Nganampa Health Council, SANganampa Health Council is an Anangu community controlled health organisation which has provided comprehensive primary health care services to the Anangu Pitjantjatjara (A.P.) Lands, situated in the far north-west of South Australia, for the past 20 years. There are six major clinics and three health worker stations. In addition to high quality 24 hour a day primary clinical care, the organisation delivers a range of public health and targeted program activity, including a developing aged and disability care program. Health worker training and support is a key activity. Nganampa has achieved major gains in areas such as child health, immunisation, growth monitoring, antenatal care, sexually transmitted disease control and treatment of chronic diseases. The health service has a sustained national reputation for best practice clinical services, leading edge collaborative program research and development and for the collection of outcome data as a basis for ongoing evaluation. It has remained the leading employer of Anangu people on the A.P. Lands.
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