Government spending on preventative health measures jumped 22% last year, mainly due to the continuing roll-out of a national immunisation program aimed at reducing cervical cancer, reports News.com.au.   

Former NSW health minister John Della Bosca has begun a public campaign to resurrect his political career after quitting over an affair earlier this year, the ABC says.   

A south-west Queensland woman has retired after working in country hospitals and the rural health industry for almost 60 years, writes the ABC.   

The Victorian government has ordered a review of the state’s forensic mental health hospital, after the killings on Wednesday night of two inpatients, allegedly at the hand of a third, writes The Age.   

The Federal government has provided $50 million until 2013 to fund a new partnership between Brisbane's Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) and the Royal Darwin Hospital's National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.   

The position of chaplain at the Lismore Base Hospital could be axed due to budget cutbacks, after almost 20 years of service to the patients, families and staff, writes the Catholic News.   

The opening of a multi-million dollar medical centre in the NSW Central West has been delayed because telephone lines have not been connected, says the ABC.   

Pharmaceutical companies are spending $60 million a year wining and dining Australian doctors, according to a Newcastle University report in the ABC.   

Two new superclinics in Brisbane will be built at a cost of $7.5 million, under a deal announced by the Prime Minister and the University of Queensland, the Brisbane Times says.   

A combination of painkillers might have caused the death of a young Melbourne woman after liposuction, says WA Today.   

Medicare will become a government clearing house to process all superannuation payments for 1.6 million business employees, says The Australian Financial Review.  

A Cairns woman is being sent to Darwin for an abortion because doctors fear they will be jailed if they perform the operation under Queensland law, says the Courier Mail.