2022
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Healthier options on the menu
Staff, patients and visitors to Northern Health have a healthier selection of food and drink in all of the vending machines across the health service. Northern Health made the switch to Provender – a fresh food vending machine company – to provide the healthier options. Our new vending machines offer a range of muesli slices,
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Handy Sandy keeping everything dandy
Meet Sandy, the latest innovation at Northern Health. Sandy is a LeoScrub, a robotic floor scrubber, designed to bring cleaning efficiencies to the health service. Northern Health is also the first health service across Australia to have Sandy implemented into hospital operations. Saj Amerasinghe, ISS Key Account Manager, said Sandy will allow hospital cleaners to
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Analgesic stewardship pilot program on the way
Northern Health is working with Safer Care Victoria, Acute Pain Service (APS) and surgical teams to create a pilot program focusing on analgesic stewardship across Northern Hospital, aiming to produce significant, positive changes for our patients. Danni Miatke, Project Lead and Grade 3 Analgesic Stewardship Pharmacist, explained one of the priority actions for Australia, on
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Research week 2022: Listening and learning from our patients
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
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Partnering with consumers: Sarah and Maxine
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
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Let the EMR ‘go-live’ countdown begin!Â
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
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April Falls: Falls are everyone’s responsibility
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
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Inspired Researcher: Chris Lynch
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