The Caboolture Hospital temporary new Fast Track team on opening day.

Caboolture Hospital now has a temporary new Emergency Department Fast Track area.

It includes 12 Fast Track beds, new nurse station, administration office, patient waiting area and accessible toilet.

The space vacated by Fast Track will be used to expand the paediatric emergency department area.

It also provides the opportunity to start a new ‘Care Initiation Area’, which will include a Clinical Initiative Nurse (CIN) and Senior Medical Officer (SMO) for rapid assessment of patients from the waiting room.

These temporary changes will help us to care for the increasing number of patients presenting to the Emergency Department and improve our flow until the new clinical services building opens in mid-2023.

Follow the footprints on the wall in the central corridor, which lead from the pivot nurse to the new Fast Track location.

A very big thank you to our Allied Health colleagues, who were relocated at short notice to the Caboolture Super Clinic on George Street, which created the space needed for this important new patient treatment area.