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Loneliness Awareness Week, held from 3 to 9 August, highlighted the importance of creating meaningful opportunities for social connection. The 2026 campaign theme, Connection grows in the spaces and opportunities we intentionally create for one another, provides a useful prompt for aged care service...
Older people are at increased risk of severe illness and complications from respiratory infections. Residential aged care services, community aged care providers and general practices can support residents, clients and patients to make informed decisions about influenza, COVID-19 and RSV vaccination...
Located at 29 Dixon Drive, Pimpama, the Centre was officially opened on Thursday 27 August by The Hon Emma McBride MP, Assistant Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention and Assistant Minister for Rural and Regional Health, who was joined by Senator the Hon Murray Watt and Mr Rowan Holzberg...
Declining immunisation rates on the Gold Coast are putting our most vulnerable at higher risk of severe infection and hospitalisation. This issue is impacting immunisation rates for children, adolescences and older people. Compared to in previous years, fewer people have received their annual influe...
Dr Serge Macanovic (Serge) fled his homeland during the siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian War as a child – and has settled on the northern Gold Coast after perseverance and a commitment to becoming well educated saw him study in the halls of Cambridge. Away from medicine, he’s mastered feats in n...
Ahead of a new Medicare Mental Health Centre opening at Pimpama on the northern Gold Coast, members of the public can visit Community Access Points locally and connect in with relevant local mental health services. Both immediate help and non-urgent assistance is available if you, or a person you kn...
Gold Coast Primary Health Network (GCPHN) is proud to recognise and celebrate National NAIDOC Week, held annually across Australia in the first week of July. Our vision for reconciliation is that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have equal access to high quality primary health care and ...
Resources for Gold Coast GPs: Bowel Cancer Awareness Month Have you seen our Bowel Cancer Screening clinical audit materials? These aim for GPs to outline the key components of the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP), focusing on issuing AAM Kits. Includes a total of 11 CPD points, appro...
Symptoms Symptoms usually start suddenly and can get worse over time. Early symptoms include: fever severe headache muscle pains weakness sore throat. This is followed by: vomiting diarrhoea abdominal pain rash. Later stages can involve bleeding, including: blood in vomit and stools bleeding from th...
This year’s Symposium – an annual event brought together by GCPHN – was one to remember. Speakers from organisations such as Gold Coast Health, ChemoPro Aged Care, Queensland Ambulance Service, the Residential Aged Care Facility Support Service, Australian Frailty Network and Australian Digita...
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