Mackay Hospital and Health Service will welcome experienced health professional Lisa Davies Jones as its new Chief Executive. Ms Davies Jones comes from a secondment in the Department of Health where she has led a team in establishing the new Office of Rural and Remote Health to provide a central point of contact in the… [Read More]

Mackay Base Hospital is the first regional Queensland hospital to benefit from the latest in knee replacement technology, enhancing the recovery and long-term outcomes for patients. The NAVIO Surgical System is a handheld robotic-assisted surgical device designed to guide orthopaedic surgeons during knee replacements and is currently only in use at three Queensland metropolitan hospitals…. [Read More]

A decision to change careers led Dr Julian Luna and Dr Jennifer Luna to find love in medicine and together. While medicine interested the husband-wife doctor duo, it wasn’t their first career choice. Jennifer started out as a sonographer and Julian a firefighter. Soon they would discover the medical limitations in their roles would be… [Read More]

Mackay’s Public Health Unit has been recognised for their outstanding response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The team received the Pandemic Response Award in the Mackay Hospital and Health Service’s annual staff reward and recognition event. Chief Executive Jo Whitehead said Director Brigid Fenech and her team had worked tirelessly providing specialist advice and investigations to… [Read More]

Growing up as an Australian South Sea Islander woman in Mackay, Sharelle Johnson never dreamed she would become a nurse but always wanted to help people. After 40 years as an Enrolled Nurse (EN), Sharelle is finally hanging up her hat and retiring from her job at Mackay Base Hospital.  “In those days after school… [Read More]