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Teddy bears get a check-up
The Northern Hospital foyer was buzzing with kids, parents, Melbourne University students and teddy bears, for another ‘Teddy Bear Hospital’ day. This initiative, held four times a year at Northern Hospital, aims to help kids get familiar with hospital environments and some of the basic equipment, helping our youngest patients feel more comfortable when they
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Get to know: Q&A with Colin Woodward
Get to know: Q&A with… is a new series of Northern Health staff profiles, where we talk about working at Northern, hobbies, personal interests and fun things! The first staff member we’ve interviewed is Colin Woodward. Get to know him: What is your coffee order? I prefer instant coffee. Tell us about your Northern Health
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Learning Improvement Science Turns 50
‘Learning Improvement Science at Northern Health (LISN)’ workshop was established in June 2015, with the aim to give Northern Health staff a way to understand improvement methodology and feel empowered to go back to their work environment and make improvements. LISN is an action learning improvement workshop built around a simulation of Day Procedure Unit
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Black Saturday: A time of reflection and remembrance
On 7 February 2009, the worst bush fires in our nation’s history, the Black Saturday fires claimed 173 human lives, injured 5,000 people, destroyed 2,029 homes, killed countless animals, and burnt through over 4,500-square kilometres of land. Today marks the 10 year anniversary of that day, an event that occurred very close to Northern Hospital, marked
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Brian Hoctor: Along for the journey
The smiling faces of our volunteers are the first people you see as you enter the hospital. Our volunteers form an integral part of how the hospital operates and help us to provide trusted care to our community. Brian Hoctor is a volunteer driver who has been with Northern Health for five years, and is
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Thrombosis research success
Dr Prahlad Ho, Program Director of Diagnostic Services and Director of Clinical Haematology, was recently awarded his PhD for his thesis, ‘Evaluation of the management of venous thromboembolism and application of novel global coagulation assays’, completed in conjunction with the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne. Dr Ho is a joint NHMRC
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Living with diabetes for 70 years
Broadmeadows Hospital patient, Keith Vandome, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was just 7 years old. Today, he is 78, manages his condition very well, exercises regularly and with the help of new diabetes technology, he hopes to see the usual day to day blood glucose monitoring become easier. “The insulin choices and
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Clinical Coding: Are you making the most of your data?
For decades now, coded data has been used to ensure hospitals can be reimbursed for their activity and better plan for services in the future. Clinical coding usually occurs after the patient has been discharged from hospital, where information written in patient notes is translated into coded data and entered into hospital information systems. It
