Ideas hub is helping streamline hospital services
An old ward at Gosford Hospital is now home to a new Ideas Hub, a space for health experts and local businesses to tackle healthcare challenges in local hospitals through…
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Hospital staff and patients welcome back volunteers
Central Coast Local Health District (CCLHD) has welcomed volunteers back into Wyong and Gosford Hospitals. Volunteers were given the greenlight to recommence duties following further easing of COVID-19 restrictions across…
68 medical graduates join CCLHD
Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast and Member for Terrigal, Adam Crouch, has welcomed 68 medical graduates to Central Coast Local Health District, part of the 2021 annual intake of…
Free Mental Health Op Shops for unexpected admissions
Delivering dignity, that’s what Central Coast Health’s (CCH) two new Mental Health Op Shops aim to do. These safe spaces have been set up at Wyong and Gosford Hospitals to…
Brandon spearheads art project to brighten the kids’ ward
Year Three Kariong Public School student, Brandon Keele, has brightened the lives of sick children by donating a series of paintings to the Pediatric Ward at Gosford Hospital. The brightly…
Maternity unit at Wyong Hospital remains closed
With the maternity unit at Wyong Hospital to remain closed until at least early next year, Central Coast Labor MPs rallied with members of the NSW Nursing and Midwifery Association…
Elsie’s Retreat expected to be completed by March 2021
Construction of Elsie’s Retreat, the Coast’s first dedicated in-patient palliative care unit, is poised to begin. On December 3, Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch, confirmed that construction…
Huge thanks to medical staff
Forum – I just lost my son Chris to prostate cancer. He was my last child and he joins his late sister, Louise Lee, and his brother, Adrian. May I…
Pay rise was signed, sealed but not delivered
Nurses and midwives were out in force on Wednesday, November 4, protesting the State Government’s latest public sector wage rises as they rallied outside Gosford Hospital. NSW Nurses and Midwives’…
Early signs point to positive impact of PACER program
Early signs are that thenew PACER partnership between police and health services on the Central Coast is already having an impact since it was introduced just over a month ago….
Special delivery from the Children’s Ward
Patient’s at Gosford Hospital’s K8 Ward received a special delivery courtesy of the patients from the Children’s Ward. The hospital’s youngest patients happily donated some of their artworks to spread…
Government returns fire over hospital waiting times
The State Government has hit back at Opposition claims that “savage cuts” to emergency departments have seen patients across the region waiting longer than the rest of NSW when presenting…
New Patient Experience Officers coming to Gosford and Wyong Hospitals
Gosford and Wyong Hospitals will each receive two new Patient Experience Officers to provide help and support to patients arriving at Emergency Departments and COVID-19 Testing Clinics. Parliamentary Secretary for…
First Central Coast COVID-19 death confirmed
[Wednesday April 22, 2020] Following NSW Health’s Daily COVID-19 update this morning, Central Coast Local Health District has confirmed the death of an 80-year-old woman with pre-existing medical conditions who…
Hospitals amend visitor arrangements
Central Coast Health District has made changes to visiting hours at facilities across the Coast to reduce the risk of Coronavirus spreading to patients and staff. The new restrictions come…
68 new intern doctors
More than 60 medical graduates have been added to the staff of Central Coast Local Health District as part of the 2020 annual intake of intern doctors funded by the…
Local Health District hits back at declining service claims
Central Coast Local Health District (CCLHD) has hit back at claims by Member for Wyong and shadow Health Minister, David Harris, that public health services on the Coast are in…
Gosford Hospital’s 4 year $348M transformation is now complete
Gosford Hospital’s four year $348M transformation is now complete, with a new cardiovascular suite, cancer day unit, and Aboriginal Cultural Lounge and courtyard the final additions to the development. Coast…
Inmate dies while attempting to escape
An inmate from Kariong’s Frank Baxter Juvenile Justice Centre has plunged 10 metres to his death whilst attempting to escape the grounds of Gosford Hospital. The 20-year-old man had been…
Gosford Neurosurgeon performs Australia first surgery
Esteemed Gosford Private Hospital Neurosurgeon , Marc Coughlan, has once again led the way for neurosurgery in Australia, introducing minimally invasive endoscopic radio frequency denervation for the treatment of back…