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

The importance of organ donation
Kate Dale, Gold Coast Health Trauma Nurse Practitioner, shares her personal story of organ donation:
One August morning my Mum Jeanette and Dad Peter woke together and laid in bed for a while listening to the news on the radio. Unchained Melody played on the radio that morning, this was one of their favourite songs.

Gold Coast Health appoints new directorate leaders
Gold Coast Health has made four appointments to its Executive Management Team as it delivers on its purpose to provide excellent evidence-based healthcare that meets the needs of the Gold Coast community.

Public forum puts focus on research around dementia
Gold Coast Health together with the Menzies Health Institute Queensland at Griffith University is inviting people with dementia, their families and caregivers, and aged care workers, to a public forum featuring leading researchers in dementia.

Gold Coast Health to lease former Varsity Lakes surgical hospital from Healthe Care
Gold Coast Health will lease the former Gold Coast Surgical Hospital to deliver more efficient public elective surgery to the local community.

Innovations in healthcare on show as bold future looms
Gold Coast Health will today host local and international leaders in health innovation at a showcase highlighting the ways data and artificial intelligence will disrupt the healthcare industry in the next decade.

The importance of perinatal mental health services
Gold Coast Health perinatal psychiatrist Dr Susan Roberts heads up Queensland’s only inpatient facility offering perinatal and infant mental health services in a public hospital.

Consumers get creative to help break down mental health barriers
Gold Coast Health’s annual event to celebrate the creative strengths of people living with mental illness is set to break new barriers this year.

Measles Alert
Queensland Health has issued a measles alert after a person travelled from Victoria to Brisbane and then to the Gold Coast while infectious.

Gold Coast Health increases health care services
Queensland’s fastest growing public health provider continues to expand services for the Gold Coast community.

Health staff encouraged to talk more amid pressure
Gold Coast Health is using R U OK? Day to empower staff to address stress, depression and wellbeing in the workplace and at home.