2023
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Sea of rainbow at Pride March
It was a sea of rainbow and pride in St Kilda on Sunday as part of the Midsumma Festival Pride March. The iconic, colourful march is a proud and loud celebration of the LGBTIQA+ community, culture and arts, and commemorates solidarity in gender and sexual diversity. The march began at 11 am at the Ian
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Northern Health welcomes 2023 nursing and midwifery graduates
This week, Northern Health welcomed its largest ever graduate nurse and midwife cohort to date – 77 fresh faces, ready to dive into their healthcare careers this year. Nursing and midwifery education unit graduate program co-ordinator, Kate Duggan said it’s fantastic to see fresh faces and a sense of nervous excitement amongst the group. “We
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Exploring new pathways in 2023
The Transformation Unit is excited to run the HRO Explorer program again in 2023. Applications are open to staff wanting to diversify their career at Northern Health. The purpose of the Explorer program is to provide Northern Health staff with opportunities to widen their skillsets and empower them to confidently pursue alternative internal career paths.
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Get to know: Simone Motton
For today’s ‘get to know your’ profile, we catch up with Simone Motton, Director of Allied Health. Simone joined the health service in 2015 as an Occupational Therapy Clinical Leader, and also worked as the Associate Director of Occupational Therapy and Hand Therapy, before she was appointed to her new role in December last year.
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Driving fundraising with a purpose
After several successful Play for Purpose raffles in 2022, Northern Health Foundation is once again taking part in this fundraising initiative. Play for Purpose is an online charitable raffle helping Australian charities fundraise. By purchasing a ticket, you will be supporting Northern Health Foundation in its vision of building a healthier community for our staff
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A more environmentally friendly health service
Northern Health is becoming more environmentally friendly, as part of the Victorian Government’s ban of the sale and supply of single-use plastics. From today, 1 February, the following items can no longer be purchased or supplied: drinking straws, cutlery (including knives, forks, spoons, chopsticks, sporks, splades, and food picks) plates drink stirrers cotton bud sticks
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2023 is the Year of Together
At the beginning of 2023, we asked a cross section of our Executive team to tell us what they wished for in 2023. Anthony Gust, Executive Director, Digital Health, predicted 2023 to be the “year of together – together we will continue to look after our patients and also each other.” With this in mind,
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2023 is the year of the EMR go live!
Northern Health’s Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is due to go live on 4 September 2023! In approximately eight months, staff in the emergency department, any inpatient setting, and ambulatory (maternity) will be transitioning from paper-based documentation to ‘paper-light’ documentation, primarily using workstations on wheels (WOWs) to document patient clinical data into the EMR. From using