Bendigo women's football league set to kick off with BCHS support

It’s great to be part of the excitement around the new Central Victorian Football League Women's kicking off on Saturday.

We are sponsoring the new league because AFL Central Victoria supports a focus on health and wellbeing.

Our support of the new football league continues our ongoing commitment to looking after the health of women across the Bendigo region with our Women’s Health Clinic and new Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Hub at our Hargreaves Street site in Bendigo.

AFL Central Victoria has put plenty of work into the new league and it was fantastic to hear the captains from the five teams talking at the official launch last night about how much everyone was looking forward to being part of the historic competition.

It’s clear there’s a lot of new players thrilled to get their chance at playing footy, many being mums and sisters of players from the men’s teams who thought that opportunity would never come.

Bendigo mental health the focus of our #5ways to wellbeing campaign

Good mental health is essential to living a happy and healthy life.

It’s about how you are feeling and dealing with daily life.

From May 28 to June 1 we’re hosting #5ways to wellbeing - five days of fun activities designed to remind the community why wellbeing is important.

Which one(s) will you take part in?

Day 1: Take Notice

Monday, May 28

We want you to nominate someone making a positive impact on our city! It could be the person who cooks the BBQ at your children’s sport, goes out of their way to make the office happy or a neighbour who brings your bin in (when you forget). We’ll choose five winners to show #5ways people do something positive to make their community better. Oh, yes, each winner gets a great prize! So, who are you nominating?

Get a nomination form by emailing our #5ways team on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. today.

Day 2: Give

Tuesday, May 29

Bendigo doctor - Fifth new GP joins our medical practice this year with a sixth on the way

We’re excited to welcome Dr Ridmi Ranasinghe to our medical practice at Eaglehawk.

Dr Ridmi is the fifth new doctor to join BCHS in 2018 and opens her appointment book to families and individuals.

On the first day of the new school term we will make that six new doctors for the year with a GP joining our rapidly expanding GPs in Schools program.

In more good news for our medical practice, Dr Jaskarandip Singh has stayed on to work full-time with us after completing his medical registrar training.

To see new GPs coming to Bendigo to work is great for the city especially in a time where there is so much talk and concern about doctor shortages in rural areas.

We continue to build our bulk billing medical practice with the belief we can deliver better care to those most in need in our community.

To book an appointment at our medical practice call 5448 1600