{"id":13689,"date":"2021-11-03T06:10:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T06:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=13689"},"modified":"2021-11-03T06:10:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T06:10:29","slug":"solid-foundations-for-the-future-of-stem-cell-transplants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/11\/03\/solid-foundations-for-the-future-of-stem-cell-transplants\/","title":{"rendered":"Solid foundations for the future of stem cell transplants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Liberal and Nationals Government is helping refine the delivery of life-saving stem cell and bone marrow transplants for patients with blood or immune disorders, and those receiving chemotherapy or radiation treatment.<br \/>\nHaemopoietic progenitor cells (HPC) are self-renewing stem cells which can change and mature into all blood cell types. A HPC transplant regenerates bone marrow and blood-forming systems, potentially saving or extending the recipient\u2019s life.<br \/>\nFederal Regional Health Minister, Dr David Gillespie said the new National HPC Framework spans Commonwealth and state and territory governments, delivering on a commitment to enhance future operations and management of the Australian HPC sector.<br \/>\n\u201cThis will set strong foundations for robust decision-making and future arrangements across the HPC sector, helping to guide clinicians, advocates and policy-makers,\u201d Dr Gillespie said.<br \/>\n\u201cWe know that demand for transplants is increasing; in 1996\u201397 there were 237 donor searches, while in 2019\u201320 there were more than 900.<br \/>\n\u201cOur Government is committed to improving access to HPC transplants for Australian patients, whether they have leukemia or other blood disorders, or are undergoing chemo or radiation therapy, which can damage their blood-forming system.\u201d<br \/>\nDr Gillespie said the principles within the framework cover important issues across the HPC sector including national consistency, governance and oversight, funding and sustainability, donor registration and retention, collection, searching and matching, and ethics and research.<br \/>\nThe Framework was informed by a 2018 Review of the HPC sector in addition to targeted consultation. Its development has been a collaborative effort by all jurisdictions and the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).<br \/>\nA copy of the National HPC Framework is available on the Department of Health<a href=\"https:\/\/health.gov.au\/resources\/publications\/national-haemopoietic-progenitor-cell-hpc-framework%5d\">\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Liberal and Nationals Government is helping refine the delivery of life-saving stem cell and bone marrow transplants for patients with blood or immune disorders, and those receiving chemotherapy or radiation treatment. Haemopoietic progenitor cells (HPC) are self-renewing stem cells which can change and mature into all blood cell types. A HPC transplant regenerates bone &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/11\/03\/solid-foundations-for-the-future-of-stem-cell-transplants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Solid foundations for the future of stem cell transplants&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}