October 2019
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Take a swing at the Foundation Golf Day
Get your golf clubs ready for a great day while raising money for an even better cause! Club Mandalay, Beveridge are proudly supporting Northern Health Foundation by hosting their first Charity Golf Day – this year to be held on Friday 25 October. Proceeds raised will go towards Northern Health Foundation’s defibrillator campaign, raising $450,000 to provide 60 state of the art defibrillators across our four campuses. The state of the art upgrade will ensure Northern Health have the latest models and best possible equipment across our health service. With your help, we can better support the northern community and…
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National Standards Accreditation and Research Week
Northern Health’s National Standards Accreditation In May 2020, surveyors will assess Northern Health’s services against the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards in order to provide us with health service Accreditation. The NSQHS Standards are a guide for us to achieve best practice when delivering health care, and provide a nationally consistent statement about the standard of care consumers can expect from their local health service. By achieving Accreditation, our community can have confidence that the care they receive at Northern Health is safe, of a high quality and meets national standards. Commencing next Tuesday, 15 October, we…
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Research at Northern Health is not just about Research Week
What an exciting year it has been for research at Northern Health, reflected by the posters and presentations at our capstone event, Research Week 2019. These contributions highlight the quality of research activities occurring across the clinical spectrum being driven by an increasing number of staff at Northern Health. We know that a health service which commits to, and nurtures, a research culture has better patient outcomes and happier and more satisfied staff and patients. We should be very proud of the clinical care we deliver and we are underpinning it with education and research. This will ensure we evaluate…
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Get to know… Maree Glynn
In this week’s Get to know: Q&A with… we catch up with Maree Glynn, Director of Clinical Practice Improvement. Get to know Maree: What’s your coffee order? I actually don’t drink coffee! Tell us about your Northern Health journey? It would be hard to say that I am not totally committed to Northern Health. I have spent 40 years of my working life at either PANCH or Northern Health. I love the talent and the, “can do,” attitude of the staff and the commitment they have in making it better for people in the north. Prior to commencing at Northern Health,…
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Research Week 2019: A culture of research
As part of Research Week 2019, Northern Health staff have an opportunity to present and have their research assessed – both as posters and oral presentations. As Professor Peter Brooks, Research Lead at Northern Health says, “These contributions highlight the quality of research activities occurring across the clinical spectrum.” “By reviewing and evaluating what we do, and how we do it,” he adds, “it gives our staff the opportunity to change things for the better and deliver trusted care for our community, now and into the future.” Oral presentations happen today at 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm and between 10…
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Research Week 2019 kicks off
Research Week at Northern Health annually showcases a range of local and innovative research projects and presentations from research leaders from around the world. Professor Helena Teede spoke at the launch of Research Week 2019, making an impassioned case for the community, health care providers and health services to play a key role in priority setting, design and delivery of research and translation to deliver health impact in Australia. Professor Teede is the Executive Director of Monash Partners Academic Health Science Centre and the Director of Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation, School of Public Health, Monash University. She is passionate…
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Eight reasons to attend Research Week 2019
Research Week at Northern Health annually showcases a range of local and innovative research projects and presentations from research leaders around the world. This year, Research Week will be held from 7 to 11 October with presentations at Northern Centre for Health Education & Research (NCHER), Northern Hospital Lecture Theatre and the Conference Room at Percy Cleland Ward, Bundoora Centre. “We are privileged to have an exciting range of speakers at this year’s Research Week,” says Professor Peter Brooks AM, Northern Health Research Lead. “They will force us to reflect upon our current practices and challenge us to explore how…
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First multidisciplinary spinal education session
With the aim to improve care provided to patients with spinal fractures, Northern Health recently held the first information sharing and practical session at Northern Hospital. Northern Health developed the spinal management plan in 2016 in order to have a standardised approached to managing our growing population. In line with the HRO principles, there have been multiple meetings with the multidisciplinary team, in the hope of developing a confident and capable workforce to manage these patients. Melanie Hogan, Associate Director Allied Health Physiotherapy, said this was the first of a series of peer workshops being presented by members of the…