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7 August 2026
Tackling men’s health head on
Staying on top of one’s health can be tough, with many men opting to delay or avoid important conversations about their health until it comes to the crunch.
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Meningococcal Alert for Brisbane
Metro North Public Health Unit confirmed a case of invasive meningococcal disease at St John’s College, UQ, on Saturday 1 August 2026.
30 July 2026
Honouring five decades of dedicated service at RBWH
RBWH reached the end of an era with the retirement of Dr Barry O’Loughlin after a 50-year association with the hospital.
News , Metro North , RBWH
28 July 2026
World-first research offers hope for earlier occupational lung disease diagnosis
World-first research underway at The Prince Charles Hospital (TPCH) could change the way occupational lung diseases, including silicosis, are detected and understood.
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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.
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.
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Phone: (07) 3285 0000
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With around 15,000 Australian’s diagnosed and 9,000 lives lost each year, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in Australia. 🫁
Thanks to funding from the Australia Cancer Research Foundation and the University of Queensland, the Lung Cancer Screening Centre of Excellence (LUSCE, pronounced Lucy!) will service rural and remote communities, providing early detection to save lives.
To access this service, you can join the Australian Lung Screen Trial via the link below and be in the know when LUSCE is coming to town near you. 💜🚑
metronorth.health.qld.gov.au/TPCH/australianlungscreentrial
What an amazing achievement to have to get this almost on the road! Great work team 🎉👏
Absolutely wonderful to see ♥️
Won’t go past proceed.
Excellent work team!
Queensland mum and Townsville nurse Melainie knew something wasn't quite right with her health, but it was only when she fell pregnant with her first child that she learned she had a rare lung disease.
Melainie is currently being cared for by the TPCH Transplant team as she waits for a lung transplant whilst also balancing raising her eight-month-old baby, Fletcher.
"Last year, I started struggling to breathe and after invasive investigations was diagnosed with pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis, a very rare and progressive type of interstitial lung disease," she said.
"If that wasn’t enough of a shock, two days after receiving my diagnosis we found out I was eight weeks pregnant!
"Unfortunately, my lung function has continued to deteriorate, and I'm currently being worked up for a double lung transplant. As you can imagine, it’s a very surreal feeling when I have professionally cared for those in the Intensive Care Unit as they donated their organs."
While Melainie hasn't been listed for a lung transplant yet, she knows it’s just around the corner and understands the importance of raising awareness around registering and talking to your loved ones about organ and tissue donation.
It only takes one minute to register as an organ and tissue donor at donatelife.gov.au or through Medicare. Be the reason that someone like Melainie can get a second chance at life. 🩷
You’re in great hands Melainie, my late father had a double lung transplant under the TPCH team when I was just 6 years old. The life saving transplant gave him an extra 17 years of life to watch me grow into an adult with my own children.
Best Wishes big time ❤️
Prayer coming up for a complete healing over your lungs condition Nurse.🙏
Praying for you Melanie
Thinking and praying for you Melanie 🙏🏻 keep strong in the Lord. He will never leave you nor forsake you.
Melainie you are an AMAZING nurse and it was always a delight working with you at TUH. We are sending you many wishes for a smooth journey and hope you are so well supported at TPCH. Just shout if we can help you with anything while you are in Brisbane!
Keep going
Omg so hard with a baby 🙁 I am a complex heart patient of PCH just had an amazing team looking after me last week. Hope you get through this soon 🌻
Best wishes Melainie and family.
All the best Melanie, 🙏🙏🙏
Good luck! It’s important to talk to your family about being an organ donor as well, it’s such an amazing gift.
I hope everything goes well Melanie, sending lots of love, courage and prayers, from a fellow nurse and mum🩵
You are in good hands @ TPCH
Thinking of you and will have you in my prayers! 🩷💜🙏🏻🙏🏻🫂🫂
Wishing you well Melanie in your journey as a transplant recipient 🙏🙏🙏
Wishing you all the best for your journey ahead ❤️ And congratulations on your beautiful family
Good luck with everything.
You are amazing Melainie. Thinking of you and wishing you all the best for your transplant. To go through all of this whilst raising a little baby, is phenomenal strength.
You're doing amazing Melanie! 🙌 Stay strong, you've got this! 💪 Little Fletcher is one lucky baby to have a mom like you ❤
All the best. From personal experience the doctors at this hospital are some of the best in the country. You are in good hands.
