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Pink Ribbon Breakfast Tickets On Sale Now 14 August 2023 Purchase ticketshereto BreastScreen WA's Pink Ribbon Breakfast 2023 Each year, BreastScreen WA hosts a Pink Ribbon Breakfast to celebrate our achievements and supporters. The event consists of sit-down breakfast, and guest speakers who are women who have achieved wonderful things throughout their career. This year's speakers are: Theresa Kwok 2023 WA Senior Australian of the Year With a background in social work, Theresa Kwok has been helping migrants settle in Australia from the moment she arrived from Hong Kong 35 years ago. Theresa has supported older migrants from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities at Perth’s Chung Wah Community and Aged Care group. Theresa is now the CEO of this organisation, and delivers a range of community care programs for around 800 clients, their families and communities. Theresa helps elderly members of CALD communities to live in... -
BreastScreen WA now coming to Derby 12-20 September 2023 29 June 2023 BreastScreen WA was previously unable to visit Derby due to the unsealed roads caused by flooding across the region. Fortunately, some roads have now been resealed, allowing the BreastScreen WA mobile unit to travel to Derby by detouring through the Northern Territory. We will be in Derby from12-20 Sep 2023 at Derby Aboriginal Health Service, 1 Stanley Street. Bookings will open approximately 6 weeks prior to the visit date. You can book online or by calling 13 20 50. If you wish to make a block bookingand attend with a group, please contact BreastScreen WA at breastscreenwa@health.wa.gov.au. For the mobile schedule click here. -
EveryWoman Expo 2023 another success 19 June 2023 BreastScreen WA had another successful year attending the EveryWoman Expo held from the 16-18 June at Perth Convention Centre. BreastScreen WA's screening truck, Boronia, was on-site to screen eligible women across the weekend, with the support of Administration and Health Promotion staff who booked eligible women in for their appointments. At the end of the weekend, 180 women were screened on the truck at the event, and overall 380 were booked for appointments at the Expo or at one of the 12 permanent BreastScreen WA clinics. The organisation's presence was definitely eye-catching with the large pink truck, pink information booth and merchandise garnering the attention of hundreds of people who walked by, many who expressed they were grateful for BreastScreen WA making the service so convenient and accessible. Well done to all who worked over the weekend, and to the women who decided to... -
Annual Report released 26 April 2023 BreastScreen WA just released the 2022 Annual Report to align with the Accreditation the organisation recently underwent. The purpose of the Accreditation Week was to provide evidence of how the service performs against national standards. The Annual Report was a collaborative project involving all teams of BreastScreen WA. You can read to the Annual Report 2022 here. -
Bidyadanga visit success 03 April 2023 BreastScreen WA's Senior Aboriginal Health Program Officer, Kaylene, travelled up North mid-March to support the screening of women in the rural Aboriginal Community of Bidyadanga. Bidyadanga Aboriginal Community (La Grange) is located on the Kimberley coast of WA, 1590km from Perth and 180km from Broome. The Aboriginal traditional owners of the land are the Karajarri people. Bidyadanga is the largest remote Aboriginal community in Western Australia and is home to the Karajarri, Juwalinny, Mangala, Nyungamarta and Yulpartja language groups. The word Bidyadanga comes from a word for “emu watering hole” (pijarta or bidyada). Kaylene had the honour of being invited into Bidyadanga Aboriginal Community to maintain and strengthen Aboriginal engagement between community and BSWA whilst promoting the importance of breast screening with the ladies in community before the BSWA mobil...
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17/01/2023