Dr Vicky Kartsogiannis (PhD), Research Coordinator, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, here at Northern Health, summed it well when she said, “Just wanted to congratulate everyone involved in organising Research Week amongst all challenges in the background. Brilliant as always!”

She went on to say, “Despite being a virtual event, I think it has been a blessing as it allows people to join in from home or wherever they may be.”

Research Week, when we celebrate our many inspired researchers at Northern Health, was marked on 28, 29 and 31 March.

Congratulations to the team of Dr Faten ‘Faye’ Zaibak, Director, Research Operations, Brittany Szabo, Natali Cvetanovska, Rachel Brade and for Professor Peter Brooks AM, for facilitating the event.

As Faye says, “What a week! Research week highlighted the hard work of our researchers in 2021. The week started with Professor John Prins challenging us to think about the healthcare workforce of the future. We learnt about how our research is contributing to understanding the consequences COVID-19 has had on the stillbirth rate. (A/Prof Lisa Hui on the topic of ‘Increase in stillbirths and reduction in medically-indicated preterm birth: adverse impacts of Melbourne lockdown‘). The value of audit in establishing the state of play and identifying further research questions that will ultimately optimise the compliance with surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis in open reduction internal fixation procedures. (‘Surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis in open reduction internal fixation presented by Ms Sarah Hassan.) The role our research can play to help improve allergy testing. (‘Location, location, location: Determining the ideal site for allergen controls in forearm skin prick testing’ presented by Rebekah De Losa.)

The oral presentation award went to A/Prof Lisa Hui with Ms Rebekah De Losa and Ms Sarah Hassan also receiving awards and raising the flag for the next generation of researchers at Northern Health. A big congratulations to our people’s choice winners, Ms Belinda Baines (Best Oral) and Ms Octavia Nakos, medical student at Northern Health (Best Poster). Although voting has ended, the posters and abstract book are available here to view.

Our highlighted division this year was Diagnostic and Cancer Services with a session hosted by A/Prof Prahlad Ho.

“To hear that Belinda Lee’s vision for coordinated big data approaches to treat pancreatic cancer is already making a difference and the Haematology teams OHP assay showing promise in providing a global picture of coagulation and potential for COVID-19 management was exciting,” said Faye.

Prof Anthony Russell rounded off our talks with an outstanding Grand Round, presenting data showing how empowering individuals, and their General Practitioners, can improve outcomes, reduce hospital stay and cost to the health system.

Our overall awardees for Rising Star in Research was Eleanor Johnson and Researcher of the Year, A/Prof Lisa Hui.

“Great to see a nurse win the Rising Star in Research Award, and together with Lisa, see research grow within the Women’s and Children’s division. It was lovely to see A/Prof Hamish Ewing come out of retirement to run the trivia session. Congratulations to Stephen Tucker who, in the last few rounds of the trivia competition, edged past the leader Saz (who was unmasked to be no other than Sarah Hassan),” adds Faye.

Special thanks to Northern Health Foundation and JR Medical Books for their generous sponsorship of Research Week.

Pina Di Donato, Acting Executive Director, Public Affairs and Foundation, said it was heartening to read stories like that of Chris Lynch and know that funding from Northern Health Foundation, was making a difference.

“Funding research is an important part of our mission at Northern Health Foundation,” she said.

As Professor Peter Brooks, AM, Research Lead says, “Research carried out at Northern Health, both before and during the pandemic in the area of ‘virtual health’, will lead to Northern Health being able to deliver many more services outside of hospitals. This has again emphasised the importance of listening and learning from our patients, and from the community, about what they think is important to them.”

“We know that a health service which commits to, and nurtures, a research culture has happier and more satisfied staff and produces better patient outcomes. We should all be proud of the clinical care we deliver, and strive to underpin this with education and research.”

Thank you for participating in Research Week 2022. We would appreciate you taking the time to complete a short survey on Research Week. The survey will only take you 1 – 2 minutes to complete. Your feedback will go towards improving future events. Please click here for survey.

Featured image shows the cover of our 2022 Abstract Book.

Sarah Charles, Quality and Medication Safety Lead Pharmacist and Maxine Vu, Consumer, are working together on the important topic of medication safety. Both have a flexible approach to making things work, and Maxine’s help has been especially appreciated during the last year and a half, and her fitting in to assist Northern Health whilst raising her two young children through lockdowns.

