Gold Coast Health News
The latest news at Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service.

Newly Qualified Nurses and Midwives boost Gold Coast's frontline workforce
A huge cohort of Newly Qualified Nurses and Newly Qualified Midwives have joined Gold Coast Health in the first graduate intake of 2025.

Cardiologist awarded prestigious international fellowship
Interventional Cardiology Fellow at Gold Coast Health, Dr Maggie He has been awarded the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand's prestigious ANZET-UK Intervention Fellowship.

Measles Alert for Gold Coast
Gold Coast Public Health Unit is advising people to be alert for signs and symptoms of measles after a case of measles was on the Gold Coast in January while unknowingly infectious.

Behind the Build with Team Leader of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Aleta Webb
Meet Gold Coast Health Team Leader of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Aleta Webb – one of the clinical brains behind the design of the new Coomera Hospital.

Behind the Build with Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Clinical Nurse Consultant Sebastian (Seb) Clyde
Clinical Nurse Consultant Sebastian Clyde, or “Seb”, has been actively providing input on the development of the new Coomera Hospital as a member of the Project User Group (PUG).

A moment of mindfulness to kick off 2025
A new exhibition showcases the benefits from being present in the moment

Gold Coast Health welcomes 94 new junior doctors
Gold Coast was proud to welcome its largest ever intake of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander junior doctors.

Unnecessary tests and treatments in low-value critical care
Dr Gerben Keijzers is a Senior Staff Specialist Emergency Physician at the Gold Coast University Hospital Emergency Department.
Dr Keijzers balances half of his time between clinical work and academic duties, including teaching medical students and conducting research. His role also includes being an honorary professor of emergency medicine at Bond University and is an associate professor at Griffith University.

Emergency Doctor successful in EMF Queensland funding
Dr Richard Pellatt has successfully secured over $27,000 in funding from the Emergency Medicine Foundation to work on the new project "Drug Overdose with Reduced Consciousness: Patient and Staff Perspectives. A Mixed Methods Study."
Through questionnaires and interviews, the project seeks to understand clinician attitudes to the airway management of patients with drug overdose. Concurrently, Richy and his team will also involve patients, building their narrative into this area of research for the first time.

Proxima lease signed for Child Youth Mental Health Services
The Gold Coast Health's Child Youth Mental Health Services (CYMHS) is expanding to the Proxima building, with a planned opening in late 2025.
This relocation and expansion mark a transformative step in mental health care for young people and their families.
The new facility on Level 6 of the Proxima building, located within the Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct, will provide approximately 1,400 square meters of purpose-built space designed to cater to the mental health needs of young people aged 0-25yrs and their families.