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  • Pilot program trialling two new innovative pharmacy positions
    Reaping the benefits of the Innovative Future (IF) Program 14 September 2023 A six-month pilot program trialling two new innovative pharmacy positions funded by the NMHS Innovative Future Program is set to be extended into 2024. As part of the Innovative Future (IF) Program, Chief Executive's Challenge, the pilot program objective is to demonstrate a decrease in the burden of non-clinical tasks for nursing and medical staff at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (SCGH) which will now be incorporated into the 7 Day Hospital initiative. SCGH Deputy Chief Pharmacist Daniel Makarounas said the project was about allowing more time for nursing and medical staff to provide direct patient care. "It was a really great joint project between Pharmacy, the IF Program team, the Emergency Department, Ward C16 and the Medical Assessment Unit," he said. "We wanted to see what kind of impact these roles would have on patient care and the feedback has been extremely positive." The progr...
  • Smart Locker service at SCGH
    Innovative Smart Locker service at SCGH unlocks better patient outcomes 07 September 2023 Patient feedback on the innovative Smart Locker system introduced last year at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (SCGH) Outpatient Pharmacy (OPP) has highlighted the success of the program. The lockers allow patients to pick up their medications from the secure locations on ground floor in A block at times outside of the pharmacy's opening hours. A simple and efficient process, these lockers have ...
  • WA Nursing and Midwifery Excellence Award state finalists
    Congratulations to our WA Nursing and Midwifery Excellence Award state finalists 28 July 2023 It is with great pleasure that we congratulate the North Metropolitan Health Service finalists in the 2023 WA Nursing and Midwifery Excellence Awards (WANMEA): Excellence in Person Centred Care – Team Award Women’s Newborns Health Service Diabetes Team, King Edward Memorial Hospital Excellence in Midwifery Sue-Anne Hawkins – King Edward Memorial Hospital Excellence in Education Jodie Atkinson – Ki...
  • Eithne Molloy, Hon Amber-Jade Sanderson, Dr Jodi Graham and Dr Shirley Bowen
    New pain management clinic at OPH 26 July 2023 The Hon Amber-Jade Sanderson, Minister for Health; Mental Health, officially opened the Pain Management Clinic at Osborne Park Hospital on Tuesday 25 July. The clinic follows a multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of persistent or chronic pain, comprising inpatient and outpatient services across medical, nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, clinical psychology, psychiatry and addic...
  • WA-Health-Excellence-Awards-intranet-banner
    Health Heroes - WA Excellence Awards 11 July 2023 Has a health professional had a significant impact on your patient experience? Now is your chance to nominate them for 7New Health Heroes Award (external site) in the annual WA Health Excellence Awards. The Department of Health and 7News have launched a people's choice award at the annual WA Health Excellence Awards. Known as the 7News Health Heroes Award, members of the public can nominate a fron...

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  • Behind the scenes on the COVID ward
    Behind the scenes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital's specialised COVID ward 03 March 2022 If you haven't yet seen the great Channel 9 Perth story on Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital's Emergency Department (ED) and Covid Ward (G71), take a look at the below clip. Journalist Natalia Cooper was shown around ED and G71 after first doing a FIT test with her cameraman, getting a real feel not just for the preparedness of SCGH, but for how staff feel kitted up in PPE all day, every day! Professor Fraser Brims, Professor Respiratory Medicine, and Dr Lindsay Showers, Consultant ED, explained various processes and cutting edge equipment to Natalia, while ED Clinical Nurse Specialist Meggs Griffin coordinated the hands-on expertise of our nurse cast! We are proud of our staff and happy for a positive story to be out there. See the full news story (external site).
  • Podiatry Team
    SCGH High Risk Foot Service (HRFS) achieves accreditation as a Centre of Excellence 26 February 2022 The SCGH High Risk Foot Service (HRFS) is a multidisciplinary service which meets the needs of patients with complex diabetes related foot complications. It brings together the specialties of Vascular, Infectious Diseases, Endocrinology, Podiatry and Nursing (including Silver Chain Liaison Nurse) and provides care to patients with limb threatening diabetic foot ulcers and infections, and other complex foot disorders such as Charcot neuroarthropathy. Established in May 2019, the service offers an outpatient multidisciplinary clinic (the MDFU) located in the SCGH Podiatry department, and an inpatient diabetic foot unit (SCGH), and has links to the amputee rehabilitation service (OPH) and Hospital in the Home (Homelink) Service which provides care to patients in their own homes. After three years of operation, the SCGH High Risk Foot Service now helps around 60 outpatients each month and pe...
  • Purple CAT bus
    Introduction of Purple CAT 24 February 2022 There’s a new CAT bus running between Elizabeth Quay Bus Station and UWA South, via QEII. The purple CAT bus starts this Sunday, 27 February. This new service will be invaluable for patients, visitors and staff with stops along Monash Avenue and Hampden Road. Visit the TransPerth website (external site) for more details about the service. Download the new CAT timetable (PDF)
  • Cesarita Marzo
    Farewell and thanks for Cesarita Marzo 16 February 2022 The final days of a dedicated career will be celebrated on 23 February for Cesarita ‘Ces’ Marzo, the Head of Department, Nutrition and Dietetics at SCGOPHCG. After some 18 years at the helm of the department and more than 45 years in the profession, Ces is hanging up her uniform for the last time but not before her colleagues acknowledge her incredible contribution. Prior to joining SCGH in October 2003, Ces established dietetic services at the Mount Hospital and Joondalup Health Service as well as earlier in Queensland. She was a Director for the Dietitian Association of Australia and provided leadership and advocacy for the specified callings work value case for dietetic industry. In her role here at SCGH, Ces demonstrated leadership across several platforms, all for the common good of the department, for dietetics and for the hospital. Ces advocated for and established the...
  • Surgery
    Elective surgery bookings to continue for another two weeks 15 February 2022 WA public hospitals will continue to book multi-day non-urgent Category 2 and Category 3 elective surgeries for an additional two weeks The two-month scale down on elective surgeries is now planned to start from March 14 at WA public hospitals and March 21 for private hospitals. No change to Category 1 bookings Agile and planned approach to managing elective surgery and capacity at WA hospitals Western Australian public hospitals will continue to book multi-day non-urgent Category 2 and Category 3 elective surgeries for another two weeks as Omicron COVID-19 cases remain steady. Currently there are no COVID-19 cases in WA hospitals. As previously outlined, the surgery schedule would be reviewed ahead of the commencement of the temporary pause to some surgeries, based on Omicron COVID-19 case numbers and advice from the Chief Health Officer. The temporary scale dow...
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