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Hepatitis Awareness Week
10 Aug 2023

Staff across our District marked Hepatitis Awareness Week, embracing this year’s theme: “We’re not waiting”.

Hepatitis…

Katy Hunt
10 Aug 2023

Tell us what you do for SESLHD:
It is my job to make sure that ten steps to successful breastfeeding are integrated into the facility. This…

Volunteer, Audrey McCallum
09 Aug 2023

Audrey McCallum is the President for the Volunteers at Prince of Wales Hospital.

"I started volunteering 16 years ago as a ward visitor on the Aged Care wards.

Over the years, I’…

three staff members stand in the cardiac cath lab next to the CT machine
26 Jul 2023

Colleagues are quick to say that Senior Medical Radiation Practitioner Glenn Ison goes above and beyond when it comes to keeping staff safe at St George Hospital’s Cardiac Cath Lab. From sourcing the best quality radiation…

Surgery staff launching the new Sip Til Send project
20 Jul 2023

For more than a century, patients have been asked to fast before heading into surgery, a task that can be both stressful and uncomfortable.

For the first time, Prince of Wales Hospital…

Meet the winners of SESLHD’s Core Awards  
19 Jul 2023

Our extraordinary staff and exceptional teamwork were celebrated on Thursday, 22 June at the 2023 SESLHD Core Awards ceremony.

World-first endometriosis research
19 Jul 2023

Researchers at the Royal Hospital for Women have made a major breakthrough in the future diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis, 

In a world first, the team has…

Kirsty received a uterus transplant in January. Now, she’s pregnant
19 Jul 2023

The first woman to receive a uterus transplant in Australia has fallen pregnant just three months after undergoing the procedure in a major milestone for pioneering Sydney research, giving hope to women…

NAIDOC Week
19 Jul 2023

For Our Elders was the theme for NAIDOC Week this year, celebrated from 2 to 9 July. Across the District, staff and consumers came together with family and friends to honour the Elders of the past, learn from the Elders…

Archaeologists positioning ancient hearth stones
12 Jul 2023

8,000 year-old Aboriginal hearth stones have been returned to site at Prince of Wales Hospital, in a moving ceremony led by the La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council and Gujaga Foundation.

One of the most significant excavations in NSW…