Latest news

27 Nov
How to be button battery aware

As Christmas quickly approaches, our final patient safety education session for 2018 focused on efforts to prevent and better identify button battery ingestion and insertion.

22 Nov
Hospital in the Home in the spotlight

Innovations in the delivery of acute care at home will be showcased at the 11th HITH Society Annual Scientific Meeting kicking off in Brisbane today.

19 Nov
QFIRST crowned top innovation by Health Roundtable

The Statewide Anaesthesia and Perioperative Care Clinical Network’s Quality Focused Interventions for the Relief of Symptoms Team (QFIRST) project received this year’s top innovation award at the annual Health Roundtable (HRT) Patient Safety Improvement Group meeting.

11 Oct
Queensland takes honours on the global stage

Several Queensland health services have won awards at the 2018 International Hospital Federation (IHF) Awards, announced by IHF President Dr Francisco Balestrin (Brazil) in Brisbane yesterday.

04 Oct
Lead Australian midwifery researcher recognised

Queensland's Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer has extended her congratulations to Gold Coast Professor Jennifer Fenwick, announced as the lead researcher in Australia in the areas of pregnancy and birth.

25 Sep
Farewell Julie!

The Clinical Excellence Division would like to wish Julie Hulcombe well as she departs the role of Chief Allied Health Officer today.