Whitsunday women are urged to take advantage of BreastScreen Queensland’s free mobile screening service during its visit to Proserpine and Cannonvale. The mobile service is currently at Proserpine Hospital until July 1, with very limited availability remaining, providing its mammogram screening service. Cannonvale women can expect to see the mobile service at the Whitsunday Plaza… [Read More]

Mackay Hospital and Health Service has welcomed experienced health professional Susan Gannon as its new Chief Executive. Ms Gannon comes to Mackay from Hobart where she was Chief Executive Hospitals at Tasmanian Health Services for three years and the Executive Director Operations for three years. Prior to this she was the State-wide Executive Director of… [Read More]

Interim Chief Executive Dr Charles Pain I would like to provide an update on the Mackay Base Hospital Emergency Department performance based on the latest data. Once again 100% of people who arrive by ambulance with a life-threatening illness or injury were seen on time. In the March quarter we saw 13,142 patients which is… [Read More]

From a childhood spent on a sugar cane farm in Sarina to performing complex life-saving breast cancer surgery, it’s been almost 30 years since Dr Adrian Wescott entered Mackay Base Hospital as a newly qualified doctor. The general surgeon is now entering the next phase of his career after being appointed to the top position… [Read More]

The Mackay Hospital and Health Service (HHS) is pleased to welcome two new senior obstetrics and gynaecology specialists to the team at the Mackay Base Hospital Womens Health Unit. Mackay HHS Acting Chief Executive Charles Pain said both Dr Leigh Grant and Dr Barton Matshe were highly qualified specialists. “We are very pleased to welcome… [Read More]