February 2022
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Eve app turns one!
Today marks the one year anniversary of the launch of our pregnancy and birthing mobile app, Eve! Eve was designed to enhance the pregnancy and parenting experience for mothers in the northern community by providing access to evidence-based information relating to pregnancy, birthing and early parenting. When women book in to have their baby at
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Welcome back volunteers!
A lot has changed in the last two years, but the enthusiasm of our dedicated volunteers has remained the same. Today, our volunteers are feeling the extra love on Valentine’s Day, as we welcome them back onsite throughout the week, after a long two years without seeing their happy faces filling the hospital halls and
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Jeanette Eddy is going home
“She was always staying back to help our patients and was forever saying, ‘I’m going home in a minute!’” recalls Danielle Williams, who worked alongside Jeanette Eddy at the Progressive Neurological Diseases (PND) Clinic at Bundoora Centre (previously named Bundoora Extended Care Centre). After over 50 years of service, Jeanette Eddy is finally going home
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Josie Minniti’s OAM Annual Fundraising Dinner Dance
It’s been a long three years between dances, but Josie Minniti’s Dinner Dance Cancer Fundraiser is finally back! Josie Minniti’s Dinner Dance isn’t one you’ll want to miss out on. Heels will be kicked up in celebration of an incredible 25 years of fundraising for vital equipment for Northern Health’s Day Oncology Unit. This equipment
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Bringing the Cancer Giving Tree to life
Northern Health Cancer Services is committed to providing the best care to our cancer affected patients and families. With the help of our generous community, Northern Health can continue to provide this high quality care to our patients. Over the many years, we have received donations from grateful patients and families as their way of
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Krinal Mori wins MD2 Teacher of the Year
“What makes a good clinical teacher?”, asks Associate Professor Leonie Griffiths, Director Northern Clinical School. As she explains, this has been “the subject of much debate and numerous literature reviews over the years. The pandemic has taught us the value of providing students with clinical role models who can support learners, make sense of the patient
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Welcome new Non-Clinical Ward Assistants
During the recent Omicron surge, Northern Health held a virtual ‘Ideas Lab’ to help generate ideas on how we could minimise the impact to our workforce and patients. One of the ideas was to seek interest from the community in assisting our staff on the wards with non-clinical duties. That is how the Non-Clinical Ward
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Today is World Cancer Day
Cancer doesn’t stop for COVID-19. Over the past two years, our community has been significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. On top of dealing with a new way of living for everybody, there are still many people battling cancer. Today is World Cancer Day – celebrated every year on 4 February to raise global awareness