Praise comes for Gosford Hospital staff under stress
Especially since the advent of COVID-19, our hospitals have been put under a lot of stress. The people who make our hospitals work deserve to be held in high esteem…
Health
Move against cancer step challenge on again
Dr Ash Bowden, also known to the community as Doctor Do More, is on a mission to get people exercising and moving more to improve their health and happiness through…
Coast patients and aged care residents to benefit from $1.6m funding
More than 300 general practices, allied health practices and residential aged care facilities across the Hunter, New England and Central Coast regions will benefit from $1.6 million in digital health…
More GPs announced for the Central Coast
Amid the critical shortage of GPs across the Central Coast, an announcement from the Albanese Government has flagged the change to Distribution Priority Area (DPA) classifications meaning local practices can…
Major award for HoTS program
Coast and Country Primary Care (CCPC) has taken out the Innovation category at the HNECC (Hunter New England Central Coast) Primary Health Network’s (PHN) second annual Primary Care Quality and…
Go4Fun promotes healthy active children
Registrations are now open for the Go4Fun face-to-face program to encourage healthy active youngsters which will return in Term 3 of school, starting on July 18. The program will be…
Milestones for Gosford Private Hospital
It’s been a big month for Gosford Private Hospital, with the commissioning of a 12th operating theatre and the completion of the 100th procedure using the da Vinci Xi surgical…
Why are we closing hospitals?
In response to “NSW Health workers at breaking point?” (PP054): on the Northern Beaches there were two level 3 community-based public hospitals. They were both consequently run into the ground…
Advocate says Veterans’ report ‘not worth the paper it is written on’
A federal report into the Department of Veterans’ Affairs’ (DVA) communication with veterans when making claims for compensation has been labelled as obsolete by local veteran representatives. On January 20,…
Aged care provider says Nurse Practitioners are the future
Nurse practitioners are needed to help stem the “aged care GP crisis” on the Peninsula according to local aged care provider Peninsula Villages. Peninsula Villages is one of only a…
What to do if you catch COVID
The spread of the Omicron variant has resulted thousands of COVID-19 cases officially recorded across the Central Coast since the start of January. The number is likely to be much…
New Year’s resolutions research reveals a healthy desire for change
Research released by HCF Australia this week reveals Australian’s top New Year’s Resolutions for 2022 will be a vow to be more healthy over any other goal this January. A survey…
Starting over in Spring: cleansing from a Naturopath’s perspective
This is the fifth part of our post-lockdown wholistic health reset. We’re focusing on simple mindset and lifestyle shifts that have the power to create significant results. This week we’re…
Starting over in Spring: lifestyle ‘big rocks’
This is the fourth part of our post-lockdown wholistic health reset. We’re focusing on simple mindset and lifestyle shifts that have the power to create significant results. Recently we introduced…
Future Sooner fights power station’s licence to pollute
Environmental group, Future Sooner, is campaigning to have nitrogen oxide emissions halved at Vales Point Power Station, which it says is “one of the region’s dirtiest power stations” and putting…
Starting over in Spring: The Japanese art of Kaizen
Just like Spring cleaning is a yearly routine for many, cleansing the body and re-establishing healthy habits at this time of year is a long-held tradition, coaxing our sluggish bodies…
Gosford Hospital intensive care capacity questioned
NSW Labor has called on the State Government to outline how it will safely staff an expected increase in ICU cases, with hospitalisations due to COVID-19 expected to peak in…
Bloodbikes make vital deliveries on the Coast
Volunteer riders for the medical courier service Bloodbikes Australia are making deliveries for diagnostic specialists Histopath on the Central Coast and the organisation is in discussions with the local Health…
Ask GPs not pollies how to get more doctors to the region
Forum – Lucy Wicks (Federal Member for Robertson) has form, when it comes to promising new jobs for the Central Coast. Does anybody remember the thousands of new jobs that…
Robotic surgery aids rapid recovery
A Bateau Bay man is the first patient to have undergone a procedure using a new robotic surgical system at Gosford Private Hospital. The da Vinci Xi surgical system by…