News

22 October 2024

QTMHC honoured with prestigious statewide award

The Queensland Transcultural Mental Health Centre (QTMHC) has taken out a top prize in the 2024 Mental Health Week Achievement Awards.

22 October 2024

Research momentum for Child and Youth Mental Health Service

Metro South staff are proudly preparing to exhibit their work at the International Conference for Mental Health Nursing with a record number of abstracts accepted.

22 October 2024

IPMS team moves the needle on infection prevention

Spreading knowledge and preventing infection was the trending topic at QEII this month, where the Infection Prevention and Management Service (IPMS) team hosted an event to remember for International Infection Prevention Week (13-19 October).

18 October 2024

Redland Hospital endoscopy report released

Queensland Health has released the Executive Summary and Recommendations from the report on the Part 9 health service investigation which focused on the standard of endoscopies performed by two doctors at Redland Hospital between 2008 and 2018.

18 October 2024

Celebrating 20 years of the Deafness and Mental Health Service

The Deafness and Mental Health Statewide Consultation and Liaison Service began in 2004, and Metro South’s A/Prof Frances Dark has been there since day one.

18 October 2024

A legacy of dedication: Sharon Smerdon retires after more than 40 years at PA Hospital

Assistant Director of Nursing in the Division of Surgery at PA Hospital, Sharon Smerdon has retired after more than 40 years of extraordinary service.

16 October 2024

2Ns first 100 day birthday

Every now and again, if you’re lucky, life brings you moments that stay with you for a long time. Meeting the parents of little Rangatira-Elias Taki in Logan’s Neonatal Unit 2N was one of those moments.

15 October 2024

Breaking down barriers to improve health literacy

Toni Mitchell tells us how she developed her Health Literacy to be a better advocate for her son Joshy.

15 October 2024

A textbook example of Head and Neck Cancer care

Professor Liz Ward, Director of the Centre for Functioning and Health Research, along with colleagues from both Metro South and the international health community are taking the multidisciplinary approach of Head and Neck Cancer care to the next