June 2024
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Hands up for Hand Therapy Week 2024
This week, 3 – 9 June, we celebrate Hand Therapy Week! Hand therapy practitioners are either Occupational Therapists (OTs) or Physiotherapists, who specialise in assessing and treating upper limb injuries. At Northern Health’s Hand Therapy Department, our practitioners primarily focus on injuries of fingers, hands and forearms. Patients in the northern catchment who visit the Hand Therapy clinic often suffer from acute traumatic hand injuries, typically resulting from workplace accidents, sports injuries or incidents at home. Hand therapy clinicians enhance patient healing and facilitate a return to function by fabricating splints, offering rehabilitative exercise programs and providing scar management advice.…
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Apheresis service: Life saving treatment
During World War II, Dr. Edwin Cohn ingeniously adapted a cream separator machine to revolutionise medicine. His process separated whole blood into its vital components, saving lives on the battlefront; including those wounded during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Today, we call this process Apheresis, derived from the Greek word meaning “to remove or separate a part from the whole.” Since April this year, Northern Health Cancer Services offers Apheresis as a critical service. Led by Head of Clinical Hematology, Dr. Rachel Cooke, nursing staff at the Oncology and Medical Day Unit, located at Northern Hospital Epping, have been trained to…
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National Taiwan University Hospital Senior Executives visit NH
Last week, Northern Health was delighted to warmly welcome a delegation from the renowned National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH). The visit marked an important step in international collaboration aimed at enhancing healthcare delivery and integrating community medical resources. The delegation, comprising 10 distinguished senior executives from NTUH, visited Northern Health as part of their initiative to develop a new facility designed to integrate hospital and community medical resources. This project aims to significantly improve the quality of medical care and address the issue of outpatient crowding. During their visit, Northern Health had the pleasure of sharing our experiences and strengths,…