Predicting prem babies' health
New research will allow doctors to more accurately inform and update parents of extremely preterm babies about their baby’s long-term survival and health risks.
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Launch of new research centre set to create safer familiesAustralia’s first and only Centre for Research Excellence (CRE) to promote safer families will lead research into the health effects of intimate partner violence on individuals and families, and how the health sector can respond.
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The Women’s becomes one of the first hospitals to receive a White RibbonThe Royal Women’s Hospital has become one of the first Victorian hospitals providers to receive White Ribbon workplace accreditation for its extensive efforts to support employees who may be experiencing family violence.
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The Women’s gives evidence at the child abuse Royal CommissionThe Women’s and University of Melbourne Professor Louise Newman will today give evidence at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
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Greater support for women experiencing family violenceThe Royal Women’s Hospital is reminding people on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women that 20 per cent of family violence begins during pregnancy.
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The Women’s joins major international conference on family violenceHospital responses to family violence will be highlighted at the Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International
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More support to help hospitals respond to family violenceThe Minister for Health Jill Hennessy today announced new funding for the Strengthening Hospital Responses for Family Violence initiative
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Get to know our White Ribbon AmbassadorsThe Women's White Ribbon Ambassadors speak up, speak out and act to prevent men's violence against women
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The first chair of Family Violence Prevention appointedIn a joint appointment by the Women's and The University of Melbourne, Professor Kelsey Hegarty has been appointed Australia’s first chair of Family Violence Prevention
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Investing in health professionals to identify and respond to family violence
Royal Commission into Family Violence recommendation recognises the relationship between mental health and relational violence
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Increased focus on hospitals’ role in family violence response welcomedHospitals are uniquely placed to provide women with a safe place to disclose family violence and link them with family violence services
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