It was advice from someone important in her life that prompted Kim to start a career in social work – despite not knowing what it was.

“Younger is better. Parents should get on to any potential hearing issues as soon as possible,” she said.

“The kids were telling me for ages, ‘you are going deaf Dad’ and they used to call me ‘Hey’ because that’s what I said all of the time,” Patrick said.

Several Gold Coast Health Emergency Department (ED) staff have been recognised for their humanitarian work in the Philippines, in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in 2013.

A new stop for BreastScreen Queensland’s mobile service will help boost access to free breast cancer screening for women from Nerang and surrounding areas.

With conversations about health dominated by COVID-19 for the past 12 months, Gold Coast Health Clinical Nurse Consultant Debbie Royal says World Cancer Day (4 February 2021) is a good time to stop and remember that other health battles continue.

Gold Coast Health dietitian Rumbi Mutsekwa spent as long as she could avoiding doing a PhD, but the task eventually caught up with her.

“My mum died in hospital but I was able to care for my dad at home for end of life – I had absolutely no idea what I was doing,” she said.

Linda Bradbury has more than 20 years’ nursing experience in the field of rheumatology and was the first rheumatology nurse practitioner (NP) to be endorsed and work in Australia.

GOLD Coast families who have experienced pre-term births are being reunited earlier thanks to a new Gold Coast Health service which aims to get premature babies home earlier.