{"id":104,"date":"2008-09-01T00:04:51","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T14:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=104"},"modified":"2008-09-01T00:04:51","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T14:04:51","slug":"new-health-services-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"New Health Services begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Member for Chifley, <strong>Roger Price<\/strong>, has welcomed the introduction of the Rudd Government\u2019s new health services available to families which began on 1st July 2008, the first day of the Financial Year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLocal Chifley residents will be able to give their children better access to the basic care needed to maintain their health and wellbeing,\u201d Mr. Price said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cChildren and young adults will especially benefit from these services which include dental checks for teenagers and check-ups for children about to begin school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Items that are now available include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$150 for preventative dental checks for teenagers under Medicare;<\/li>\n<li>Free Healthy Kids Check for kids about to start school;<\/li>\n<li>Get Set 4 Life guide \u2013 to help kids develop healthy habits for life;<\/li>\n<li>New Medicare items for children with autism;<\/li>\n<li>New Medicare items to help people at high risk of diabetes;<\/li>\n<li>New medicines on the PBS for people who suffer from multiple sclerosis, chronic kidney disease, Alzheimer disease and for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community who are at risk from psoriasis of the scalp.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThe Teen Dental Plan is a key initiative that will assist over one million teenagers between 12 and 17 to receive up to $150 towards the cost of their annual dental preventive checks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLocal families within our community and especially those with children will be able to take immediate advantage of these new services\u201d Mr. Price said.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.health.gov.au\/\">http:\/\/www.health.gov.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Member for Chifley, Roger Price, has welcomed the introduction of the Rudd Government\u2019s new health services available to families which began on 1st July 2008, the first day of the Financial Year. \u201cLocal Chifley residents will be able to give their children better access to the basic care needed to maintain their health and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}