We’ve had a chat with Maxine and Sarah to find out what helps them work well together, how they make a difference and what feels rewarding.

How have the two of you collaborated together?

Sarah: Maxine commenced as a consumer representative on the Medication Safety Committee just before the COVID-19 pandemic started. Since then, we have been touching base regularly via phone or email. Maxine has been a great help for anything Medication Safety related, with which consumer input is of great benefit.

Maxine: Sarah was assigned as my buddy from Northern Health’s Medication Safety Committee to walk me through the meetings and focus areas requiring consumer input.

Please describe some of the projects you worked on.

Sarah: Maxine has been a valuable resource in reviewing a lot of our patient information related to particular medications or medical conditions. We also recently did a large project to add a ‘reason for use’ (indications) section to the medications list, with which we first focused on the top 100 dispensed medications. She was a great help reviewing the options to ensure what we chose was most relevant and patient friendly.

Maxine: As a consumer of Northern Health from a CALD background and being employed locally in disability services, I was able to bring a different perspective on the use of medications in the community, and the importance of people understanding the reason they have been prescribed medications. I was mindful of simple language that was able to be easily understood by people of CALD backgrounds and different literacy levels.

Maxine, could you please give us a bit of a background of your involvement as a consumer at Northern Health?

Maxine: I initially decided to join the committee as I wanted a way to personally contribute to my local community outside of professional employment and be able to influence positive outcomes for all stakeholders.

As Sarah touched on, I commenced just before the pandemic started and therefore had to adapt the way that I contributed to the committee. Amongst working from home, homeschooling and being locked down, I found it difficult to participate in the virtual committee meetings monthly and discussed with Sarah being able to contribute my feedback flexibly via email/phone calls instead. I found this has worked well, as it has given me more time to reflect on my responses on the key areas requiring consumer input, whereas in a meeting you may not necessarily have an answer to a question when put on the spot.

Sarah, how has consumer participation helped your work?

Sarah: Maxine is such a great help, she always provides really great feedback from a different perspective and is really responsive and willing to help. We recently had a conversation around how she has found being a consumer representative at Northern Health, including both what she has liked and what we can do to help in future with the role. She also highlighted some of the challenges with the COVID-19 pandemic. We presented this interview to the Medication Safety Committee, who found the feedback and suggestions for improvement really helpful. The committee agreed, this type of conversation should be initiated and presented at each standards committee with consumers to help the committee continue to grow and support consumers.

Anything else you’d like to share?

Sarah: I’m so grateful to have Maxine as our consumer representative and look forward to continuing to work with her.

Maxine: I have enjoyed my time on the committee so far and, having a buddy like Sarah who is patient and flexible, has helped the experience to not be too overwhelming. I look forward to continuing the collaboration in person.

Featured image: Sarah Charles (left) and Maxine Vu (right)

We are one year away from Northern Health’s Electronic Medical Record (EMR) ‘go-live’ on 3 April 2023. Looking ahead, this will be an exciting year for all staff including our EMR analysts, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), champions and Accountable Leaders. 

 As the EMR workflows are being built and tested in the coming months, there will be more opportunities for EMR champions, super-users and staff, to see and learn more about the system before training starts in early 2023. Thank you to our EMR champions who have been involved and who joined the March EMR champion briefing, where the EMR patient journey board was introduced.  

“We have been looking forward to meeting our champions in person and it was great to restart the program again after the necessary pause in recent months. We have a program to keep champions up to date each month and to learn about the workflows. We encourage staff to find out who their local champion is by asking their manager,” says Elspeth Fink-Jensen, EMR Change Manager.

“If you would like to be a champion, you can always contact the EMR team to sign up. We run briefings with a hybrid approach so our champions can choose to attend the session in person or via MS teams.”

EMR training preparation will be underway, starting May, as we recruit EMR trainers to join the team to develop training materials. They will also be responsible for facilitating classroom training sessions, as well as supporting our staff during go-live in 2023. 

“Other than EMR trainers, we will be seeking expressions of interest for the role of super-users in May to further support our staff during go-live. The role will be supernumerary which allows the super-user to provide ‘at the elbow’ support to their peers,” says Cliff Wiltshire, EMR Training Manager.

For more information on training, click here. 

