Doctors and nurses from Gold Coast Health’s neurology department are using National Stroke Week to educate the community on how to recognise common signs of stroke and minimise their own risk.

Clinical Nurse Consultant Haylee Berrill recommends the F.A.S.T test as an easy way to remember the most common signs of a stroke.

Service providers and the Gold Coast community now have the opportunity to shape a regional plan to identify priorities for developing and integrating mental health, suicide prevention, alcohol and other drug services.

Abdominal pains, chest pain and viral infections were the top three reasons for 15,117 presentations to Gold Coast Health emergency departments during July 2019.

Gold Coast Health is launching a new Creative Health Hub to help enhance patient outcomes and promote staff wellbeing through visual, performing and literary arts. 

Teams from across the health service headed to Metricon Stadium this month to assist some of the City’s most vulnerable people.

A new ultrasound training initiative is helping Gold Coast Health emergency department clinicians to find a patient’s vein during cannulation thanks to an Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF) research grant.

The innovative spirit of the Gold Coast Health workforce was on display at last week’s The Improvers, with 18 great ideas featured for improving patient care.

The Gold Coast Public Health Unit is responding to two cases of measles involving two members of the same family.

Gold Coast Health has won both state and national awards as part of a unique life-saving blood drive with the Australian Red Cross Blood Service

Gold Coast Health staff are encouraging community members to sign up to the national organ donor register during DonateLife Week.