Such a strong beautiful lady and mumma!! You got this Melainie. Thinking of you and your beautiful family ❤️
Good luck Melanie your in the best possible place on the planet for treatment. The PCH is the best they do marvellous life saving surgery.
Best of luck Melanie 🙏🤛🏻🫁❤️❤️❤️
You will be under the BEST care there. Stay strong, Melanie.
Sorry. Hope you'll be fine. Lung 🫁 transplant is rare procedure and not common. Prognosis is not good enough. I just wish you could just live with it until you take your last breathe. Its better to say a last word to your loved ones than dying on the operating table. Try medications 💊 that will help
'Behind every compassionate and competent nurse is someone who believed in them' - and these are the words that Clinical Nurse Clinical Facilitator (CNCF) Rachel lives by! 👩⚕️🫶
As a CNCF within TPCH cardiology since 2016, Rachel says that she is still grateful every day for the opportunity to do what she loves.
"I have been nursing for almost 30 years, and have experience in Emergency, ICU, surgical; all of this experience and knowledge shapes how I teach people. However, this role is more than education, it's about inspiring, mentoring and supporting nurses to become the best they can be," Rachel said.
"That might mean guiding a new graduate through their first year, helping staff build their confidence in clinical practice or encouraging someone to step into a leadership role.
"I have met so many new grads that are now Nurse Unit Managers, Clinical Nurses and Nurse Practitioners and that is so rewarding to see knowing I was able to play a small part in shaping them."
If you are passionate about leading through education and making a positive impact on staff and patient care, then click the link below and apply for the new Clinical Nurse Clinical Facilitator role at TPCH! 🌟 #WorkforusWednesday
apply-springboard.health.qld.gov.au/jobs/QLD-PCH688097
Well done Rachel. TPCH and 1B are so lucky to have you as a CNCF. We are so blessed to have you, you are an inspiration! ❤️🌸
The best CNCF. Rach, you are an amazing nurse and teacher. Miss you 💕
❤️ that’s my beautiful friend who is so skilled. love you so much ❤️ and miss working with you. 💋
Yay Rachel!!! ❤️❤️
Stand proud 👏 Rachel.👍
Congratulations ❤️ 🎊
A wonderful reminder of the lasting impact that mentorship and clinical leadership have on the nursing profession. Thank you, Rachel, for inspiring and supporting the next generation of nurses while helping strengthen patient care. 👏💙
Such an advocate too🫶🏼
beautiful
Congratulations 🥳
👌❤️🥰
Beautiful Rachel 😊
Well done,Rach,of course you are the best and full of knowledge...proud of you .
We are very lucky to have you Rachel! Thank you for all your support, guidance and sharing your knowledge to make us all better in practice every day ❤️
An exceptional educator and an even more wonderful human being you are Rach😍 It’s been a privilege to learn and work with your guidance. Wishing you all the best for a long, successful, and shining career ahead 🎉👏
An absolute star and the definition of dedicated! So very blessed to have you as a colleague 💜
Rachel it’s always so great to see you on the ward. 1B are so lucky to have you 💕
Blessed with the best!! Love working with you 💕!
An incredible CNCF and beautiful person. TPCH are lucky to have such an amazing Nurse leading the way!
Congratulations! 🎊🎉
Amazing job Rach!
Congratulations Rachel❤️Best of Best
Congrats❤️❤️❤️❤️
Ninang! ❤️
Incredibly blessed to have you as our CNCF💖 Thank you for all the guidance and support you have given me x
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Masks are an important defence against respiratory illness and protection from dust and other airborne hazards.
/ MetroNorthHHS
With around 15,000 Australian’s diagnosed and 9,000 lives lost each year, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in Australia. 🫁
Thanks to funding from the Australia Cancer Research Foundation and the University of Queensland, the Lung Cancer Screening Centre of Excellence (LUSCE, pronounced Lucy!) will service rural and remote communities, providing early detection to save lives.
To access this service, you can join the Australian Lung Screen Trial via the link below and be in the know when LUSCE is coming to town near you. 💜🚑
metronorth.health.qld.gov.au/TPCH/australianlungscreentrial
What an amazing achievement to have to get this almost on the road! Great work team 🎉👏
Absolutely wonderful to see ♥️
Won’t go past proceed.
Excellent work team!
Queensland mum and Townsville nurse Melainie knew something wasn't quite right with her health, but it was only when she fell pregnant with her first child that she learned she had a rare lung disease.
