• Sleep Bub Safe education campaign
• Health, Climate & Our Future – Online Consultation for ACCHOs & ACCOs
• NACCHO MBS Webinar
• First Nations-led event highlights health challenges experience by women in remote Queensland communities
• Men’s Health Week June 9-15
• Sector Jobs
• Events and training

The NACCHO Sector News is a platform we use to showcase the important work being done in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, focusing on the work of NACCHO, NACCHO members and NACCHO affiliates.

We also share a curated selection of news stories that are of likely interest to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health sector, broadly.

Sleep Bub Safe education campaign

Sleep bub safe resources aim to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and carers with information to help bub sleep safe. There is also information about where to go if you have questions on safe sleep practices. The resources were created together with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and child health advocates.

The campaign and the digital assets focus on 4 key messages:

1. Put bub to sleep in their own space, on a firm, flat, and level surface.
2. Keep bub’s sleep space clear and their head and face uncovered.
3. Watch bub if they’re in a bouncer, swing or rocker. These are just for play, not for sleep, as they can make bub drop their chin to their chest and block their airway. Take them out if they fall asleep.
4. Sleep bub safe when they’re out and about. If they fall asleep, check on them regularly and lie them flat as soon as you can.

ACCHOs are encouraged to display the Sleep Bub Safe brochure in the vicinity of clinic televisions where the video will be displayed to assist consumers to access more information via the brochure QR code.

Access all the Sleep Bub Safe resources here.

Health, Climate & Our Future – Online Consultation for ACCHOs & ACCOs

Hey Mob, we want to hear from you! Climate change isn’t just something happening out there—it’s something we’re feeling in our Communities, in our health, and in the way we do our jobs. Join us for a deadly online yarn about how climate and environment shifts are impacting our ACCOs and ACCHOs, our way of working, and our ways of keeping Mob safe and strong.

Come along to one of the following upcoming sessions:

Session 1: Wednesday 11 June (3-4.30PM AEST)

Session 2: Friday 13 June (12-1.30PM AEST)

NACCHO MBS Webinar

ACCHO staff are invited to the NACCHO MBS Webinar, Friday 20 June (1-2.30pm AEST).

This webinar focuses on the upcoming changes to the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS), effective from 1 July 2025. ACCHO staff are encouraged to come along to help understand the impact of the changes and hear from representatives from the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing and Services Australia.

Topics Covered:

• Chronic disease management item changes:
• Links with MyMedicare
• Implications for PIP IHI
• Implications for nKPI’s
• Triple bulk billing and bulk billing incentive:
• Links with MyMedicare and registration requirements

Speakers:

• NACCHO: Dr Jason Agostino, Senior Medical Advisor
• Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing:
  • Louise Riley, Assistant Secretary, MBS Policy & Reviews Branch
  • Mark Roddam, First Assistant Secretary, Primary Care Division
• Services Australia:
  • David McEwen, Director My Medicare Operations
  • Diana Cooper, Program Officer My Medicare Operations

Register to the webinar

First Nations-led event highlights health challenges experience by women in remote Queensland communities

An inaugural First nations-led event has highlighted the health challenges experienced by women living in isolated parts of Far North Queensland.

Hosted by Aboriginal-owned Embley Contracting, the University of Queensland (UQ), Queensland Health, the Western CapeHER Women’s Health Forum took place in the Napranum community near Weipa, Cape York last week.

After envisioning the event, local First Nations woman and Adjunct Lecturer Minnie King, of UQ’s School of Public Health, said a postcode should not affect a woman’s health.

“This was a community-led, place-based forum, and our goal is to generate solutions together,” Ms King said.

“This has been a rare opportunity to make our voices count.”

A strong representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women from Weipa, Napranum, Aurukun and Mapoon communities were among the approximately 100 people who attended the two-day event, along with subject matter experts outside of Western Cape.

Read about this event here.

Men’s Health Week June 9-15

A See Your GP campaign has been launched as part of Men’s Health Week 2025, which runs from June 9 to June 15.

Healthy Male and the Centre for Male Health have launched the campaign, urging men to prioritise their wellbeing and book a GP visit – before taking advice from people without medical degrees.

The See Your GP message is clear – before you take everyone else’s advice, talk to your doctor – and at the heart of the campaign is a new dedicated website See Your GP, which provides practical tools to help men get the most out of a visit to their doctor.

The dedicated site includes a GP visit checklist, tips for booking appointments, guidance on what to bring and which questions to ask, alternatives when seeing a doctor in person isn’t possible.

The site features a service locator tool, which allows men to search for nearby general practices, men’s health clinics, sexual health services, mental health providers, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services.

Find out more here.

Sector Jobs – you can see sector job listings on the NACCHO website here.

Advertising Jobs – to advertise a job vacancy click here to go to the NACCHO website current job listings webpage. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to find a Post A Job form. You can complete this form with your job vacancy details – it will then be approved for posting and go live on the NACCHO website.