Media Releases
All media enquiries and interview requests can be made to the Murray PHN Communications team on 03 4408 5613 or email during normal business hours at communications@murrayphn.org.au
Murray PHN is committed to providing accurate, timely information and can arrange interviews and photo opportunities with our CEO, Executive Directors, Program Managers or Medical Advisors in our Albury, Bendigo, Shepparton and Mildura offices.
2021
- Region reaches vaccination milestone - 13 October
- Vaccination grants to target vulnerable populations - 12 October
- Aged care staff reach vaccination milestone - 23 September
- Joining our community safety net (Sunraysia Mallee) - 7 September
- Joining our community safety net (Benalla) - 7 September
- It starts with you: Choose to vaccinate against COVID-19 - 25 August
- Murray PHN residents encouraged to have their say on health - 13 July
- New helpline for health services - 25 June
- Launching the inaugural Murray Health Report - 13 May
- Sunraysia Mallee safety net grows - 4 May
- HeadtoHelp Shepparton to strengthen shared care - 13 April
- headspace Wangaratta to open officially - 26 March
- Planning for your COVID-19 vaccination - 19 March
- Goulburn Valley residents can HeadtoHelp - 17 March
- Community paediatrician service begins - 24 February
2020
- headspace Wangaratta delivering services - 23 December
- North west residents encouraged to HeadtoHelp - 17 December
- HeadtoHelp: 15 new mental health hubs to support Victorians during COVID-19 - 13 September
- ERH to lead headspace Echuca - 2 July
- New counselling service launched - 2 July
- Wangaratta headspace satellite progressing - 11 June
- Support at your fingertips - 22 May
- Protective visors for GPs (Echuca Moama Family Medical Practice) - 18 May
- Protective visors for GPs (Indigo Family Medical Centre) - 13 May
- New service to help Sunraysia residents find their way back - 8 May
- Community grants open for bushfire affected communities - 3 April
- Community suicide prevention meeting - 3 February
- Supporting bushfire affected communities - 16 January
2019
- Coping with Christmas - 20 December
- New service to help Sunraysia residents find their way back - 3 December
- New calendar celebrates community - 15 November
- Echuca headspace centre planning continues - 14 November
- Have your say on mental health - 1 November
- Building a suicide safety net in Sunraysia Mallee - 8 October
- Building capacity to prevent suicide - 4 October
- Community event for World Suicide Prevention Day - 3 September
- Free community event in Benalla - 30 August
- Sunraysia Mallee community to come together for suicide prevention - 15 August
- $3m general practice investment in the Murray PHN region - 31 July
- Supporting people impacted by suicide - 10 July
- Using technology to remotely monitor chronic disease patients - 20 June
- Community invited to Winter Solstice - 16 June
- Community invited to art exhibition - 5 June
- Stepping towards more responsive mental health services - 4 June
- New community suicide prevention resource to be launched - 15 May
- Helping prevent suicide in Ouyen - 29 April
- More resources for mental health - 2 April
- Support beyond the bushfires - 21 March
- Nursing staff expand care - 8 March
- Support for cancer survivors - 27 February
- $3m to strengthen general practice - 19 February
- Community invited to attend suicide prevention meeting - 25 January
- Support after the 2009 bushfires - 14 January
2018
- Take care this holiday season (Benalla) - 17 December
- Take care this holiday season (Mildura) - 17 December
- Helping prevent suicide in Benalla - 11 December
- Opportunity to participate in suicide prevention research - 30 November
- Improving cancer care for patients - 1 November
- Overcoming 'The Enemy Within' - 10 October
- Working together to prevent suicide in Mildura - 10 September
- New Advisory Council Members named - 27 August 2018
- Get involved in the health of your region - 6 July 2018
- New approach to mental health puts patients' needs first - 22 May
- Doctors in Secondary Schools Program begins at McGuire College Shepparton - 16 May
- Examining new ways of thinking to tackle suicide in Mildura- 8 May
- Lend your voice to suicide prevention in the Mildura region - 19 March
- Learn how to support those affected by suicide - 23 February
- Albury internship to help improve Indigenous health outcomes - 20 February 2018
- Organisations coming together in Goulburn Valley to stop stigma- 20 February
- Organisations coming together in North West to stop stigma - 19 February
- Organisations coming together in Central Victoria to stop stigma - 16 February
- Community meeting to discuss suicide prevention in Benalla - 15 February 2018
- Internships to improve Indigenous health outcomes - 31 January 2018
- Investing in nurses to improve rural health services- 25 January 2018
2017
- Look after your mental health this holiday season - 6 December 2017
- Fifty organisations pledge to stop mental illness stigma - 17 November 2017
- New funding for heart and lung diseases - 19 October 2017
- Statement on marriage equality - 21 September 2017
- Working with the community to prevent suicide in Mildura - 13 September 2017
- Working with the community to prevent suicide in Benalla - 13 September 2017
- Improving mental health recovery - 17 August 2017
- Implementing a new COPD model of care - 8 August 2017
- Mental health initiative begins in Bendigo - 24 July 2017
- Doctors in Secondary Schools Program begins in Kangaroo Flat and Wedderburn - 21 July 2017
- Murray PHN commissions work from local Indigenous artist - 6 July 2017
- Focussing on youth mental ill-health: headspace regional forum - 27 June 2017
- The Big Bowel is coming to Albury! - 21 June 2017
- Addressing Indigenous health outcomes in the community - 1 June 2017
- Mental health assessment in the GP waiting room - 8 May 2017
- Immunisation update in North East Victoria - 26 April 2017
- Regional health system change - 30 March 2017
- Closing the Indigenous health gap | Wodonga - 14 March 2017
- Loddon Gannawarra Health Needs Analysis - 8 February 2017
2016
- Local strategies for suicide prevention - 20 December 2016
- Murray HealthPathways launch | Shepparton - 5 December 2016
- Report to the Community - 1 December 2016
- Murray HealthPathways launch | Mildura - 29 November 2016
- Murray HealthPathways launch | Bendigo - 1 November 2016
- Doctors in Secondary Schools - 1 September 2016
- Place based suicide prevention | Mildura - 28 July 2016
- Place based suicide prevention | Wangaratta - 28 July 2016
- Community call to get involved in health planning - 23 May 2016
- Murray PHN first to introduce stigma charter - 17 May 2016
- Mental health art exhibition - 27 April 2016
- Mental illness stigma forums | Wodonga - 11 April 2016
- Community Advisory Councils | Have your say on local health - 7 April 2016
- headspace Swan Hill opening - 3 April 2016
- Close the Gap Day Central Victoria - 15 March 2016
- Close the Gap Day North East - 15 March 2016
2015
- PHNs funded to tackle Ice - 7 December 2015
- Media Alert | Mildura office opening - 23 October 2015
- New Support Program | Borderline Personality Disorder | Albury-Wodonga - 1 October 2015
- Paediatric update Kerang - 15 September 2015
- Murray PHN commences - 1 July 2015
- Murray PHN announced - 11 April 2015