Violence and threatening behaviour occur regularly in our Emergency Departments with as many as 10 Code Black activations per day, which are often a result of threatening, intimidating or violent behaviour directed towards staff.

For most of us, the holiday season means tables piled high with a multitude of delicious dishes that go back into the fridge to be consumed as leftovers for the next few meals.

Inpatient mothers can now access Telehealth breastfeeding classes from the comfort of their beds, during their stay in hospital or from home. 

Today, more than $600,000 was awarded to Gold Coast Health clinicians and researchers dedicated to research that will improve the health outcomes of our patients. 

Seven research projects were funded as part of the Gold Coast Health Collaborative Research Grant Scheme and received up to $100,000 towards their research.

It’s being a part of a great team and making sure people know the importance of oral health that has kept Helen Bartlett coming back to her job each day for the past four decades.

BreastScreen Queensland Gold Coast Service is celebrating 30 years of providing quality care for the local community.
The breast screening service has come a long way since its inception when fewer than 4000 women were seen across the first year in the former Gold Coast Hospital X-ray department.

Elder, grandmother and performer Aunty Delmae Barton and her son William Barton received their second COVID-19 vaccine at Broadbeach Vaccination Centre recently.
She shared her story.

As a sign of our trauma team’s world standing, Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH) has just become the first Chest Wall Injury Society Collaborative Centre in Australia.

Gold Coast Health's Residential Acute Support Services (RASS) program sends doctors and nurses into residential aged-care facilities (RACF) to help reduce older person admissions to hospitals. 

Thanks to the RASS initiative, 1800 people aged 65 and older were cared for at a RACF facility in three months and avoided a trip to emergency departments.  

RASS offers outreach and in-reach service, with the outreach initiative visiting residents in aged care for face-to-face assessment and offering clinical advice over the phone or FaceTime.

Gold Coast Health is taking time out to celebrate the creativity of mental health consumers this Mental Health Week with ‘ArtBeat’ in full swing at Gold Coast University Hospital.