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In response to the aging population, the increase in chronic disease, increasing number of individuals retiring from the health sector, future demand for health jobs in the Logan area and local...

To support new mothers requiring specialised perinatal assessment and treatment, the Lavender Mother-Baby Unit was opened at Gold Coast University Hospital in March 2017. This is a statewide...

Queensland Health has launched an initiative where people with obesity and poorly controlled type 2 diabetes who are aged 18-65 and are currently receiving public hospital specialist treatment for...

Currently, referral practices and prioritisation decisions can depend on location, speciality and the clinician/s involved, with variable quality of interface between the local primary and acute...

Establishment of specific strategies for neurology specialist outpatient referrals by using specialist nursing and allied health models of care to manage the neurology SOPD waiting list.

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This model introduces a number of health professionals into the current Developmental and Behavioural Paediatrics Pathway of Care to aid the paediatrician in the diagnosis, and ongoing management...

The project is a 12 month program to implement alternate clinical ophthalmic pathways utilising skills of Optometrist, Nurse Practitioner / Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC) and Orthoptists.

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It is proposed that patients with non-melanoma head and neck cancers, likely to need minor surgery with a low perioperative risk, can have the time spent waiting for surgery and the number of...

Traditional models of care (MOC) use specialist medical practitioners as the key decision makers in all stages of referral, admission, treatment, monitoring and discharge process for this patient...

The Digitally Integrated Stroke Care (DISC) Project will address current barriers to the capture and use of quality data in the Integrated Electronic Medical Record (ieMR), by enhancing the...