With conversations about health dominated by COVID-19 for the past 12 months, Gold Coast Health Clinical Nurse Consultant Debbie Royal says World Cancer Day (4 February 2021) is a good time to stop and remember that other health battles continue.

Gold Coast Health dietitian Rumbi Mutsekwa spent as long as she could avoiding doing a PhD, but the task eventually caught up with her.

“My mum died in hospital but I was able to care for my dad at home for end of life – I had absolutely no idea what I was doing,” she said.

Linda Bradbury has more than 20 years’ nursing experience in the field of rheumatology and was the first rheumatology nurse practitioner (NP) to be endorsed and work in Australia.

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GOLD Coast families who have experienced pre-term births are being reunited earlier thanks to a new Gold Coast Health service which aims to get premature babies home earlier.

Helen Delaney was given eight months to live but thanks to what she calls her “miracle juice” the Gold Coast grandmother will spend another wonderful Christmas with her family – more than two and half years on from her diagnosis.

COVID-19 has not slowed down the performance of Gold Coast Health with many improvements being recorded across the service in the annual report for the 2019-2020 financial year.

34-year-old Gold Coast Health patient Shawn Komidar has lost count of how many times he has broken bones since he was a child but estimates the number is somewhere in the vicinity of 50.

Much-loved Robina Medical Assessment Unit Clinical Nurse Consultant Dean Hamilton was this week remembered by his work colleagues, family and friends in a touching ceremony.