2023
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Purple Day 2023: Living with Epilepsy
Yesterday, 26 March was Purple Day – a global initiative dedicated to raising epilepsy awareness and shining a light on people living with epilepsy. Purple Day was founded in 2008 by nine-year-old Cassidy Megan of Nova Scotia, Canada. Her own struggle with epilepsy was her primary motivation to get people talking openly about the condition.
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Northern Health celebrates Harmony Day and Cultural Diversity Week
This week, Northern Health celebrated Harmony Day and Cultural Diversity Week. Harmony Day is held every year on 21 March, to coincide with the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The 2023 theme for Harmony Day was ‘Everyone belongs’. On this day, we celebrated Australia’s diversity and paid cultural respect to
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ISS wins Operations Performance Award
The Northern Health ISS Facility Services team was recently awarded the ISS Operations Performance Award at the 2022 Pacific Leadership Conference in the Northern Territory. The team was recognised for its successful re-tender of their Northern Health contract, their agile response in all aspects of cleaning and food meeting high standards, establishing methodologies and work
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Northern Health celebrates World Social Work Day 2023
Yesterday, Tuesday 21 March, was World Social Work Day and Northern Health’s social workers have marked the day with an event highlighting this year’s theme, “Respecting Diversity through Joint Social Action”. The afternoon event featured two presentations, each focusing on aspects of diversity. The first presentation showcased the support provided to our local community by
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New Mobile Device Management System
Northern Health is about to change its Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution, in line with Department of Health (DoH) security requirements. The DoH requires all Northern Health mobile devices, including applications and data on bring your own devices, to be managed by a new MDM system to ensure security on the health service’s network. Microsoft
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We Are Northern: This is the Palliative Care team
The Inpatient Palliative Care (PC) unit is located in Ward 3 at Northern Hospital Epping. It is a 16-bed unit with shared and private rooms for adult patients diagnosed with a health condition that cannot be cured. The nature of the patients admitted to the PC unit varies from patients at the end of their
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Safety is everyone’s responsibility
The Speaking Up For Safety (SUFS) program is a series of one-hour workshops designed to equip staff with the skills and confidence to escalate concerns around patient and/or staff safety with assertiveness and respect. The program aims to build and normalise a culture where staff feel comfortable to check on each other, and to welcome
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Get to know: Will Sherer
#WeAreNorthern Meet Will Sherer, Children’s Ward, Enrolled Nurse. Q: If you weren’t in your current role, what would you be doing? A: Stressing! Rewind a few years and I was going into a new role as a travel consultant. I changed direction and followed my passion by starting a nursing degree instead. One year later,