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Content last updated 29/04/2025

Protecting the community starts with immunisation

Broadbeach GP and Chair of the Gold Coast Primary Health Network (GCPHN), Dr Ka-Kiu Cheung, says World Immunisation Week from 24-30 April 2025 is the ideal time for young families to take advantage of the many free vaccines available ahead of winter. “There’s been a slowdown of immunisation upta...

Finding joy, friendship and fitness in retirement

Des and Wendy striking the right chord in retirement For 79-year-old Des Weatherhog, life in retirement is all about embracing new adventures, staying active, and making meaningful connections.  “I lost my wife, Barb, to breast cancer 16 years ago, which really slowed down my motivation for a lot...

RSV in adults: Ella’s story – more than just a cold

My husband Matt and I came home after Christmas holidays in New Zealand, and he brought back what I thought was man flu.  Within a week of coming back he was putting it on thick; to me they seemed like cold symptoms, and then he bounced back quickly. Then a couple of days later it […]

Training program helps keep practice nurses on point with immunisations

The Gold Coast Primary Health Network (GCPHN) recently hosted a one-day course to enable a group of practice nurses enhance their immunisation skills. Held in late November, the course, facilitated by Vaxworks Health Services and adapted from Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) Immunisation Tr...

Bond University Allied Health (BUnyAH) program turns life around for Gold Coast muso

73-year-old John McCartney* credits exercise program with new lease on life. Gold Coast 73-year-old John McCartney is an Australian music enigma. After picking up the guitar in his early teens, he spent decades toiling in rock bands across the country, more than paying his dues to his craft and the ...

Gold Coast Primary Health Network urges immunisations as part of regular GP visits

Date released: Friday 12 July 2024 Gold Coasters are being urged to keep up to date with their COVID-19 boosters and be better protected through the rest of winter by immunising against the flu. With 2666 cases recorded in Queensland in the last week of June, it’s suggested that everyone makes an ...