Behind the scenes, the EMR technical team is setting up the training rooms (located at all sites, including NCHER), as well as purchasing new workstations on wheels (WOWs), laptop carts, label and ID band printers and barcode scanners. 

Being one year away from go-live, your thoughts on the Northern Health EMR are important to us, which is why we encourage you to complete the EMR survey so we can make sure our communications reach you in the right way. 

The EMR survey is anonymous and is open until 11.59 pm on 14 April 2022. As a token of gratitude to our staff for taking their time to complete the survey despite their busy schedule, you can enter a lucky draw and win a hamper! 

Trish Aldridge, EMR Director, expressed her thanks and strongly encourages Northern Health staff “to spread the word about the survey, as the results are extremely valuable and insightful for the EMR team.” 

Complete the EMR survey now! 

On April Fools’ Day, we all tend to have a joke and a laugh, but unfortunately, falls are just not funny.

‘April Falls’ is a national initiative to raise awareness to the serious issue of falls and harm resulting from falls.

On this year’s April Fools’ Day, we want to highlight the seriousness of falls in our hospital and under our care. As falls are so important, the Falls Committee is running an inaugural ‘April Falls Week’ campaign, not just today, but over the next week, to remind staff of the important role we can all play to reduce falls with our patients.

Uyen Phan, Associate Director Allied Health and Chair of Falls Committee, explained the importance of minimising falls.

“Falls are everyone’s responsibility. Hospital falls and harm from falls is a serious issue facing all health services, with Northern Health being no exception. For the past number of years, the rate of falls has increased, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic,” Uyen said.

Falls and harm from falls can result in poorer health outcomes to patients and their carer’s, including pain, dysfunction, fear and anxiety of further falls. Falls can also increase hospital length of stay and greater health resource utilisation.

“Despite continual focus on falls risk screening, assessment and implementation of prevention strategies, the number of falls and harm from falls remains stubbornly high. We all have a role to play in reducing them,” said Uyen.

So what can be done to help?

“At a patient level, all patients at Northern Health have a falls risk assessment completed with implementation of appropriate falls minimisation strategies every shift. Patients are assessed for known falls risk factors such as a history of falls, delirium, lower limb weakness and multiple or high falls risk medication,” Uyen explained.

High falls risk patients should be highlighted on communication boards at the bedside. Where able, patients and carers should be educated on falls and provided with information. Clinical practices such as nurse rounding, allied health assessment and provision of appropriate aid and equipment can also help to minimise falls.

Northern Health also runs programs such as the Falls and Balance Service and Balance Boost Outpatient Program.

“At a clinical level, appropriate falls risk assessment and implementation of strategies are important measures. We also know the majority of falls are unwitnessed. All staff can answer the patient call bell and reassure patients to provide greater supervision,” Uyen explained.

High falls risks patients should be referred to allied health as required.

“In the event that a patient does have a fall, complete the falls-post incident review form, review the patient falls risk assessment, and update the daily plan of care and falls management plan with the patient and carer. Lastly, if not familiar, reach out and learn more,” Uyen said.

“At a ward level, nursing, allied health and medical colleagues would all have experience in managing falls. All wards collect and monitor falls data and falls initiative, so speak to an experienced colleague.”

The Falls and Harm from Falls Committee page on the intranet contains important and relevant procedures, forms, patient education brochure and resources, and links to Best Practice sites.

Lastly, the Falls Committee is a dedicated and passionate group with representation across the organisation and would be very happy to provide further information or hear your ideas on how we can improve falls at Northern Health.

The team have also created a Falls Quiz and we encourage all staff to have a go – a $100 gift voucher is up for grabs! Click here to do the quiz.

This is Research Week, when we celebrate our many inspired researchers at Northern Health. 

Chris Lynch is a self-described late starter. He commenced his undergraduate degree at the age of 30, and didn’t begin his PhD until the age of 45, when he received a Northern Health Foundation PhD Scholarship in 2015. Chris completed his PhD in 2021.

Chris says, “I will be forever grateful to the Northern Health Foundation and Northern Health for the support they provided during my PhD Candidature. Few, if any, PhD journeys follow a smooth path, and mine certainly wasn’t, but the support, access, and opportunity afforded to me through Northern Health helped with each step.”

He says the time in between the start of a project and its completion is crucial. “You have to be independent, a self-starter, motivated, and grow in your own confidence of what you are doing and why.”

