A baby boom in the city’s north has seen Gold Coast Health launch a community-based midwifery service at Upper Coomera to provide families with access to maternity care closer to home.

The annual ideas boom within Gold Coast Health employee ranks has uncovered five projects which will directly improve patient care.

The Improvers is a staff innovation program which rewards winning ideas with the funds to bring the initiatives to life and improve the health service. 

This year 14 finalists were given an opportunity to present their ideas to a judging panel, which included Department of Health Director General Michael Walsh and Health and Ambulance Services Minister Cameron Dick.

As Gold Coast Health prepares to host its annual staff innovation competition the Gold Coast Bulletin talked to three past winners and their projects and where they are now.

Health priorities and funding in Queensland will be set based on four key priorities following the development of a vision and 10-year strategy for the health system.

Gold Coast Health has paid tribute to the thousands of nurses and midwives who go above and beyond in the call of duty to care for Gold Coast patients.

Gold Coast Health is using the latest technology and clinical simulations to foster the talents of the next generation of nurses and midwives.

An aim to ‘personalise’ specific treatment for cancer patients, enabling them to get the most effective drug the first time, is the aim of cutting-edge research at Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH) and Griffith University.

Youth Cancer Nurse Consultant Anita Cox will travel to the 1st Global Youth Cancer Congress in Edinburgh in December after being awarded a $5000 bursary from the Leukaemia Foundation and charity Team Adem.

Bodysurfers are much more likely to suffer neck injuries than surfers, a leading Gold Coast Health neurosurgeon says.

Twelve Gold Coast Health midwives use the Birth Centre in Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH) to deliver the successful model of care to more than 450 women a year.