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Gold Coast Health News

The latest news at Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service.

Gold Coast Health doctor lands study grant looking at improving sedation in children

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.


Cyber consults make tube-weaning child’s play

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.


American professor praises our suicide prevention work

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


Gold Coast continues commitment to quality and timely care

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.


New Gold Coast Health app aims to improve clinical care at the end of life

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


Symposium attracts top neurotrauma presenters

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.


Free program ensures teens protected from life-threatening diseases

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


Promising signs for patients in rapid response care trial

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.


Clinical trial aims to change lives for MND patients

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).


Graduate nurses and midwives begin healthcare adventure

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