Melainie is currently being cared for by the TPCH Transplant team as she waits for a lung transplant whilst also balancing raising her eight-month-old baby, Fletcher.
"Last year, I started struggling to breathe and after invasive investigations was diagnosed with pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis, a very rare and progressive type of interstitial lung disease," she said.
"If that wasn’t enough of a shock, two days after receiving my diagnosis we found out I was eight weeks pregnant!
"Unfortunately, my lung function has continued to deteriorate, and I'm currently being worked up for a double lung transplant. As you can imagine, it’s a very surreal feeling when I have professionally cared for those in the Intensive Care Unit as they donated their organs."
While Melainie hasn't been listed for a lung transplant yet, she knows it’s just around the corner and understands the importance of raising awareness around registering and talking to your loved ones about organ and tissue donation.
It only takes one minute to register as an organ and tissue donor at donatelife.gov.au or through Medicare. Be the reason that someone like Melainie can get a second chance at life. 🩷
You’re in great hands Melainie, my late father had a double lung transplant under the TPCH team when I was just 6 years old. The life saving transplant gave him an extra 17 years of life to watch me grow into an adult with my own children.
Best Wishes big time ❤️
Prayer coming up for a complete healing over your lungs condition Nurse.🙏
Praying for you Melanie
Thinking and praying for you Melanie 🙏🏻 keep strong in the Lord. He will never leave you nor forsake you.
Melainie you are an AMAZING nurse and it was always a delight working with you at TUH. We are sending you many wishes for a smooth journey and hope you are so well supported at TPCH. Just shout if we can help you with anything while you are in Brisbane!
Keep going
Omg so hard with a baby 🙁 I am a complex heart patient of PCH just had an amazing team looking after me last week. Hope you get through this soon 🌻
Best wishes Melainie and family.
All the best Melanie, 🙏🙏🙏
Good luck! It’s important to talk to your family about being an organ donor as well, it’s such an amazing gift.
I hope everything goes well Melanie, sending lots of love, courage and prayers, from a fellow nurse and mum🩵
You are in good hands @ TPCH
Thinking of you and will have you in my prayers! 🩷💜🙏🏻🙏🏻🫂🫂
Wishing you well Melanie in your journey as a transplant recipient 🙏🙏🙏
Wishing you all the best for your journey ahead ❤️ And congratulations on your beautiful family
Good luck with everything.
You are amazing Melainie. Thinking of you and wishing you all the best for your transplant. To go through all of this whilst raising a little baby, is phenomenal strength.
You're doing amazing Melanie! 🙌 Stay strong, you've got this! 💪 Little Fletcher is one lucky baby to have a mom like you ❤
All the best. From personal experience the doctors at this hospital are some of the best in the country. You are in good hands.
Such a strong beautiful lady and mumma!! You got this Melainie. Thinking of you and your beautiful family ❤️
Good luck Melanie your in the best possible place on the planet for treatment. The PCH is the best they do marvellous life saving surgery.
Best of luck Melanie 🙏🤛🏻🫁❤️❤️❤️
You will be under the BEST care there. Stay strong, Melanie.
Sorry. Hope you'll be fine. Lung 🫁 transplant is rare procedure and not common. Prognosis is not good enough. I just wish you could just live with it until you take your last breathe. Its better to say a last word to your loved ones than dying on the operating table. Try medications 💊 that will help
'Behind every compassionate and competent nurse is someone who believed in them' - and these are the words that Clinical Nurse Clinical Facilitator (CNCF) Rachel lives by! 👩⚕️🫶
As a CNCF within TPCH cardiology since 2016, Rachel says that she is still grateful every day for the opportunity to do what she loves.
"I have been nursing for almost 30 years, and have experience in Emergency, ICU, surgical; all of this experience and knowledge shapes how I teach people. However, this role is more than education, it's about inspiring, mentoring and supporting nurses to become the best they can be," Rachel said.
"That might mean guiding a new graduate through their first year, helping staff build their confidence in clinical practice or encouraging someone to step into a leadership role.
"I have met so many new grads that are now Nurse Unit Managers, Clinical Nurses and Nurse Practitioners and that is so rewarding to see knowing I was able to play a small part in shaping them."
