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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...
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    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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  • An artist's impression of one of the new retail spaces accessible from E Street (showing the former Charlies Garden Cafe)
    Refurbishment works at SCGH - Balbuk Bidi Watling Walk and retail precinct renewal project 08 July 2021 Balbuk Bidi Watling Walk and retail precinct renewal project Watling Walk and the E Block retail precinct are both having a facelift! Work on renewing Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital’s main north-south corridor and re-activating the retail precinct begins on 2 August 2021. In line with our commitment to creating a culturally secure environment at our sites, Watling Walk will be renamed and will now be known as Balbuk Bidi Watling Walk. My sincere thanks to the SCGOPHCG Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing Committee for your work on the dual-naming project which will see some key areas at SCGH, including Balbuk Bidi Watling Walk renamed. Signage reflecting the name changes will be updated in due course. Balbuk Bidi is named in recognition of Fanny Balbuk Yooreel, who was a prominent Noongar Whadjuk woman, known for her unwavering commitment to maintaining her land rights. Balbuk would walk...
  • The Asbestos Review Program (ARP) team based at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital's Respiratory Department.
    WA’s unique Asbestos Review Program celebrates its 5000th participant 02 July 2021 Thirty years ago, in response to increasing concern over the health of thousands of WA workers and families after exposure to asbestos dust, a world-unique program was established in WA. Last year, the Asbestos Review Program celebrated its 30th anniversary;this year, it celebrates its5000th participant. The Asbestos Review Program (ARP) looks after people who have worked with or been exposed to asbestos, seeing nearly 2000 people per year and is based in the Respiratory Department at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. During this time the ARP has performed more than 29,000 chest x-rays, 11,500 CT scans, 45,000 blood tests and 49,000 lung function tests. Prof Fraser Brims, Head of the Respiratory Department and Director of the ARP, said the ARP has pioneered modern technology in recent years with ultra-low dose CT scans to detect lung cancer at an early stage, when it can be successfully tr...
  • Emeritus Clinical Professor Martin Phillips, and Professor Gary Lee.
    Charlies Respiratory team recognised with rare double honour at national meeting 16 June 2021 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital's Respiratory Department achieved a rare double recognition of excellence at the recent annual Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ) meeting. Professor Gary Lee was awarded the TSANZ Research Medal for sustained outstanding contribution to respiratory medicine and science. Gary’s research is internationally recognised and has contributed significantly to scientific and clinical advances in pleural medicine across the world. Emeritus Clinical Professor Martin Phillips was awarded the TSANZ 50th Anniversary Medal for outstanding contribution and sustained excellence in respiratory education and training in Australia and New Zealand. Martin has an international reputation in interventional bronchoscopy and further contributed to establishing the Lung Foundation Australia more than 30 years ago. Gary and Martin join an esteemed list of pre...
  • ICU artwork
    Art inspired by hope 14 June 2021 The talented Charlies staff from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and General High Dependency Unit (GHDU) have created a beautiful artwork that takes pride of place in the entrance of the ICU. In May 2020 when COVID-19 was globally taking hold, Jing (Cherry) Ning, Research Nurse ICU & GHDU and Aisling McDonald, RN ICU developed a wellness initiative to engage staff and create a work of art inspired by hope. “We thought the idea of joining puzzle pieces together to form a lovely picture symbolised each of us as individuals of both ICU and GHDU, working together as a wonderful team. Individual strength and team spirit were much needed during that time and were indeed what got us through,” said Cherry. “We needed a theme, a shared vision, and we thought of 'hope'! We thought no matter what challenges we were facing - we needed to have hope. We wanted people to portray the...
  • Kaitlyn Holyman, IF Program; Mandy McKnight, Area Executive Director, Nursing Services and Naomi Parkins, Nurse Manager, Patient Flow Unit
    Shiftmatch Cohort Model - Congrats Naomi Parkins! 11 June 2021 Congratulations to Naomi Parkins, SCGOPHCG Nurse Manager, Patient Flow Unit, for presenting her Innovative Future project at the 10th International Congress on Innovations in Nursing (external site) in May 2021. Naomi, along with Michael Stuart and Keren Smith applied to the Innovative Future (IF) program in round one, to address the problems they were experiencing with managing casual staff shifts. The booking system at the time was administrative intensive, had a high risk of error, and was fraught with inconsistencies across different areas. To improve the process, a system needed to be implemented that was transparent, dynamic, efficient, user friendly, consistent, and allowed ease of communication. Enter Shiftmatch Cohort Model Shiftmatch is a web-based rostering system that automatically matches suitably qualified staff to roster shortages, and communicates the shortage to them via...
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