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Metro North Health is helping students to take their first steps toward a career in Nuclear Medicine without them needing to move interstate.

Following four years as Chair of Redcliffe Hospital's clinical council, Dr Alan Yan takes the lead for Metro North.

When social worker Liam Kelly isn't helping staff and patient engagement with the NDIS at STARS, he is part of Brisbane's live music scene as guitarist in metalcore band Citadel.

STARS’ patient Murray was recently recognised for his service during Cyclone Tracy, as part of the 50-year anniversary commemorations of the disaster in Darwin.

If you’ve visited STARS recently you may have noticed a beautiful new piece of artwork, 'Olden Times' by artist Rene Kulitja, hanging in the entrance to level 3.

Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital staff bunkered down at the hospital to ensure safe patient care continued throughout ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred

Rosey Holliday, a valued consumer representative on the Metro North Health Disability Services Action Plan Implementation Advisory Group shares her experience with hidden disabilities like neurodiversity.

Cath Saddler and Adam Turbutt, both Nurse Educators at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, have founded a Nursing and Midwifery Neurodiversity Working Group.

Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV) is a flavivirus related to dengue, carried by some types of mosquitoes.

South East Queensland is currently experiencing heatwave conditions.  

The work was presented at the Australia and New Zealand Trauma Society Trauma Conference 2024.

Since its launch in February 2024, the Hub has achieved significant outcomes, including over 500 occasions of service.

Phoenix SOAR is a program of the US Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors, offering one-to-one peer support to burn survivors and their family/carers.

The Redcliffe Hospital Post-ICU follow-up clinic is pioneering care of this type in Australia to help manage cases of Post Intensive Care Syndrome in patients.

Redcliffe Hospital recently held its annual Christmas lunch to thank its army of volunteers for another year of outstanding service.

A new artwork is on display at RBWH, made of almost 10,000 pieces of plastic waste from operating theatres.

Dance Rehab, an innovative therapeutic dance program for patients undergoing rehabilitation at STARS, took on a Christmas theme for the last session of 2024.

Metro North patients will benefit from a 12-month trial of a new referral process which will increase the number of people eligible for cataract surgery at STARS.

After almost 34 years with Queensland Health, 18 of those with the Rehabilitation Engineering Centre, one of workshop’s ‘elves’, Alan Bateman is retiring.

Baby Arthur, born at just over 28 weeks, has been able to go home with the help of the RBWH NeoHOME program.

Expectant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women accessing Redcliffe Hospital will soon have the choice of a continuity of care model across the antenatal, birthing, and postnatal period.

A clear ability to identify solutions is helping Clinical Nurse Consultant Debbie Jones streamline services for Norfolk Island residents.

Staff at Redcliffe Hospital marked World Allied Health Professions Day with an awards ceremony.