If you are passionate about leading through education and making a positive impact on staff and patient care, then click the link below and apply for the new Clinical Nurse Clinical Facilitator role at TPCH! 🌟 #WorkforusWednesday
apply-springboard.health.qld.gov.au/jobs/QLD-PCH688097
Well done Rachel. TPCH and 1B are so lucky to have you as a CNCF. We are so blessed to have you, you are an inspiration! ❤️🌸
The best CNCF. Rach, you are an amazing nurse and teacher. Miss you 💕
❤️ that’s my beautiful friend who is so skilled. love you so much ❤️ and miss working with you. 💋
Yay Rachel!!! ❤️❤️
Stand proud 👏 Rachel.👍
Congratulations ❤️ 🎊
A wonderful reminder of the lasting impact that mentorship and clinical leadership have on the nursing profession. Thank you, Rachel, for inspiring and supporting the next generation of nurses while helping strengthen patient care. 👏💙
Such an advocate too🫶🏼
beautiful
Congratulations 🥳
👌❤️🥰
Beautiful Rachel 😊
Well done,Rach,of course you are the best and full of knowledge...proud of you .
We are very lucky to have you Rachel! Thank you for all your support, guidance and sharing your knowledge to make us all better in practice every day ❤️
An exceptional educator and an even more wonderful human being you are Rach😍 It’s been a privilege to learn and work with your guidance. Wishing you all the best for a long, successful, and shining career ahead 🎉👏
An absolute star and the definition of dedicated! So very blessed to have you as a colleague 💜
Rachel it’s always so great to see you on the ward. 1B are so lucky to have you 💕
Blessed with the best!! Love working with you 💕!
An incredible CNCF and beautiful person. TPCH are lucky to have such an amazing Nurse leading the way!
Congratulations! 🎊🎉
Amazing job Rach!
Congratulations Rachel❤️Best of Best
Congrats❤️❤️❤️❤️
Ninang! ❤️
Incredibly blessed to have you as our CNCF💖 Thank you for all the guidance and support you have given me x
Masks are an important defence against respiratory illness and protection from dust and other airborne hazards.Latest news
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/ MetroNorthHHS
With around 15,000 Australian’s diagnosed and 9,000 lives lost each year, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in Australia. 🫁
Thanks to funding from the Australia Cancer Research Foundation and the University of Queensland, the Lung Cancer Screening Centre of Excellence (LUSCE, pronounced Lucy!) will service rural and remote communities, providing early detection to save lives.
To access this service, you can join the Australian Lung Screen Trial via the link below and be in the know when LUSCE is coming to town near you. 💜🚑
metronorth.health.qld.gov.au/TPCH/australianlungscreentrial
What an amazing achievement to have to get this almost on the road! Great work team 🎉👏
Absolutely wonderful to see ♥️
Won’t go past proceed.
Excellent work team!
Queensland mum and Townsville nurse Melainie knew something wasn't quite right with her health, but it was only when she fell pregnant with her first child that she learned she had a rare lung disease.
Melainie is currently being cared for by the TPCH Transplant team as she waits for a lung transplant whilst also balancing raising her eight-month-old baby, Fletcher.
"Last year, I started struggling to breathe and after invasive investigations was diagnosed with pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis, a very rare and progressive type of interstitial lung disease," she said.
"If that wasn’t enough of a shock, two days after receiving my diagnosis we found out I was eight weeks pregnant!
"Unfortunately, my lung function has continued to deteriorate, and I'm currently being worked up for a double lung transplant. As you can imagine, it’s a very surreal feeling when I have professionally cared for those in the Intensive Care Unit as they donated their organs."
While Melainie hasn't been listed for a lung transplant yet, she knows it’s just around the corner and understands the importance of raising awareness around registering and talking to your loved ones about organ and tissue donation.
It only takes one minute to register as an organ and tissue donor at donatelife.gov.au or through Medicare. Be the reason that someone like Melainie can get a second chance at life. 🩷
You’re in great hands Melainie, my late father had a double lung transplant under the TPCH team when I was just 6 years old. The life saving transplant gave him an extra 17 years of life to watch me grow into an adult with my own children.
Best Wishes big time ❤️
Prayer coming up for a complete healing over your lungs condition Nurse.🙏
Praying for you Melanie
Thinking and praying for you Melanie 🙏🏻 keep strong in the Lord. He will never leave you nor forsake you.
Melainie you are an AMAZING nurse and it was always a delight working with you at TUH. We are sending you many wishes for a smooth journey and hope you are so well supported at TPCH. Just shout if we can help you with anything while you are in Brisbane!
Keep going
Omg so hard with a baby 🙁 I am a complex heart patient of PCH just had an amazing team looking after me last week. Hope you get through this soon 🌻
Best wishes Melainie and family.
