10 Jul 2024
Save the date for DonateLife Week 2024
It’s time to grab your calendar and highlight Sunday 28 July to Sunday 4 August 2024 as DonateLife Week. We encourage all Australians to register as organ and tissue donors and be the reason someone else gets a second chance at life.
09 Jul 2024
Breakthrough for better access to palliative care for people with disability
The palliative care sector has welcomed news of a new faster pathway to better meet the needs of people living with disabilities and a terminal diagnosis.
09 Jul 2024
Holistic patient care key for overweight and obesity
New education for GPs supporting patients with overweight and obesity aligns with the latest Red Book recommendations.
09 Jul 2024
NAIDOC Week a time to ‘keep the fire burning’
The celebration is a way to honour past generations while promoting the cultural determinants of health that help keep people and communities well.
09 Jul 2024
Fight ramps up to formalise GPs’ disaster response role
The RACGP say GPs should be integrated into emergency response plans, after doctors were turned away from evacuation centres due to poor planning.
09 Jul 2024
New Clinical Director - Dr Axel Durieux
Dr Durieux is an experienced Medical Oncologist, who has been a full-time Staff Specialist at the W.P. Holman Clinic since June 2016. Prior to moving to Australia, Dr Durieux worked in the UK and in France, his home country.
09 Jul 2024
Recognition for Dr Stan Gauden
Northern Cancer Service honours and recognises the exemplary service of much-respected clinician Dr Stan Gauden.
09 Jul 2024
Celebrating the contributions of Tasmania’s rich Indigenous community through culturally visible nursing scrubs this NAIDOC Week
The Department of Health has today unveiled new nursing and hospital uniforms designed by Tasmanian Aboriginal artist and proud Palawa woman, Takira Simon-Brown during NAIDOC Week.
09 Jul 2024
Celebrating NAIDOC Week through art
Gold Coast Health’s Creative Health Hub is spotlighting the work of artists who embody this year’s NAIDOC Week theme.
09 Jul 2024
First public hospital in Australia to provide innovative incisionless surgery
Gold Coast University Hospital is the first Australian public hospital to offer innovative incisionless surgery for people with disabling neurological conditions like essential tremors