Gold Coast Health continues to innovate as it looks for new ways to improve waiting times for patients presenting to Australia’s busiest emergency department.

A health app is changing the way GPs and other healthcare professionals help palliative care patients.
 

Some of Gold Coast Health’s top neurotrauma teams are taking time out from the frontline to share their knowledge with more than 200 clinicians and health workers.

Thousands of Gold Coast teenagers are being offered free vaccinations to protect them from cancer and other life-threatening diseases.

Gold Coast Health patients in need of rapid and compassionate mental health care are already benefitting from an initiative being trialled to help reduce emergency department demand.

Gold Coast Health researchers are leading a world-first clinical trial into the effects of medicinal cannabis in treating people living with motor-neurone disease (MND) or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Gold Coast Health has welcomed 142 new nursing and midwifery graduates in 2019.

Queensland Health Director-General Michael Walsh visited Gold Coast University Hospital this month ahead of Gold Coast Health’s digital transformation.

Dr Graham Jay, Director of Paediatric Emergency Medicine Training at Gold Coast University Hospital, recently made a humanitarian trip to Laos to teach junior doctors training in paediatrics.

Six Gold Coast Mental Health and Specialist Services staff have been deployed to help with the relief efforts in Townsville this week, providing support to anyone experiencing significant stress following the disastrous floods.