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Events
Allied Health Research Symposium
Date: 17 February 2026
Time: 8:00am-4:00pm
Venue: Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital Education Centre, Herston, Queensland, 4029
Metro North Health and Metro South Health are pleased to invite you to its second Allied Health Research Symposium.
Advanced Life Support - Level 2
Date: 19 – 20 February 2026
Time: TBC
Venue: The Prince Charles Hospital
2-day course focusing on developing advanced skills in managing the deteriorating patient and cardiac arrest
Queensland Health Spirometry Training Program - Virtual workshop FULL
Date:27 February 2026
8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Venue: Virtual workshop
The Spirometry training program provides clinicians with the skills, knowledge and specific competencies required to perform spirometry to international standards and Queensland Health guidelines.
We’re looking for a Chief Allied Health Practitioner at Metro North Health, with a permanent full-time role now advertised for a strategic leader to set the tone for our allied health workforce! 🗣️🥙🥼👣🏃♂️➡️
Allied health makes up an enormous part of what we do across our hospitals and community health settings, and we need the right person for this special role.
The role would suit someone with executive leadership skills to develop vision, lead change, and ensure continued growth of our allied health team.
If you know someone who would be perfect for this role, tag them below or share this within your network. For more information (and to apply) head to the link in our comments.
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We’re looking for a Chief Allied Health Practitioner at Metro North Health, with a permanent full-time role now advertised for a strategic leader to set the tone for our allied health workforce! 🗣️🥙🥼👣🏃♂️➡️
Allied health makes up an enormous part of what we do across our hospitals and community health settings, and we need the right person for this special role.
The role would suit someone with executive leadership skills to develop vision, lead change, and ensure continued growth of our allied health team.
If you know someone who would be perfect for this role, tag them below or share this within your network. For more information (and to apply) head to the link in our bio
As the Hyperbaric Medical Service (HMS) at RBWH clock up their 50,000th patient, we`re learning they treat more than just divers with `the bends`. 🤿
The HMS crew provide oxygen therapy in a state-of-the-art hyperbaric chamber, (one of the largest in the southern hemisphere) with only eight percent of patients treated for decompression illness.
They also manage people with radiation injuries, serious soft tissue infections, and chronic wounds like patient Gordon, by increasing the amount of oxygen in the blood to aid recovery. 🫁🩸
Gordon`s hospital journey started in November, and he is experienced in the HMS process, having more than 35 `dives` under his belt.
"The feeling during the dive is quite remarkable, a little bit like a wine buzz without the ill effects," he laughs.
"It`s a similar concept to what is felt on a plane flight, but in reverse here in the cabin.
"Oxygen therapy makes a tangible difference; it`s amazing how much your whole body feels the enhanced effects of an oxygenated blood supply, including a heightened ability at solving puzzles while in the chamber.
"Technology is amazing, and I feel like the treatment has helped."
"I used to love reading a good murder mystery and sewing my own clothes. We didn`t have kids of our own, but I made all the clothes for myself and our three great-nieces. These days it`s puzzles and code crackers that keep my brain going; it`s good because you can pick them up and put them back down. I was a telephonist with Telstra from 1966 until the 90`s and used to socialise often. I still enjoy visiting friends with my husband; it`s important to mix around with others and find a day each week to get out and be social."
💭 Monday Mantra, Coral, 79, Ward 1C Patient at TPCH 🧩🧵🔍🦋.
Patients with a range of serious health conditions are now much closer to innovative therapies and medical devices, thanks to a new Clinical Trials Centre at The Prince Charles Hospital. 🔬📝
It’s the first time in Queensland and only the second time in Australia that a centre of this kind has been built within a hospital, rather than as a standalone facility.
Assistant Nursing Director Jenny is excited about the life-changing opportunities the new centre can offer, not only for our patients who want to take part in trials, but also in freeing up hospital capacity to treat acutely unwell people. ✅🙌
“The new centre can offer investigator‑initiated and industry‑sponsored drug and device trials, observational studies and registries,” Jenny said.
“Evidence-based studies give patients access to new opportunities that will improve the health outcomes for patients at TPCH, Metro North Health and across Queensland.”
