Lived experience powerful support for mental health carers
Two carers receiving support from Gold Coast Health’s Carer Peer Workers have shared their stories in a bid to reduce mental health stigma and make a difference to other families impacted by mental illness.
Art festival true to the beat of Mental Health Week
A main event in the Gold Coast Health calendar is in full-swing as the health service celebrates the creative strengths of people living with mental health illness for Queensland Mental Health Week.
Seven years of tertiary level care
The move from the old Gold Coast Hospital to the Gold Coast University Hospital was considered the biggest planned hospital move in Australia’s history at the time.
Gold Coast home to world first robotic clot retrieval
The first stroke patient in the world to have a large brain blood vessel clot treated with a robotic arm has been reunited with the Gold Coast Health clinical team who performed the groundbreaking procedure at Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH) this year.
Speech pathology gives Kent back his voice
Kent Druery had a fast-paced career managing shopping centres, trained for triathlons, commentated at sporting events and was raising two teenage boys with wife Julia when he suddenly lost the ability to communicate four years ago.
World-class healthcare perfected through new simulation collaborative
In the first of its kind, a Bond University and Gold Coast Health partnership will help transform healthcare teams and systems worldwide through the provision of hyper-realistic, scenario-based training which is quite literally delivered ‘on the job’.
World Breastfeeding Week highlights support all year round
This World Breastfeeding Week, Cherie Fothergill wants new mothers to know there is support for them all year round.
Gold Coast sepsis research leads to up-sized fluid treatment study
Findings from a Gold Coast Health driven investigation into the use of intravenous fluids in sepsis management in emergency patients will be used as the foundation for a larger, $2.33M randomised controlled trial.
Simulation puts surgical excellence at trainees' fingertips
A Gold Coast Health virtual reality program is finessing the laparoscopic skills of tomorrow’s surgeons before they operate on patients, improving safety and saving hundreds theatre time hours in the process.
Emergency care researchers probe pandemic impacts
Gold Coast Health researchers have put the impacts of COVID-19 on emergency care under the microscope after securing almost $120,000 from the Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF).
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