“There are other ‘important’ parts of your candidature though, for example, presenting (even if it’s just a poster) as I did at the Northern Health Research Week, recruiting participants for your study, submitting your first publication, being rejected for the first time, being accepted for the first time.”

Speaking of the challenges he faced, Chris says, “I was lucky that the impact of COVID begun just as I was finishing data collection, so I escaped in that sense. Of course, depending on where you are on the PhD journey, pivoting because of COVID can be challenging.”

However, it also gave Chris, “quiet space and time to undertake writing.”

Possibly the biggest challenge Chris faced was when he decided to leave the security of his job as a teacher to commit to full-time studies.

“While the PhD has some support, and offered part-time teaching etc, it was far below where I had come from, and the workload of PhD plus work, was heavy,” he said.

It is also why he is so grateful to the Northern Health Foundation.

“The opportunity they provide, through offering to support a PhD candidate’s research project, can be of huge benefit. It is confidence boosting, as someone else has belief that your work is worthy and has merit,” Chris said.

‘Throughout the long and arduous PhD process, I often drew motivation that I was also doing the work to repay that support from the Foundation. Of course, for my particular circumstances, the financial support was also very important.”

“Whenever I am at Northern and I meet patients, students, and staff, and I feel proud to be part of it and grateful to have been supported by it.”

Pina Di Donato, Acting Executive Director, Public Affairs and Foundation, believes, “funding research is an important part of our mission at Northern Health Foundation.”

“We are pleased to follow the success of our PhD candidates, as are our donors. We are very proud of Chris’s work and wish him well in his future endeavours.”

Northern Health Foundation currently support four PhD students and awarded four project grants in 2021.

The Northern Health Research Week Abstract Book 2022 is now available, with details on Research Week presentations and showcasing the research being done by our Northern Health researchers and collaborators.

View the virtual Research Week 2022 posters here and cast your vote for the People’s Choice Award for Best Poster.

For more information, please visit the Research Week pages here.

Yesterday, Northern Health hosted Jacob Aarup-Andersen, ISS A/S Global CEO.

ISS A/S is a global facilities management company based in Denmark and is the provider of hospitality services at Northern Health.

Jacob became the CEO of ISS A/S in 2020 and has since launched a new strategy referred to as ‘One ISS’, designed to make the organisation simpler, stronger and closer in the pursuit of its purpose of connecting people and places. He is visiting Australia to personally deliver the message of ‘One ISS’, and to get a firsthand update on the progress of the Australia and New Zealand team in delivering this strategy.

Jacob’s visit to Northern Health also comes as ISS has been awarded a new five-year contract with the health service.

There are more than 300 ISS staff working at Northern Health, providing both food and cleaning services, with the ISS team supporting Northern Health since 2016.

During the visit, Jacob met with Siva Sivarajah, Chief Executive, Debra Bourne, Chief Operating Officer and Greg Warman, Director Support Services.

Jacob then met the Northern Health ISS team for lunch, where a raft of awards were presented to staff.

Sarab Dhillon was awarded an Apple Award for his help during an incident in the loading dock. A CEO Hero Award was presented to Alexander Stojanovic, who self-nominated himself to work in the COVID Wards full-time, assisting with the meal service.

Don Goonesekera was presented with a Hero Award for being a responsible and committed member of the cleaning team, and for bringing his can-do attitude to work.

Hanna Ah-Hi also won a Hero Award for her hard work in the catering team.

Saj Amerasinghe, ISS Key Account Manager, was presented with the ISS Key Account Manager of the Year Award.

Jacob congratulated the award winners and recognised the great efforts of the Northern Health ISS team.

“There is nothing better than spending time with the people who matter. The stories we just heard about how you have gone completely above and beyond over the last couple of years, dealing with COVID-19, but just every single day, taking it to the next level,” he said.

“I am so impressed by what you have done and I am very proud to be your colleague. This session is just another testament to what an amazing team you are. Thank you very much – keep it up because you make all of us incredibly proud.”

Saj said it was an honour to host Jacob.

“The ISS Global and Pacific Leadership visit to Northern Health was an opportunity to recognise the great efforts of our staff to keep patients safe and satisfied in a very challenging environment. This is a real testament to our purpose of connecting people and places to make the world work better.”