All the best Melanie, 🙏🙏🙏
Good luck! It’s important to talk to your family about being an organ donor as well, it’s such an amazing gift.
I hope everything goes well Melanie, sending lots of love, courage and prayers, from a fellow nurse and mum🩵
You are in good hands @ TPCH
Thinking of you and will have you in my prayers! 🩷💜🙏🏻🙏🏻🫂🫂
Wishing you well Melanie in your journey as a transplant recipient 🙏🙏🙏
Wishing you all the best for your journey ahead ❤️ And congratulations on your beautiful family
Good luck with everything.
You are amazing Melainie. Thinking of you and wishing you all the best for your transplant. To go through all of this whilst raising a little baby, is phenomenal strength.
You're doing amazing Melanie! 🙌 Stay strong, you've got this! 💪 Little Fletcher is one lucky baby to have a mom like you ❤
All the best. From personal experience the doctors at this hospital are some of the best in the country. You are in good hands.
Such a strong beautiful lady and mumma!! You got this Melainie. Thinking of you and your beautiful family ❤️
Good luck Melanie your in the best possible place on the planet for treatment. The PCH is the best they do marvellous life saving surgery.
Best of luck Melanie 🙏🤛🏻🫁❤️❤️❤️
You will be under the BEST care there. Stay strong, Melanie.
Sorry. Hope you'll be fine. Lung 🫁 transplant is rare procedure and not common. Prognosis is not good enough. I just wish you could just live with it until you take your last breathe. Its better to say a last word to your loved ones than dying on the operating table. Try medications 💊 that will help
'Behind every compassionate and competent nurse is someone who believed in them' - and these are the words that Clinical Nurse Clinical Facilitator (CNCF) Rachel lives by! 👩⚕️🫶
As a CNCF within TPCH cardiology since 2016, Rachel says that she is still grateful every day for the opportunity to do what she loves.
"I have been nursing for almost 30 years, and have experience in Emergency, ICU, surgical; all of this experience and knowledge shapes how I teach people. However, this role is more than education, it's about inspiring, mentoring and supporting nurses to become the best they can be," Rachel said.
"That might mean guiding a new graduate through their first year, helping staff build their confidence in clinical practice or encouraging someone to step into a leadership role.
"I have met so many new grads that are now Nurse Unit Managers, Clinical Nurses and Nurse Practitioners and that is so rewarding to see knowing I was able to play a small part in shaping them."
If you are passionate about leading through education and making a positive impact on staff and patient care, then click the link below and apply for the new Clinical Nurse Clinical Facilitator role at TPCH! 🌟 #WorkforusWednesday
apply-springboard.health.qld.gov.au/jobs/QLD-PCH688097
Well done Rachel. TPCH and 1B are so lucky to have you as a CNCF. We are so blessed to have you, you are an inspiration! ❤️🌸
The best CNCF. Rach, you are an amazing nurse and teacher. Miss you 💕
❤️ that’s my beautiful friend who is so skilled. love you so much ❤️ and miss working with you. 💋
Yay Rachel!!! ❤️❤️
Stand proud 👏 Rachel.👍
Congratulations ❤️ 🎊
A wonderful reminder of the lasting impact that mentorship and clinical leadership have on the nursing profession. Thank you, Rachel, for inspiring and supporting the next generation of nurses while helping strengthen patient care. 👏💙
Such an advocate too🫶🏼
beautiful
Congratulations 🥳
👌❤️🥰
Beautiful Rachel 😊
Well done,Rach,of course you are the best and full of knowledge...proud of you .
We are very lucky to have you Rachel! Thank you for all your support, guidance and sharing your knowledge to make us all better in practice every day ❤️
An exceptional educator and an even more wonderful human being you are Rach😍 It’s been a privilege to learn and work with your guidance. Wishing you all the best for a long, successful, and shining career ahead 🎉👏
An absolute star and the definition of dedicated! So very blessed to have you as a colleague 💜
Rachel it’s always so great to see you on the ward. 1B are so lucky to have you 💕
Blessed with the best!! Love working with you 💕!
An incredible CNCF and beautiful person. TPCH are lucky to have such an amazing Nurse leading the way!
Congratulations! 🎊🎉
Amazing job Rach!
Congratulations Rachel❤️Best of Best
Congrats❤️❤️❤️❤️
Ninang! ❤️
Incredibly blessed to have you as our CNCF💖 Thank you for all the guidance and support you have given me x
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