Gosford Hospital workers have voted to shut down the new temporary Patient Enquiry counter until continuing safety concerns are addressed. The counter closed from 7am, on December 18, after workers…
Gosford Hospital has been given a clean bill of health under the inter-agency Fire Safety and External Wall Cladding Taskforce. In response to questions from Coast Community News, Central Coast…
Woy Woy should be considered as a location of a regional palliative care hospice on the Central Coast, according to a palliative care campaigner. Campaigner Ms Oana McBride said Woy…
The Peninsula’s annual Prostate Charity Bowls day has raised $16,000 for the Central Coast Local Health District. Umina Beach, Ettalong and Everglades Men’s Bowling Clubs raised the funds to go…
Cancer Council Central Coast’s Relay for Life event was held at the Mingara Athletics Track on November 24-25. The annual event is held at venues across NSW and sees thousands…
Designs have been unveiled for the Wyong Hospital redevelopment. Member for Terrigal, Adam Crouch, Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Scot MacDonald, and Member of the Legislative Council, Taylor Martin,…
Central Coast Council’s White Ribbon Information Day event was held in Gosford’s Kibble Park on November 30. “A giant banner bearing the number 52 was a feature of the Day….
A Gosford Private Hospital Neurosurgeon has become the first surgeon in Australia to successfully implant artificial spacers into the spine. Dr Marc Coughlan specialises in minimally invasive spinal procedures, including…
A program to help local cancer patients, has been given a boost from an $80,000 donation, thanks to this year’s Dry July campaign. The donation is a combination of money…
Federal Member for Robertson, Lucy Wicks, has announced that the Morrison Government will deliver an additional $3.3m in funding for student places at the Central Coast Medical School and Research…
Ten weeks on from the death of Mischelle Rhodes, the 19-year-old who died from meningococcal disease after being discharged from Gosford Hospital, her family is continuing to seek answers. Anjini…
All high schools were advised that the School Immunisation Team from the Public Health Unit are offering free catch up immunisation sessions for students that missed their school vaccination sessions….
Federal Member for Robertson, Lucy Wicks, spoke in Parliament, on October 18, in response to the report of the Inquiry into Bio-Toxin Related Illnesses (CIRS), released by the Standing Committee…
Woy Woy South Public School has advised that there are a number of confirmed cases of chicken pox at the school. “We have had a small number of students diagnosed…
A development application for a transitional group home for drug and alcohol rehabilitation at 74 Glen Road, Ourimbah, has been refused by Central Coast Council. The supplementary report to Council…
The Choosing Hope Walk, an initiative of Bears of Hope Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support, was held at Saltwater Creek Reserve, along the Long Jetty Foreshore, on October 14. Bears…
A PhD student at the University of Newcastle Ourimbah Campus is undergoing a research project to answer the age old questions parents everywhere ask themselves every dinner time, how to…
Fundraising for the 2018 Central Coast Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Walk is ongoing, and the event founder and organiser, Margaret Sheridan, hopes that the 2018 campaign will be the…
Central Coast Council has topped local workplaces and is a national leader in donating lifesaving blood to the Red Cross’ appeal for urgently required blood and plasma. Council headed a…
An increase in injuries and health issues associated with a sedentary lifestyle and a decrease in physical injuries is the greatest change that a local Umina chiropractor has seen in…