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8 July 2026
Record Deadly Start trainee cohort welcomed as Metro North kicks off NAIDOC Week
NAIDOC Week 2026 is currently underway with the theme “50 Years of Deadly”. To celebrate the week, we welcome a new cohort of Deadly Start trainees.
7 July 2026
Doctors remind kids to play safe this winter
With winter sports now in full force, Brisbane doctors are reminding people about the risks of physical injury.
News , Metro North , TPCH
3 July 2026
Metro North launches Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Leadership Program
Metro North Health has launched the inaugural Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Leadership Program, bringing together emerging leaders, mentors and senior executives to strengthen the future Aboriginal and Torres Strait
2 July 2026
Digital transformation comes to the Oral Health Centre
The Oral Health Centre recently celebrated the first patient to receive dentures designed and manufactured as part of its digitalisation initiative.
Events
Queensland Health Spirometry Training Program – 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.
Advanced Life Support – Level 1 Course
Level 1 courses are for those clinicians who want general competence in airway management and basic life support for a deteriorating patient and cardiac arrest. Suitable if you normally are part of team rather than the lead.
Queensland Health Spirometry Training Program – The Prince Charles Hospital
The Spirometry training program provides clinicians with the skills, knowledge and specific competencies required to perform spirometry to international standards and Queensland Health guidelines.
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Before attending a health science camp in high school, Dr Ella had never considered perusing a career in medicine! But this camp changed her life and set her on the path of becoming an Anaesthetic Registrar at the RBWH. 🫶
As a proud Yirrganydji and Wulgurukaba woman, her goal has always been to be an Aboriginal doctor for Aboriginal people, as well as a role model for young people considering a career in health and medicine.
"Visibility and role models are incredibly important especially to our mob. Our people are the oldest living culture in the world and are therefore the oldest practicing healers in the world and I want people to know that there are Indigenous doctors around and that some of us, like myself, are working here at RBWH," Dr Ella said.
"Having worked in regional and rural areas previously, I know firsthand the geographical discrimination that exists within our healthcare system. Once I specialise in anaesthetics I want to travel to regional and rural areas to offer my skillset to those communities, and close gaps in health inequities.
"If you really want to become a doctor, there will be pathways and support available to you to help you achieve this." 🩺
I'm certain your skills as an Anaesthetist will be hugely appreciated 👏...study hard 😂
That's what happened to me when I trained as an Army medic. I was encouraged to go into nursing as a RN.
You are a legend Ella 🙌
RBWH nursing and midwifery graduates Abby and Mary are loving their first few months on the ward.🏥
Joining our team in February, the new nurses have found themselves in a surgical trauma ward at Queensland's biggest hospital, where the learning opportunities are endless!
Abby, from Darwin originally, moved to Brisbane during university and wanted to stay here to start her career.
"It's a big tertiary hospital and it has a lot to offer. It can be full on at times, but it's awesome to see your improvement each day and your confidence go up," she said.
Mary agreed, noting the supportive team on 9AS that makes learning easier.
"I did a placement here and I really liked it, there's lots of support even though it's a busy ward, and I am getting a diverse mix of skills."
If you're in high school or university and considering a future in nursing, or if you're an experienced nurse looking for a change of pace - come see what RBWH has to offer at our RBWH Nursing and Midwifery Career Open Day on 25 July. More details and a link to register in the comments below. 😀 #WorkforusWednesday
Pop into the RBWH Education Centre on Saturday 25 July from 9:30am - 2pm to learn about a future at RBWH. Register here: forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=CLBlC9eVvEq6_D_8IMA5wIw6TTEEUtlOijk0Gmmks9xUNDVWMERaV...
Please post the link to the Career Open Day, I'm interested 😊
Always remember nursing is not solely done in a hospital, there’s academic, domiciliary, flying doctors, aged care, outback, hospice, Telehealth, prisons, child safety, GP’s, etc etc. Learning much in the hospital setting is expected to get a grip on care but there’s so much more. Anywhere there’s a need there’s a nurse. How do I know? As a nurse for 50 years and only spending 4 years in a hospital setting, the world awaits.
Metro North was a great place to work. Wish I had never left.
We’re celebrating NAIDOC Week all across our Metro North teams this week, with RBWH food services ensuring our patients can get involved too!
RBWH Cook Scott and Indigenous Health Liaison Team Leader Pat have been busy making and delivering Wattleseed cookies to the wards today, in recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their culture. 😋
Awwww Pat! You wonderful human. So fantastic to see your smiling face 🥰
Well done to Scott, Pat and all involved!
Emmanuel City Mission is making an effort to feed the patients who have not got a bed tonight and have medical conditions. Thanks BCC and State government for entering an agreement for night sanctuary funding. So discharge to Emmanuel when homeless people have no answer to a safe place to stay
NAIDOC Week starts today, celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices, culture and resilience. 🖤💛❤️
Dr Adam Scott, who is the Director of Cardiac Sciences at RBWH, has worked hard to make sure these voices are heard throughout the hospital with a school-based art initiative that now runs across five State High Schools.
The idea was born out of a team fundraiser that raised money to purchase art supplies and canvases for the Pine Rivers State High School First Nations Art Program, creating 30 works that are now hung across the RBWH Cardiology Department.
Dr Adam said the goal was to make Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients feel safe coming into the unit.
“There are still many opportunities for growth in the health space around models of care, especially in rural and remote areas. Art is a stepping stone to bring people in the cardio department on the journey, putting health equity front and centre, everywhere we walk," he said.
