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Gold Coast Health News

The latest news at Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service.

Medicare pilot visit

Digital trial enables speedy enrolment of newborns into Medicare

Gold Coast University Hospital has successfully rolled out a digital trial to make life easier for parents by enabling automatic enrolment of their newborn into Medicare, the Medicare Safety Net and the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register.


Star power helps launch autism animation

Star power helps launch autism animation

Acclaimed Australian actor Hugo Weaving joined Health Minister Cameron Dick and Gold Coast Health Board Chair Ian Langdon at Gold Coast University Hospital on 19 August to launch a short animated film designed to raise awareness of the issues faced by people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).


Dr Sandeep Bhuta

Associate Professor Sandeep Bhuta appointed to prestigious Radiology role

Highly respected Neuroradiologist Dr Sandeep Bhuta will fly the Gold Coast Health flag when he attends the world’s largest medical meeting in an official capacity in later this year.


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Robina Hospital allegations

Gold Coast Health refutes allegations made in Gold Coast Bulletin of 12 August.  Newspaper claims that a bag of unidentified substance was ‘kept quiet’ by Queensland Health are in direct contrast to the facts which were that the hospital provided the bag to police.  The online photo depicted a large quantity of ICE that bore no resemblance to the substance handed to police which equated to about 0.2 gram. All CCTV cameras were confirmed as operating to the newspaper the day before the article was printed.


GCUH Orthopaedic Surgeon Prof Randy Bindra has guided 35 Indian doctors through a two-day surgical training workshop.

GCUH surgeons share knowledge on global scale

Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH) has reinforced its credentials as a leading teaching facility, with more than 30 international surgeons travelling across the globe for a two-day training course.


Fitness program enriching lives of clients with MS

Fitness program enriching lives of clients with MS

Gold Coast Health Multiple Sclerosis client Jo Smith is finding new strength in an innovative program which takes her out of the clinical setting and into the community.


Kim Hurst

Put Perfect: Gold Coast Health research shifting family roles in treating anorexia patients with perfectionism

“The teenagers I treat and their families are so amazing; they have so many internal resources. They’re motivation, compassion and commitment to be well and to be rid of this torturous illness keeps me passionate about my research.”


Proud new dads Sam Thompson (with Olivia), Todd Kennett (Olivia) and Kurt Walker (Aluna) and their bundles of joy born at GCUH

Baby boom sees GCUH heading towards 5000 annual births

old Coast University Hospital (GCUH) is on track to welcome more than 5000 babies in a year for the first time.

2527 babies were born at the hospital during the first half of 2016, compared to 2338 births in the first six months of the previous year.

This included a monster May when 469 babies entered the world at GCUH – an average of almost 15 births per day and a record for the health service.


Ian Langdon with Carol Jason and Gay Leverington

Langdon's mission - Board Chair wants hope for grandson

Almost every day for the past 16 years, Ian Langdon has wondered what the future holds for his autistic grandson, Ky.


Gold Coast Health Paediatric Surgeons Dr Nada Sudhakaran and Dr Deborah Bailey with one of their little patients, six-month-old Lucas Stephens.

Doctor performs small miracles at thriving hospital

NADA Sudhakaran’s patients are so small he had to bring his own surgical instruments when he started at the Gold Coast University Hospital in January.