Gold Coast Health News
The latest news at Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service.

Small connections powerful in socially distant times
At a time when our ability to bond with each other in person is reduced, every connection counts.

Gold Coast Health doctor embarks on international journey
A Gold Coast Health doctor will spend the next three years in the United Kingdom researching better medical outcomes for children after she was awarded a prestigious scholarship to the University of Oxford.

Gold Coast home to world first robotic clot retrieval
The first stroke patient in the world to have a large brain blood vessel clot treated with a robotic arm has been reunited with the Gold Coast Health clinical team who performed the groundbreaking procedure at Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH) this year.

Speech pathology gives Kent back his voice
Kent Druery had a fast-paced career managing shopping centres, trained for triathlons, commentated at sporting events and was raising two teenage boys with wife Julia when he suddenly lost the ability to communicate four years ago.

World-class healthcare perfected through new simulation collaborative
In the first of its kind, a Bond University and Gold Coast Health partnership will help transform healthcare teams and systems worldwide through the provision of hyper-realistic, scenario-based training which is quite literally delivered ‘on the job’.

Graduate nurse uses her own journey to help patients
Georgia McLennan has been told all her life she would make a great nurse but the 26-year-old had no idea she would find herself as a patient while embarking on her dream career.

World Breastfeeding Week highlights support all year round
This World Breastfeeding Week, Cherie Fothergill wants new mothers to know there is support for them all year round.

Local tv news showcases research into impact of pandemic on ED
An Emergency Medicine Foundation grant will help Professor Julia Crilly, Professor Gerben Keijzers and research colleagues put the impacts of COVID-19 on emergency care under the microscope.

Gold Coast sepsis research leads to up-sized fluid treatment study
Findings from a Gold Coast Health driven investigation into the use of intravenous fluids in sepsis management in emergency patients will be used as the foundation for a larger, $2.33M randomised controlled trial.

Simulation puts surgical excellence at trainees' fingertips
A Gold Coast Health virtual reality program is finessing the laparoscopic skills of tomorrow’s surgeons before they operate on patients, improving safety and saving hundreds theatre time hours in the process.