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There’s no place quite like home
Kilcoy Hospital Registered Nurse Anita Morgan.
Sam’s X-Ray skills helping make life little easier
Sam has completed special X-ray training to make life a little easier for the local community.
Potential privacy breach at RBWH Head and Neck Clinic
Metro North Health is responding to a potential privacy breach involving patients of the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital head and neck clinic.
Congratulations Professor Michael Schuetz
JTI would like to offer congratulations to Professor Michael Schuetz who was recently appointed as Chair of the Australian Orthopaedic Association (AOA) Research Committee, for a term of four years.
Stars shine at STARS Pfizer vaccination clinic
Our Community and Oral Health team are playing a significant role in supporting the COVID-19 vaccine rollout across Metro North.
Deadly smiles broaden at Nundah
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community has access to an innovative new mobile oral health screening service.
Community trial to enhance care of the older person
A new, innovative trial has begun to safely support the acute and long-term care needs of the elderly in Metro North who have complex and chronic health conditions associated with ageing.
Caboolture Hospital doctor uses COVID-19 experience to inform patient care
Melbourne’s Jack Cooper is one of 17 new medical interns who has launched his career as a doctor at Caboolture Hospital this year, moving to the Sunshine State from Victoria.
Delirium awareness key to early diagnosis
Staff at The Prince Charles Hospital (TPCH) will wear yellow on 17 March for World Delirium Day, to raise awareness about one of the most under-diagnosed and misunderstood cognitive conditions worldwide.
Advanced Care Planning Week at RBWH
Between 22-26 March 2021, RBWH will be encouraging all Australians to discuss their future healthcare preferences with their loved ones for Advanced Care Planning Week.
Metro North celebrates strong female workforce this International Women’s Day
#ChoosetoChallenge: the theme of 2021’s International Women’s Day campaign and a phrase many women just like STARS Security Coordinator Wendy Roestenburg have adopted as their mantra in the workplace.
Queensland’s first new digital hospital STARS is ready for business
Healthcare, including elective surgery, is now underway at STARS and is set to reduce patient wait lists and increase access to specialist treatment for approximately 100,000 Queenslanders each year.
$10M Herston Biofabrication Institute Opens
Health Minister Yvette D’Ath and Metro North Health staff officially opened the Herston Biofabrication Institute this week, set to advance healthcare research and technologies in Queensland.
Research study may find new therapies for heart failure sufferers
A research group at The Prince Charles Hospital (TPCH) is investigating the cause of abnormal heart rhythms in people with advanced heart failure, to help identify potential new therapies.
How love and loss affects our hearts
When broken hearts are real and time really does heal: how love and loss affects our hearts.
Heart transplant gives Nathan wave of hope for future
When Nathan Pain blacked out on his surfboard while waiting to catch a wave, he would never have thought he was about to need a new heart.
Metro North and QUT awarded grant for COVID-19 surface research
Leading researchers at Metro North Hospital and Health Service and QUT have been awarded more than $500,000 from the Australia-India Strategic Research Fund to assist with their work into virus reduction from surfaces.
Metro North Australia Day Achievement Awards 2021
Recognising, rewarding and celebrating staff achievements is an integral part of the Values in Action framework, and helps make Metro North a great place to work.
New name for Caboolture Hospital crane ‘Lifty Shifty’
Six-year-old student, Elliot, has won $1000 worth of books for Caboolture Special School, after suggesting the name ‘Lifty Shifty’ for one of the tower cranes to be installed at the Caboolture Hospital Redevelopment construction site.
163 new doctors kick off careers at Metro North
The next generation of doctors will be welcomed across Metro North this week as 163 medical interns take up residence across the hospitals on Brisbane’s northside.
RBWH receives international recognition for COVID-19 response
Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH) has been named as one of five Australian health services to be recognised in the International Hospital Federation’s (IHF) Beyond the Call of Duty for COVID-19 recognition program.
TPCH doctor recognised for research efforts
A young doctor at TPCH has been recognised for her research endeavours after becoming the recipient of two notable research awards.
Celebrating our staff
Outstanding staff achievements were on show at the annual Metro North Staff Excellence Awards. From more than 140 nominations, judges selected winners and highly commended recipients from across the health service.
World-first treatment for silicosis underway at The Prince Charles Hospital
Clinicians and Researchers from The Prince Charles Hospital (TPCH) and the University of Queensland (UQ) have developed whole lung lavage, a ground-breaking new treatment that provides hope to those suffering with artificial stone silicosis.
Metro North Gender Service takes expertise Australia-wide and snaps up top award
The Metro North Gender Service based at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH) has won the 2020 Trans Community Virtual Awards as Service Provider of the Year.
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Viral fragments of SARS-CoV-2 have been confirmed in sewage during recent routine testing upstream from the Luggage Point and Oxley Creek Wastewater Treatment Plants, offering a timely reminder that anyone with COVID-19 symptoms should get tested. The fragments could indicate the presence of an undiagnosed case of COVID-19 in the community or that a case who is no longer infectious is still shedding fragments of the virus. Symptoms include fever, cough, sore throat, runny nose, fatigue, diarrhoea, nausea or vomiting, and loss of taste or smell. For information on Metro North's fever clinics please visit bit.ly/3n6SHXr.
Viral fragments of SARS-CoV-2 have been confirmed in sewage during recent routine testing from several locations, including:
👉 Luggage Point upstream location (I)
👉 Luggage Point upstream location (J)
This offers a timely reminder that anyone with COVID-19 symptoms should get tested. The fragments could either indicate the presence of an undiagnosed case of COVID-19 in the community or that a case who is no longer infectious is still shedding fragments of the virus. Symptoms include fever, cough, sore throat, runny nose, fatigue, diarrhoea, nausea or vomiting, and loss of taste or smell.
For information on Metro North's fever clinics please visit bit.ly/3n6SHXr.
Looking to feel EAR-replaceable in your next fellowship position? Look no further than the RBWH Head and Neck Fellowship currently being advertised via the link in the comments below. 👇 #WorkforusWednesday
Talk about a triple threat! 🔬 Professor Ian Yang (left), Dr Fran Kinnear (middle), and Associate Professor Henry Marshall (right) are all contributing to lung and thoracic research, despite working on different individual and team projects. 🥽🧬🧪
"We take insights from the lab straight to the bedside, it's direct patient care from acute emergency to critical care," Associate Professor Marshall said.
"It's not always easy but if you're willing to take the risk and the opportunity, then you've got to go for it," Dr Kinnear said.
"The strength of collaboration from both the clinical and research teams at TPCH mean that we're advancing the healthcare on offer here for our community, to have it recognised is a great honour for us all," Professor Yang said.
Professor Yang, Dr Kinnear and Associate Professor Marshall were each recognised in our Research Excellence Awards for their contribution to individual and team research projects over the last year, based out of #TPCH. 🌟