Tugun Satellite Hospital (Banyahrmabah) has celebrated its first birthday, marking one year since the Minor Injury and Illness Clinic opened on 15 November 2023. 

James Dunlop is the new Senior Peer Coordinator at the Secure Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit (SMHRU). 

With a strong commitment to peer-led care and a lived experience approach, James is passionate about empowering both consumers and peer workers on their recovery journeys.

Trudy Smith will be the Nurse Unit Manager of Banksia (B1), one of two new wards at the soon to be opened Secure Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit (SMHRU). Her leadership will be instrumental as the facility prepares to open its first 20 beds in early 2025.  

Gold Coast Health’s annual ArtBeat Music and Arts Festival was celebrated during Mental Health Week to showcase the creative strengths of people living with mental illness on the Gold Coast.

Following overwhelmingly positive feedback from patients, the Robina Transfer Unit shuttle service has been given a 12-month extension.

Rheumatology patients at Gold Coast Health now have access to a new digital messaging platform using Foxo software, connecting them directly to the Rheumatology services team.

Gold Coast Health has moved to 100% paper-free transfer of care for endoscopies, eliminating 15,000 paper letters from our Gastroenterology unit each year and saving hundreds of staff hours.

Artificial intelligence (AI) could soon diagnose swallowing difficulties in critically unwell children using sound, reducing the need for costly, radiation-exposing x-rays and making diagnosis more accessible for clinicians worldwide.

Gold Coast University Hospital is the first hospital in Australia to introduce a rehabilitation robot, ROBERT, to fast-track recovery and deliver better patient outcomes. The robot provides high repetition robotic therapy to help rehabilitate patients effectively under the supervision of clinicians.

Meet Assistant Director of Nursing (ADON) Clinical Lead for the new Coomera Hospital Michelle Havell. At just 26, Michelle became the youngest Nurse Unit Manager (NUM) within Gold Coast Health at the time.