Lymphoedema Association of Victoria in Ashburton, Victoria | Community organisation

Lymphoedema Association of Victoria

Locality: Ashburton, Victoria

Phone: +61 1300 852 850

Address: PO Box 83 3147 Ashburton, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.lav.org.au

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25.01.2022 Late last month the LAA sent an advocacy flyer, with cover letter, to all NSW MP's electorate offices, asking them to show their support of people with lymphoed...ema by contacting the NSW Health Minister seeking equitable access to quality public lymphoedema services in NSW. With the NSW state election now less than one month away, MPs were also asked to urge their party leadership to adopt our ask as part of their pre-election policies, to be implemented if elected in March. We are pleased to see some responses coming in with Lymphoedema Awareness month is coming up in March. See more

23.01.2022 Great news! The long awaited NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation ‘Lymphoedema: a guide for clinical services’ has been released today. Thank you to everyone who contributed including LAA Steering Committee members Dr Helen Mackie and Dr Debbie Geyer.

21.01.2022 Today is World Lymphoedema Awareness Day, when people around the world use their voices to raise awareness of lymphoedema. Lymphatic Education and Research Net...work has released a powerful video in recognition of World Lymphoedema Day on March 6. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch See more

21.01.2022 Great recent podcast about Lymphoedema on the 3AW radio program Talking Health.

21.01.2022 LAA Steering Committee members Kerryn Tutt and Dr Debbie Geyer had a very positive meeting with Dr Mike Freelander MP this week. Dr Freedlander has written to u...rge Health Minister The Hon Greg Hunt to allow compression garments to be available as publicly funded prostheses, and to develop a new Medicare item number for treatment and physio for people with lymphoedema. Thanks for your support of these important improvements Dr Freedlander! See more

19.01.2022 On World Lymphoedema Awareness Day 6 March we call on governments around Australia to reduce the unnecessary suffering of people who have lymphoedema, by ensuring equitable access to quality lymphoedema services, and affordable lymphoedema compression garments.

17.01.2022 For peace of mind: if you are looking for a lymphoedema practitioner, check out the Find a Practitioner list on the ALA website. If you have a practitioner ask them if they have the ALA tick of approval. http://www.lymphoedema.org.au//find-an-ala-accredited-pra/

16.01.2022 Please help us to make the LAV strong again! The LAV urgently requires Committee Members and Volunteers to ensure its survival. Please email [email protected] if you are able to offer assistance. The LAV has a proud history of providing education, information and advocacy services for nearly 30 yrs. The LAV has been an important voice for people living with lymphoedema, advocating for improved availability and affordability of diagnosis, treatment and management services for lymphoedema, financial assistance, and opportunities for education and information about this chronic health condition. We believe that many members with lymphoedema, carers, family, and practitioners have found great value in the LAV over several years and that the LAV still has a role to play at a state and national level.

13.01.2022 Some great action from South Australia

13.01.2022 Exciting News - tomorrow - Wednesday September 19 - Mr Troy Bell MP - Member for Mt Gambier will be raising a motion in SA Parliament supporting Lymphoedema... Services and Subsidies in SA. How can you demosnstrate your support? The LSGSA will be there - if you wish to attend and watch from the public gallery, meet Monique on the front steps at 10:10am. Like and share this post Contact your local MP requesting they support Mr Bells Motion. @TroyBell17 See more

08.01.2022 Lymphoedema awareness day being held in Sydney on Saturday 9 March 2019. https://www.facebook.com//37604/permalink/683012715434309/

07.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/846250365394530/posts/2317216991631186/

04.01.2022 The LAA welcomes the May 12th announcement by the Hon Greg Hunt MP in a joint press release with the Hon Scott Morrison MP titled Supporting Women’s Health Ser...vices, which included a pledge of 8 million dollars over 4 years to ensure patients suffering with lymphoedema are able to access subsidised and specialised compression garments. This is a very exciting announcement from The Morrison Government. We acknowledge that there is still a lot of work to do and many aspects of this announcement to clarify. The LAA looks forward to working with a future government in order to establish a suitable plan for compression garments. We encourage the opposition leader and shadow health minister, the Hon Bill Shorten MP and the Hon Catherine King MP, to release their policies on supporting Australians’ with lymphoedema. https://www.liberal.org.au/our-plan-support-australian-women

02.01.2022 The ALA conference is being held in Brisbane in May. Register now for the Public Day on Saturday 19 May.