Chaotic capers at Canberra Hospital. Shame they cost a life
There’s an ABC story up about the inquest into the death of Suki Thurairajah who went to Canberra Hospital for dialysis and didn’t make it out alive. First year registrar Clare Thomsett put an air tube...
View ArticleKaty gets satisfaction
Chief Minister Gallagher is drawing attention to the ACT Healthcare Patient Satisfaction Survey: “The latest satisfaction survey shows that the ACT does have a health care system that the Canberra...
View ArticlePaths for Yamba Drive
They completed this link just before xmas. It goes under Melrose and links the footbridge (that they proposed not replacing!) with path that I assume links up further on. Congrats Gasman. From the...
View ArticleFirefighters investigating smell of gas at TCH
Firefighters are currently investing a smell of gas on level two at The Canberra Hospital. ACT Fire & Rescue has evacuated the building as a precaution. UPDATE – 12.40pm Three fire pumpers, the...
View Article$34 million injection to Canberra Hospital
The ACT government will invest an additional $34 million into elective surgeries with hopes of halving the wait list within a year, according to The Canberra Times. The funding will include $250,000...
View ArticleWorld Record Attempt at the Canberra Hospital
Hello all, I would like to tell you about a fun fundraiser that is occurring on 19th, 20th and 21st of August in the foyer of the the Canberra Hospital starting at 8am and finishing on the Thursday at...
View ArticleNew Canberra Region Cancer Centre opens
Canberrans and residents from the surrounding region undergoing specialised cancer treatment will now benefit from a streamlined cancer centre, based at the Canberra Hospital, that will combine several...
View ArticleSuperstructure for the Super Sized
I took part in a panel discussion Friday on Channel 9 Mornings where one of the topics that provoked a strong reaction was the decision by Canberra Hospital to include reinforced ceilings strong...
View ArticleCanberra Hospital running over optimal capacity
This is not exactly news to anyone who either works in the public health system in Canberra, or utilises it as a patient, but this is a fairly well-presented and succinct summary via ABC News this...
View ArticleWitnesses sought to disturbance outside Canberra Hospital
ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to a disturbance that occurred outside the Canberra Hospital this morning (Monday, 20 October). About 11.15am, police responded to reports of around six people...
View ArticleFamily Christmas Fair
[ 29 November 2014 at 10:00 am; ] Costco’s Family Christmas Fair at Majura Park is being held this Saturday to support the NICU at Canberra Hospital. Fun for the whole family, the Christmas Fair will...
View ArticleCanberra Hospital emergency department to receive more beds
Major expansion works to be undertaken at the Canberra Hospital emergency department will refurbish the busy frontline of the health system and deliver more beds while improving emergency services,...
View ArticleExcuse me, ACT Health. I would like to choose where I birth, thanks.
By now we are all aware of the proposal by ACT Health that pregnant women in the ACT should be allocated their birthing hospital depending on their postcode – Calvary for the North, TCH for the South....
View ArticleAbode Hotels and Canberra Hospital Foundation join forces to help families
Chief Minister Andrew Barr and Minister for Health Simon Corbell will attend a partnership event at Abode Woden today to celebrate the partnership between Abode Hotels and the Canberra Hospital...
View ArticlePatient undergoing Ebola testing at Canberra Hospital
A medical professional who recently returned from West Africa has been admitted to Canberra Hospital’s isolation ward as a precautionary measure, ACT Health has confirmed. Following the development of...
View ArticleParking fines at hospitals – if only all visitors had someone like Laura
Hearts were warmed around the world on Monday when a post from popular Facebook page Canberra Mums went viral. A mum had been in hospital with her nine-week-old baby and after being discharged she...
View ArticleHospital staff woes ‘diabolical’: Hanson
Shadow Minister for Health and Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Hanson has issued a statement describing staffing issues in the Intensive Care Unit at the Canberra Hospital as “diabolical” and linking...
View ArticleElective surgery ‘blitz’ to address long waits
The ACT Government has announced an elective surgery “blitz” in the first half of 2016 that will see the city’s surgeons perform an extra 1000 procedures in a bid to reduce the number of long-wait...
View ArticleObstacle event a disgrace, dangerous: participants
Participants in an obstacle course event at Bungendore over the weekend have labelled the event as “disappointing”, “dangerous” and “a disgrace” and set up an online petition calling on the organisers...
View ArticleDriver charged over serious bus crash near Goulburn last November
A man has been charged following investigations into a bus crash that left three people with serious injuries in the Southern Tablelands last year. Shortly after 10am on Saturday 21 November, a bus...
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