This morning, Northern Health hosted our second Quarterly Staff Recognition Awards ceremony. These awards have been designed to formally recognise outstanding contributions by our employees and celebrate staff excellence. Northern Health Chief Executive, Siva Sivarajah, presented the awards to this round of recipients. “We have over 5,000 staff in a wide range of areas, dedicated

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Northern Health continually strives to improve its responsiveness to diversity and the language, religious and cultural needs of our community. We provide the same quality of service for all patients and their families, regardless of their ethnicity and ability to speak English – an important consideration given our patients are born in 184 countries, speak

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Laura Raiti started working at Northern Health as an intern in 2016. Just two years on, after commencing her paediatric training with us, she was awarded the 2018 Victorian Junior Doctor of the Year award, by the Confederation of Postgraduate Medical Education Councils (CPMEC). Laura tells us about her Northern Health journey. “Following my internship

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Kim Kennedy is a former Broadmeadows Hospital dialysis patient using her own experience to help others. She first connected with Northern Health in 2011, having end stage renal failure, and started peritoneal dialysis in 2013 until she converted to haemodialysis in 2016. The diagnosis of kidney failure came as a shock to Kim, who had

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Northern Health’s Daily Safety Brief is a daily huddle whereby all areas of the organisation come together to highlight any issues affecting patient and staff safety that might have happened in the previous 24 hours, and whether anything is predicted to happen over the next 24 hours. Jane Poxon, Chief Operating Officer, leads the huddle

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They say laughter is the best medicine, and our youngest patients at Northern Hospital Epping got to test that theory out today thanks to another visit from the ‘clown doctors’. Clown doctors provide a welcome escape from the reality of hospitalisation, visiting patients and their families to bring humour to healing. Laughter not only relaxes

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Yesterday, we welcomed Channel Nine to Northern Hospital Epping to interview Cardiologist and University of Melbourne Professor, Peter Barlis, about a cutting-edge technology used to create virtual scans of inside coronary arteries. In collaboration with Melbourne University, the world-first virtual reality technology has been designed to give cardiologists greater information and help to improve clinical

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This week, Northern Health launched its new Oncology and Haematology Symptom and Urgent Review Clinic (SURC). SURC is a free service for any patient with cancer, who is experiencing distressing side effects from undergoing systemic (chemotherapy or immunotherapy) treatment at Northern Health. SURCs provide an alternative to patients attending the emergency department (for those with non-critical

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