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]

BreastScreen Mackay is celebrating 25 years of providing life-saving checks for women in the Mackay Hospital and Health Service (Mackay HHS).  Mackay HHS Chief Executive Lisa Davies Jones said the service had grown significantly since opening in 1996 and had helped more than 40,000 women be aware of their breast health.  “In BreastScreen’s first year… [Read More]

Dear Clermont community members, Further to my correspondence of Friday 4 June 2021, I am writing to provide an update on the progress of the integrated medical model for Clermont. As previously advised, over the past several months, the Mackay Hospital and Health Service (HHS) has been meeting regularly with other local health care providers… [Read More]