Gold Coast Health patients whose excess weight is a major risk factor are being guided towards better health outcomes by Queensland’s first Obesity Nurse Navigator.

Gold Coast Health’s Interventional Neurovascular specialists impressed an audience of more than 600 physicians at a conference in India when they performed a complex endovascular brain aneurysm procedure via video link from Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH).

Associate Professor Hal Rice and the Neurointerventional Radiology team performed the livestream video as a key feature of the fourth annual conference for the Society of Therapeutic Neuro Intervention in Kolkata in February. 

It was a case of role reversal for a group of Gold Coast Health staff who volunteered to be patients in the Trauma Service’s first mass casualty simulation with local volunteer emergency responders earlier this week. 

An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander liaison officer has been appointed to work with culturally important “women’s business” in Gold Coast Health.

Catherine Li answered an SOS at the start of the coronavirus response which has proven vital to delivering quality patient care in challenging circumstances.

Queensland Health is urging parents to tune into its new mini documentary ‘Square Eyes’, in a bid to make future generations screen smart. 

Gold Coast University Hospital welcomed some famous Korean actors who filmed scenes for a new drama series which will be watched by millions from next month.

In an Australian first, a galactic-themed simulation experience is preparing young Gold Coast Health patients for stress-free CT and MRI scans through play.

Supporting the oldest rule of medicine - first, do no harm, a study co-funded by the Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF) is expected to cause a major shift in thinking around how doctors worldwide treat a collapsed lung. 

Griffith University has received $1.5 million in funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, and matched support from national and state health partners ($2.1 million), to improve the experience for thousands who require peripheral intravenous (IV) catheters.