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

In-home service brings hospital care to the homes of sick Gold Coast kids
Young Gold Coasters are among the latest to benefit from a Gold Coast Health service bringing in-hospital healthcare to patients at home or school.

Winning idea gives Gold Coast patients a voice
Gold Coasters with limited communication are benefitting from a Queensland-first lending library of communication devices funded through the annual Gold Coast Health staff innovation awards known as The Improvers.

Health service champions diversity and inclusion
Gold Coast Health has been recognised as a champion of diversity and inclusion through a national campaign to encourage other employers to make their workplace more accessible for people with a disability.

Organ donation is changing lives
Organ donation means the world to some people, especially these three women who are helping to raise public awareness during Donate Life Week.

Therapy dog lends a caring paw to terminally-ill patients
A Delta Society Australia Therapy Dog is playing a very special role in enhancing the well-being of patients in Robina Hospital’s Palliative Care Unit.

Why you should be proud of your health service
Since I began as Chairman of the Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service Board in 2012, we have gone from a regional hospital service to one of the nation’s foremost tertiary facilities.

Gold Coast Health staff rewarded for ideas outside the square
Gold Coast’s premier public health innovation event has awarded more than half a million dollars to staff ideas which will directly improve patient care.

Compassionate care resonates with Gold Coasters
A story on Gold Coast Health’s Facebook page celebrating the efforts nursing staff made to fulfil one of the greatest wishes of a terminally ill inpatient at Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH) has touched the hearts of thousands of Gold Coasters.

School based nurse plays a healthy hand in youth program
Gold Coast Health nurse Lisa Bancroft-Mitchell was among the audience to congratulate a group of at-risk teenage boys when they graduated from a Queensland Police Service mentoring program earlier this month.

Light show keeps child patients entertained
Children who undergo surgery now have a calming ceiling-light show to keep them busy.