“This was a great opportunity to discuss the ‘One ISS’ strategy new operating model, the importance of the Northern Health contract and the value of our long term partnerships for ISS Australia and globally. Northern Health is one of the long term key accounts of ISS Australia and I would personally like to thank Northern Health for giving the ISS Leadership Team the opportunity to visit the site and to making it a memorable one for all the staff on site.”

Featured image (L-R): Scott Davis, CEO Asia Pacific, Aaron Cauchi, Executive General Manager Health, Stuart Rose, Chief Executive Officer Australia & New Zealand, Troels Bjerg, Global Group Chief Operating Officer, Jacob Aarup-Andersen, ISS A/S Global CEO, Saj Amerasinghe, ISS Key Account Manager Northern Health.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week is Research Week, when we celebrate our many inspired researchers at Northern Health. In our story yesterday, Professor Peter Brooks AM, Research Lead here at Northern Health, highlighted the many research studies our staff are involved in. Dr Sanjeevan Muruganandan features prominently in this list.

Dr Sanjeevan Muruganandan, Northern Health lung specialist and pleural lead, would like to change the way we manage malignant pleural effusion (MPE).

Pleural diseases, which occur when there is a problem in the chest cavity, are common and the burden is increasing.

In Victoria, the current standard of care for MPE involves pleurodesis, which Sanjeevan maintains is costly, painful and associated with prolonged hospital admissions.

Says Sanjeevan, “One in four people with MPE will need a repeat procedure post-pleurodesis during their short lifespan. Yet, health services generally do not always offer alternatives to pleurodesis despite current guideline.”

He blames this on “clinical inertia” and says, “One of the possible major barriers is a lack of expertise across other health services.”

He, along with Kirstin Tirant, Pleural Clinical Nurse Consultant, are showing there is a better way, through their Specialised Ambulatory Pleural Service (SAPS), a subsidiary of the Pleural Medicine Unit here at Northern Health. SAPS aims to improve access to evidence-based and minimally invasive management options for pleural diseases that will eventually result in reduced healthcare utilisation.

Sanjeevan, supported by the Northern Health Respiratory Department, was successful in his application for a grant from the HCF Research Foundation, that will help evaluate the feasibility of expanding this, Victoria’s first Specialised Ambulatory Pleural Service.

“Digitalising the SAPS model-of care will revolutionise a program that already applies evidence-based management strategies, that will not only reduce hospitalisation but further enhance the utilisation of an ambulatory model of care,” says Sanjeevan.

Celebrating 20 years of contributions to healthcare research, the HCF Research Foundation was established to drive research, enquiry and innovation in the delivery of healthcare.

The HCF Research Foundation received 125 high quality applications across Australia, making it a very competitive process.

Titled, ‘Digital Health to Extend Victoria’s First Specialised Ambulatory Pleural Service: A Proof-of-Concept Feasibility Study,’ Sanjeevan’s application represents a paradigm shift within the Victorian health system, towards a specialised, but ultimately person-centred, approach to MPE management.

As his application says, “The management of malignant pleural effusion (MPE) remains fragmented in Australia with very different care models, employed across health services that may result in suboptimal quality care leading to poor outcomes in this vulnerable population group. Despite high quality evidence that indwelling pleural catheters (IPC) reduces time spent in hospital and the need for further invasive pleural intervention, utilisation of IPC has been poor.”

He explains that most health services are not equipped with the expertise or resources to support IPC in the community.

“Difficulty accessing hospital services due to the COVID-19 pandemic will inevitably worsen outcomes for MPE in coming years and novel approaches are needed.”

Sanjeevan firmly believes that to maximise independence and quality of life benefits, IPC management in the community requires, “an innovative, flexible and responsive model-of-care to deliver expertise to patients when they need it, while avoiding frequent hospital and clinic visits.”

The funding support from the HCF Foundation will ensure this novel model-of-care is appropriately evaluated. The study will determine feasibility and safety, while comparing outcomes and patient satisfaction.

Sanjeevan hopes that the results will drive further expansion of a digital health approach to managing MPE in the community.

The Northern Health Research Week Abstract Book 2022 is now available, with details on Research Week presentations and showcasing the research being done by our Northern Health researchers and collaborators.

For more information, please visit the Research Week pages here.

View the virtual Research Week 2022 posters here and cast your vote  for the People’s Choice Award for Best Poster.

