Mackay Hospital and Health Service is recruiting participants to join a national clinical trial for an investigational vaccine for Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). The Mackay Institute of Research and Innovation (MIRI) is one of 33 trial sites around Australia seeking participants for a study assessing the co-administration of the annual flu vaccine with the investigational… [Read More]

The COVID-19 pandemic has set Mackay Public Health Unit Senior Environmental Health Officer AnneMarie Farrelly on a new career trajectory. AnneMarie has won a Health Heroes Scholarship to study a Master of Epidemiology at the University of Queensland. Epidemiology is the study of how often diseases occur in different groups of people and why. Epidemiological… [Read More]

I would like to reassure you that Mackay Hospital and Health Service is committed to establishing a sustainable medical model to support hospital patients and aged care residents in Clermont. However, this cannot be at any cost. We must make judicious use of public money and could not agree to the proposal by Clermont4Doctors for… [Read More]

Collinsville already feels like home to Dr Cathy Reto. Cathy joined the team at the MPHS in January this year, filling a vacancy for a much needed second doctor to work at the hospital, in aged care and in general practice. Before coming to Collinsville she was the Medical Superintendent at Hughenden Hospital and the… [Read More]

Supporting mums with COVID-19 to birth their babies is now all in a day’s work for Mackay Base Hospital Registered Midwife Kate Aitchison. Kate said she had now cared for quite a few positive mums during birth and on the ward. “Fortunately, the mothers I have looked after have been feeling pretty well and have… [Read More]