2018
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Occupational Therapy Week
This week is Occupational Therapy (OT ) Week, where we celebrate the wonderful work of our occupational therapists in helping people at all stages of life reach their potential. Occupational Therapy is a client-centred health profession concerned with promoting health and wellbeing through therapeutic interventions. It assists with returning function to patients who have experienced
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Think Pink: Breast Cancer Awareness Week
This week we are encouraging staff to ‘Think Pink’, focus on breast cancer, and its impact on those affected in our community. Breast cancer remains the most common type of cancer among Australian women (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer). On average, 8 people die of breast cancer every day. The risk of being diagnosed with cancer
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Emergo: Critical Incident Management
This week, Northern Health hosted an Emergo exercise. Emergo is a mass casualty simulation exercise facilitated by the Department of Health and Human Services and Ambulance Victoria to evaluate an organisation’s incident management systems, disaster preparedness and resilience. The simulated ‘code brown’ disaster was a train crash on the Epping line, including a fire and suspected terrorist
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First Staff Recognition Awards
This week Northern Health held the inaugural Staff Recognition Awards, acknowledging teams and individuals in a wide range of areas who have demonstrated commitment to high quality outcomes. The six categories and their winners were presented by our Chief Executive Siva Sivarajah, who said that staff recognised at these Awards are exemplars in a positive
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Briana Baass: Staying Well
On a recent humid Darwin day, I sat in a room full of people passionate about health service management, waiting for the final speaker of the Australasian College of Health Service Management (ACHSM) Congress. It had been a huge week, jam-packed with inspirational presentations, sharing of ideas and the forming of new connections. The closing
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Annual Dinner: Wrap up
What an enjoyable night it was at Northern Health’s Annual Dinner. It was a night filled with great entertainment, laughter, good food and numerous prizes, as well as support from everyone involved. Yvonne Amos, Northern Health Foundation Director, expressed her gratitude to all that attended. “Thank you to our sponsors, supporters, volunteers and Northern Health
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Week Without Violence
One in three Australian women over the age of 15 has experienced physical or sexual violence and/or emotional abuse by an intimate partner. One in four women has experienced emotional abuse by a current or former partner. One in five women has experienced sexual violence since the age of 15. On average, one woman a
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Our researchers part of the LaunchVic’s funded Actuator
The Melbourne-based ‘Actuator’ is one of Australia’s premier MedTech commercialisation initiatives. The Actuator has partnered with hospitals across Victoria to drive clinically-led innovations and provide a pathway for hospital entrepreneurs and startups to access the Actuator accelerator and MedTech’s Got Talent programs. Northern Health Research Lead Peter Brooks, said this will be a very exciting