Gold Coast Health has won a national health industry award for embedding a culture of transformation to support frontline staff in delivering better health outcomes for patients.

Friday 25 November 2022 marked the official launch of the Gold Coast Health First Nations Health Equity Strategy.

Mother of two, Jenny Bull, is extremely grateful for routine screening that helped save her life. She feels “very lucky” and grateful she had her breast screen when she did, after her latest routine screening mammogram led to a diagnosis of stage 2 invasive breast cancer.

Babies, children and teenagers who are faced with a life changing diagnosis are being gifted Oli's Gift craft boxes that are created by kids for kids through generous donations

Sophie is Midwifery Navigator who specialises in caring for pregnant women with complex medical diseases, high-risk obstetric complications or complex fetal anomalies requiring dedicated support. 

Gold Coast Health has unveiled a stunning new public art exhibition by artist Kym Hart, who is donating 25 per cent of sales to the Gold Coast Hospital Foundation.

Emergency Department nurse Kate Carmody has been awarded the Community Dedication and Social Justice Award at this year’s Gold Coast Women in Business Awards. 

Bee Schaeche is a Midwifery Navigator with our Millerri-Nyumbarlian Midwifery Navigator service. The service provides care and education throughout pregnancy and in the postnatal period for women with specific health needs in the community, which may include women with a history of significant mental health issues or a trauma background.

Passionate researchers from across Gold Coast’s public health service and universities are preparing to showcase their latest outcomes during the annual two-day Research Showcase on 8 and 9 November.

Parents are being reminded of the importance of immunisation against polio to protect their young children from getting the disease which took a global effort to eradicate from many parts of the world.

Our Public Health Physician Dr Kate Alexander says polio can infect a person of any age, but mainly affects children under five years of age. Most infections cause mild symptoms but it can lead to severe disease including paralysis in about one in 200 cases. Earlier this year the virus was detected in wastewater in the US, UK and Israel.