“I am incredibly passionate about finding innovative solutions to complex, long-standing health challenges. The people I work with every day, both here at the Royal and across our partner facilities, make my role truly enjoyable."
Such deadly work ❤️
Thanks 👍
Pine Rivers State High School
Go aunty Millie!! Melinda Fraser
Tanya Russell
Help make Australia better my husband white I had to put them straight we are born in QLD we payed more taxes for free health in this state get blow inn to pay for their education and health care
OMG another fraud acting aboriginal. Are there no real aboriginal capable.
All you have to do is learn about the birth certificate contract the government puts on you when you are babies. We could have this communist crap stopped in a week. Come and learn... Its called the Cestui Que Vie trust. Also known as the foreign Situs trust. Its Roman Catholic in origin and their corporations are claiming your children as dead commercial entities (Legal PERSONS). Wards of their commercial state govern/ments as their Chattel property. Lookup Joinder under Personage. lookup the Unum Sanctum. Do some research of your own. Your families and country are counting on you. They converted you all from the realm of God and Man, Into the realm of corporations and contracts as legal persons. It all starts and ends with the birth certificate contract. You all need to formally denounce it and UN citizenship and return your standing and allegiance back to the land of the living as Men and Women where your rights and authority in law are. Its a maxim of law that the dead cannot rule over the living. So the government contracts you to be legally dead. (corpse orations) You have a curial right to be the sons of your fathers and the daughters of your mothers. Not Persons / Citizens and Residents, which are dead foreign visitors in law with no inherent rights. King V Casement 1917 - Treason against the realm. lookup - Legal Person Name. (nom de guerre)- Name of War. All of your government documents are fraudulent in law. Birth Certificate > and everything created from it. All National Government corporations are colluding in concealing these facts which amount to war crimes on all of your families worldwide. Its called "Executor de son tort". Legal is the undoing of Gods Law. - encyclopedia britannica (peale 9th edition). Civil Law / Corpus Juris Civilis = Roman Catholisim. 'Capitis Diminutio' The head of your families should be collecting up all LEGAL documents and handing them in at your local courthouse. If you knew how important this is , you would be lined up 10 blocks from the courthouse.
Since 1976, Dr Barry O'Loughlin has dedicated his service to RBWH, serving as a Staff Specialist General Surgeon, Director of Surgery and then as Executive Director of Surgery and Perioperative Services for the last 20 years.
In 2021, he was formally recognised for his outstanding service by being awarded an Order of Australia for his significant contribution to medicine and medical administration.
Throughout this time, Dr Barry has made an exceptional contribution to surgery, patient care, education, and leadership, this week farewelling RBWH and the Queensland Health community.
"What I really like about Royal Brisbane and Metro North is the people, the people that work here become like a second family and I've probably spent close to as much time at work as I have at home," Dr Barry said.
"Really I'm just a country boy who was lucky enough to get to medical school and then even luckier to train and become a surgeon.
"I've never forgotten the privilege that I've had and the opportunities that I've been given, not only by my parents but also by my employers including the Royal Brisbane, Metro North and Queensland Health."
👏A massive #ShoutoutSaturday to Dr Barry, we wish him all the best for his next chapter in retirement.
Congratulations Barry and Anna. Enjoy this next exciting time of your lives.
Such accolades bring tears to my eyes Cuz. ❤️
Congratulations Barry! Incredible contribution and amazing leadership. Enjoy your retirement!
Dr O’loughlin was my consultant in my second term of internship. He was a true gentleman, with his patients and colleagues alike. I remain incredibly grateful for the kind and gentle leadership he role-modeled.
Enjoy retirement You will be missed
Well deserved BOL
Congratulations on your retirement!! so many great memories working in your OPD clinics at RBWH with so many amazing people!! That was such a long time ago but will always remember you well…. 🌟❤️
Lovely to see all the accolades to a wonderful man and surgeon who was a joy to work beside him in the operating room. Never forgotten even though I retired 20 years ago.
Thanks for bringing out the best in everyone BOL. It was a privilege to work with you and to see your leadership first hand. I hope you enjoy many mornings reading the paper in the sun and travels
Congratulations Barry. What an amazing career and true dedication to your patients and coworkers. Thank you for being such an amazing mentor through my training, for your support and encouragement. It is now 26 years later but it seems like yesterday. You have always wanted the best for your patients. Enjoy your retirement. Best regards.
Barry Enjoy
Congrats. Well deserved
I have too many kind words to say about Barry so I will just say one. Legend!!!
A true gentleman and great leader. Enjoy your next phase.
Congratulations Barry. Enjoy your retirement and thank you for all you've done!
All the very best for your future endeavours. You deserve it.Amazing career and a very special human.
Thank you Doctor for your many years of serving Queenslanders.
What a remarkable contribution over so many years - lives saved, lives touched, lives improved with your care. Thank you for all that you have done.
Congratulations on your retirement, Barry! It's been both an honour and a pleasure to have cared for your patients over the past many years.
Thank you! ❤️🙏
Congratulations on amazing career and enjoy your retirement to the max!
Congrats Barry, enjoy your retirement. I intend to stop 'cooking the books' and enjoy some retirement myself.
Thank you Barry for your support, guidance and friendship! You will be missed, but I hope you have a fantastic “next chapter”!
Best wishes Dr O’Loughlin!
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