It was a full house in today’s Grand Rounds session, which was also the first for the year. More than 70 clinicians gathered to hear from Emergency Staff Specialist Dr Neale Thornton and Surgical Principal House Officer Dr Ashley Jenkin on the bariatric patient and a case with complications from gastric banding. With the national… [Read More]

Mackay Hospital and Health Service has welcomed an additional 51 registered nurses to its workforce this week. Nursing Director Education and Research Dr Christopher Churchouse said the health service was delighted to offer an increased number of places, up from 48 in 2016. “We are excited to have an increased amount of nurses that have… [Read More]

John Cavanagh has taken his first steps with a new prosthetic limb since losing his left leg to vascular problems in June. Mr Cavanagh has been seeing Mackay Base Hospital Senior Physiotherapist John Finocchi and Prosthetist Peter Osborne since reaching the end of his inpatient stay. “They were pretty well on the ball after the… [Read More]

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A single rose is delivered to the Specialist Outpatients Department at Mackay Base Hospital every month; a thank-you from a cancer survivor. The former patient has been making the floral tribute for the past year and a half as her way of reminding staff she has not forgotten the difference their care has made. Sadly… [Read More]