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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). -
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... -
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) -
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... -
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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12/04/2021