Four-year-old Evie Kelly has given a thumbs up to the Get Ready! school readiness program after undergoing the eight-week program earlier this year. The free Whitsunday program helps prepare children and their parents for prep by giving the tools to help build language and early reading and writing skills. Evie’s mum, Kate Kelly, signed up… [Read More]

Growing a healthy future for our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children is the focus of this year’s Mackay Hospital and Health Service Closing the Gap Forum. The forum is a co-ordinated approach for healthcare and community service providers to achieve life expectancy parity for First Nations people by 2031. Mackay HHS Chief Executive Lisa… [Read More]

A new program providing education and awareness designed specifically to reduce rates of stillbirth across Australia has been launched at Mackay Hospital and Health Service. The Safer Baby Bundle program focuses on five crucial elements of antenatal care expectant mothers should follow to minimise the risk of late gestation stillbirth. These elements are smoking cessation… [Read More]

Cannonvale’s Jane Patterson is urging people not to ignore their free bowel cancer screening kit when it arrives in the mail. The 53-year-old had eight polyps – small growths that can potentially develop in to cancer– removed after completing her Faecal Occult Blood Test (FOBT) test sent in the mail by the National Bowel Cancer… [Read More]