-research.htm?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=newsfeed</link>
				<category>News</category>
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				<pubDate> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 04:52:07 +1000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Victoria&#39;s early career health and medical researchers are encouraged to submit nominations for the 2013 Premier&#39;s Award for Health and Medical Research.]]></description>
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				<title>Research to target depression and anxiety</title>
				<link>http://www.health.vic.gov.au/news/research-to-target-depression-and-anxiety.htm?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=newsfeed</link>
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				<pubDate> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:14:03 +1000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[More than $1 million in mental health research grants with a focus on depression and anxiety have been announced.]]></description>
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				<title>Victoria&#39;s plan to reduce the alcohol and drug toll</title>
				<link>http://www.health.vic.gov.au/news/reduce-alcohol-drug-toll.htm?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=newsfeed</link>
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				<pubDate> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 04:25:41 +1000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Minister for Mental Health Mary Wooldridge has released Victoria&#39;s first whole-of-government strategy to reduce the impact of alcohol and drug abuse in the Victorian community.]]></description>
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				<title>Commonwealth Reduction of Payments - National Health Funding Pool</title>
				<link>http://www.health.vic.gov.au/news/commonwealth-reduction-of-payments-national-health-funding-pool.htm?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=newsfeed</link>
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				<pubDate> Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:16:08 +1000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[On 1 November 2012, Commonwealth Treasury sent the States confirmation that the Commonwealth cut to health spending would amount to $403.48 million nationally, and $106.80 million for Victorian health services.]]></description>
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				<title>Construction starts on Echuca Hospital redevelopment</title>
				<link>http://www.health.vic.gov.au/news/construction-starts-on-echuca-hospital-redevelopment.htm?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=newsfeed</link>
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				<pubDate> Mon, 21 Jan 2013 06:27:05 +1000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Minister for Health David Davis has marked the start of construction works for the $65.6 million redevelopment of Echuca Regional Health.]]></description>
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				<title>Australian-first rapid testing HIV trial in Victoria</title>
				<link>http://www.health.vic.gov.au/news/rapid-testing-HIV-trial-in-Victoria.htm?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=newsfeed</link>
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				<pubDate> Mon, 14 Jan 2013 06:13:57 +1000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Plans for a community-based rapid HIV testing trial in Victoria have been unveiled by Minister for Health David Davis.]]></description>
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				<title>VicHealth celebrates a quarter of a century</title>
				<link>http://www.health.vic.gov.au/news/vichealth-25-years.htm?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=newsfeed</link>
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				<pubDate> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 02:28:10 +1000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, better known as VicHealth, recently marked 25 years of ground-breaking work in illness prevention across the state.]]></description>
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				<title>Jamie&#39;s Ministry of Food road trip begins</title>
				<link>http://www.health.vic.gov.au/news/ministry-of-food-road-trip-begins.htm?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=newsfeed</link>
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				<pubDate> Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:25:26 +1000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Jamie&#39;s Ministry of Food Mobile Kitchen will hit the road this month on a two-and-a-half year road trip around Victoria delivering nutritional cooking classes, with its first stop in Bendigo on 11 January.]]></description>
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				<title>Get serious about food safety this Summer</title>
				<link>http://www.health.vic.gov.au/news/food-safety-this-summer.htm?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=newsfeed</link>
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				<pubDate> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:58:14 +1000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Victorians are urged to get serious about food safety this summer as part of a new Department of Health campaign targeting safe food practice in the home.]]></description>
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				<title>Victoria&#39;s first skin cancer prevention framework</title>
				<link>http://www.health.vic.gov.au/news/skin-cancer-prevention.htm?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=newsfeed</link>
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				<pubDate> Fri, 14 Dec 2012 04:43:21 +1000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The Premier of Victoria and the Minister for Health have released Victoria&#39;s first ever Skin Cancer Prevention Framework 2013-17.]]></description>
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				<title>Changes to the secondary school vaccine program</title>
				<link>http://health.vic.gov.au/news/changes-to-secondary-school-vaccine-program.htm?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=newsfeed</link>
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				<pubDate> Fri, 14 Dec 2012 01:46:23 +1000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[From 2013, there will be changes to the secondary school vaccine program for students in Year 7 and boys in Year 9.]]></description>
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