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Gold Coast Health News

The latest news at Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service.

Dr Raj Sawney

Gold Coast Medical shines a national light on Gold Coast Health's medical expertise

If you watched last night’s first episode of Gold Coast Medical, you will recognise our Director of Plastics Raja Sawhney.


ArtBeat brings people together for Mental Health Week

A community event at Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH) today provided a platform for people living with mental illness to celebrate their creative strengths.


Amy Pech and Pam Brandis

Theatre nurses scrub up for national spotlight

They are the steady hands and calming voices you hear as you drift under anaesthetic before an operation and afterwards when you wake up in recovery.


annual report

Unprecedented growth in Gold Coast Health services

The Gold Coast Health 2015-16 annual report paints a picture of enormous outpatient growth, unprecedented activity in its emergency departments and waiting times slashed.


 Patient Claire Holland undergoing treatment using the DIBH equipment at GCUH.

Extra heart protection for GCUH breast cancer patients

New technology at Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH) is protecting patient’s hearts from radiation doses during breast cancer treatment.


Ron Calvert and Philip Truskett

Gold Coast Health and RACS sign MoU to improve respectful culture

Gold Coast Health and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) as a commitment to providing high quality training, education and experience in surgery and the health sector.


Wildlife characters take up residence in children’s unit

Wildlife characters take up residence in children’s unit

A makeover of the Gold Coast University Hospital inpatient children’s ward is lifting the spirits of patients and their families thanks to a local artist and his vibrant Australiana wildlife images.


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Shaken Baby Syndrome focussed during Child Protection Week

As little as 30 seconds of violent shaking can cause a baby’s death, according to Gold Coast Health’s Child Protection Advisor Dr Kerry Sullivan, a long-term paediatrician.


Jackie Atkinson with a poster created by students at a Love Bites program.

Gold Coast students say no to violent relationships

A school-based domestic and family violence and sexual assault program running in Gold Coast schools since 2011 has shaped student attitudes that violent relationships are unacceptable.


Gold Coast Health leads nation's first NED service

Gold Coast Health leads nation's first NED service

Gold Coast Health will become Australia’s leading centre for the diagnosis and intervention of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder when it launches a statewide Neurodevelopment Exposure Disorder (NED) Service today.