2018
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The new Code Surge: Everyone’s responsibility
Code Surge, developed in June this year, is Northern Health’s process for solving periods of peak demand in our Emergency Department. Overcapacity in the emergency department can be a safety and quality issue and impacts both the patients waiting for a bed and those in the waiting room waiting to be seen. To address this, Northern Health developed a
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Teddy Bear Hospital: Today’s the day…
It’s Teddy Bear Hospital today at Northern, with our youngest community members and patients, together with Melbourne University medical students, checking up on their teddy bears. The Teddy Bear Hospital is a unique educational program established and actively run by volunteer medical, nursing, physiotherapy, optometry and dentistry students of the University of Melbourne. Northern Hospital hosts the
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Put on your dancing shoes for our Annual Dinner
Northern Celebrates, a month dedicated to Northern Health’s events, awards and celebrations kicks off with our Annual Dinner on October 6. It’s time to get your colleagues, staff and family together, put on your dancing shoes and celebrate collective achievements of Northern Health. During last year’s annual dinner, over $100,000 was raised for our Emergency
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Racing for Research
On Saturday 8 September, Northern Health Foundation Patron Bev Carman hosted the annual Northern Health Foundation Race Day at the Kilmore Racing Club. As a long standing supporter of Northern Health, Bev is passionate about improving the health of her community and has a circle of dedicated supporters who assist in setting up the event.
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R U Listening?
“When someone asks you how you are, instead of the trite answer ‘fine how are you?’…stop, pause and reflect on how you are really.” – David Paterson, Pastoral Care, Northern Health. Conversations on Mental Wellness continues tomorrow on R U OK DAY, with Dr Eric Levi speaking at NCHER at 8 am. “This time the spotlight
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And the winner is…
Ladies and gentleman, we have the winners of our first Great Northern Bake Off! Our award winners in each category have been announced, after our dedicated judges had the serious task of rewarding the ‘best of the best’. Chief Legal Officer, Mr John Snowdon, said judging the bake off was an amazing experience – “the
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The Great Northern Bake Off: Baking the world a better place
The Great Northern Bake Off has just kicked off – with a display of cakes and muffins any Master Baker would be jealous of – complete with visual and even sound effects! Our staff’s efforts are definitely not going unnoticed, with Vinod Chellarm, Deputy Director Pharmacy, saying “the Hospital should maybe look at opening a
