The Gold Coast Public Health Unit has been notified of a confirmed case of measles on the Gold Coast in an overseas traveller. The individual had contact with the community while unknowingly infectious between Tuesday 02/07/2019 to Thursday 04/07/2019 whilst on the Gold Coast. The individual has now recovered and is no longer infectious.

The individual was in the following locations while infectious:

A baby boom across the Gold Coast has motivated Gold Coast Health to launch a new community-based midwifery service at Varsity Lakes to provide families with access to maternity care closer to home.

Premature babies in the neonatal intensive care unit at Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH) are listening to recordings of their mothers reading The Tale of Peter Rabbit on an iPod as part of a study on the effect of sound in neonatal environments.

The emergency department at Gold Coast University Hospital has been elevated to a level-one trauma service, ranking it as one of the best trauma centres in Australia.

Gold Coast Health has become the first health service in Australia to introduce a new program that endeavours to prevent eating disorders by arming parents with important tools and knowledge to prevent eating disorders in their children.

A new support group, the first of its kind in Queensland, is providing mothers with high-risk pregnancies an outlet to talk about their feelings with peers in similar situations.

Queensland’s Health Minister is urging Gold Coast residents to get their flu jabs as the Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service braces for another flu season.

A Gold Coast Health doctor has landed a $60,000 grant from the Emergency Medicine Foundation to look at how to make sedation a less stressful experience for children.

A coaching program which supports infants and children to eat again after being tube fed for medical reasons is enriching the lives of Gold Coast families.

An American psychiatry professor recently visited Gold Coast Health to talk to staff about the health service’s proactive suicide prevention work.