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Access to specialist outpatient services are critical for the health of the Gold Coast community. The current inefficient and slow bookings and referrals systems at outpatient services has led the...

Why eConsultant?

The Mater Hospital's eConsultant model is an asynchronous GP-to-General Physician communication over secure messaging. eConsultant provides a formalised, efficient and documented method for...

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The gap in health outcomes between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous people is a well-documented priority area for both National and State Governments. Within Queensland...

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Nurse Initiated X-Ray (NIX) aims to streamline patient care in all areas of the Emergency Department (ED), through early initiation of investigations by nursing staff. NIX has been shown to...

prov-ed

PROV-ED aims to disseminate innovation, by sourcing and scaling value-based emergency department (ED) initiatives with demonstrated outcomes. Initiatives are selected for statewide rollout via...

access-qch

The Access Queensland Children's Hospital Program is an evidenced-based and clinically-led program of end-to-end access and flow improvement projects across the QCH. The program is one of many...

identification-of frailty

Frailty screening can help identify older people with multiple interacting medical and social problems which create a vulnerability for poor outcomes. This screening identifies people who will...

frail-older-persons

Across Queensland’s public health system, teams and individuals work every day to get better health outcomes for their older patients. The Frail Older Persons Project has been established to...

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The Pre-filled Saline Syringe (PreSS) initiative involves the introduction of a pre-filled saline syringe specifically designed for flushing vascular access devices.

PreSS was introduced to...

standardised-safe-intubation

The Standardised and Safe Intubation Package (SSIP) provides a standardised, safe approach to patient intubation in Emergency Departments (EDs) that can be replicated in most Queensland Health...

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