This is Research Week, when we celebrate our many inspired researchers at Northern Health. As Professor Peter Brooks, Research Lead, says in our story today, “it highlights the quality of research projects occurring across the spectrum, that are being driven by an increasing number of our Northern Health staff.”

Once again this year, Research Week is being held  as a virtual event, against the backdrop of COVID. Here is Professor Brooks’ report on how we have fared.

Let us acknowledge that, over the past two years, we have all been pushed to the limits and beyond – yet we have come through it. The community that is Northern Health can be justly proud of its resolve, and while research has been affected in many ways, new opportunities have arisen.

This week we celebrate Research Week 2022 which, like last year, will be a primarily ‘virtual’ event with virtual presentations, posters and guest speakers. We will highlight the quality of research occurring across the spectrum, that is being driven by an increasing number of our Northern Health staff.

We know that a health service which commits to, and nurtures, a research culture has happier and more satisfied staff and produces better patient outcomes. We should all be proud of the clinical care we deliver, and strive to underpin this with education and research.

During 2022, a major review of the Research Office was conducted, which has resulted, amongst other things, in the appointment of Dr Faye Zaibak as Director of Operations (Research).

Faye has already made an enormous difference to research and ethics processes and is providing support for development of clinical trials procedures across Northern Health, including important investigator-initiated trials.

Northern Health researchers have played major roles in trials of a variety of treatments for COVID and COVID-related symptoms.

As well as, therapeutic interventions studies, on how we have been communicating with some of our linguistically and culturally diverse populations, and has shown new ways of delivering care which enable us to achieve better patient outcomes.

Research carried out at Northern Health, both before and during the pandemic in the area of ‘virtual health’, (be it telehealth, in and out of hospital monitoring and home-based healthcare solutions), will lead to Northern Health being able to deliver many more services outside of hospitals. This has again emphasised the importance of listening and learning from our patients, and from the community, about what they think is important to them.

Of note is the increasing volume of projects being conducted with our academic partners; Melbourne, La Trobe, RMIT and Swinburne Universities. Highlights include:

• NHMRC funded national multi-site study, to improve palliative care in Residential Aged Care using Telehealth (Dr Barbara Hayes and Mark Tacey),
• NHMRC funded national multi-site study, focusing on End of Life Planning (Dr Barbara Hayes is one of the primary investigators),
• Grant from La Trobe University for ‘Digital health care delivery for people with CVD: e-Nav for Heart Health’  (Professor Brian Oldenberg from La Trobe University is the Primary Investigator, Dr Rebecca Jessup, Anthony Gust and Adam Semciw from Northern Health are Chief Investigators )
• Grant awarded for the study of digital technology and virtual care delivery in Australia (Dr Rebecca Jessup and Anthony Gust),
• A study partnering with consumers to co-design comprehensive abortion care from the Nurses Board of Victoria (Eleanor Johnson),
• Grant awarded to establish clinical trial of heparin use in COVID at Northern Health with partners from the University of Melbourne and Monash University valued at $4.2 million (Prof Don Campbell),
• A grant from Department of Education and Training to develop a new workforce of Health Navigators valued at $2.3 million with Swinburne University and Medibank Private with Northern Health as the lead agency (Prof Peter Brooks, Dr Rebecca Jessup and Anthony Gust),
• $296,000 funding from the HCF Research Foundation for “Digital health to extend Victoria’s first specialised ambulatory pleural service: a proof of concept study.” (Dr Sanjeevan Muruganandan).

Increasingly, Northern Health researchers are being recognised at National and International Meetings, such as A/Prof Lisa Hui winning top prize at RANZCOG Annual Scientific Meeting.

Finally, we must continue to contribute to the literature and can take pride in that, in 2021, Northern Health researchers published 225 journal articles.

Northern Health can be proud of its researchers and the standard of the research they produce, and we acknowledge the continuing support of the Northern Health Foundation. They currently support four PhD students directly and awarded four project grants in 2021.

Congratulations and thank you to all who have contributed to research and, in turn, deliver trusted care for our community, now and into the future.

Professor Peter Brooks, AM

Research Lead – Northern Health

 

The Northern Health Research Week Abstract Book 2022 is now available, with details on Research Week presentations and showcasing the research being done by our Northern Health researchers and collaborators.

For more information, please visit the Research Week pages here.

View the virtual Research Week 2022 posters here and cast your vote for the People’s Choice Award for Best Poster.