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Professor Mark Ferson, Director of the SESLHD Public Health Unit (PHU) since its establishment in 1990, has been recognised with a special Australia Day award from the Mayor of Randwick.
Mayor Councillor Danny Said described Professor…
The Royal Hospital for Women is a hospital of many firsts and this year is no exception with dedicated staff preparing to launch a Calmbirth ‘refresher’ program for expectant couples.
Offered at The Royal since 2011, Calmbirth is a widely…
The mortuary viewing room used by Prince of Wales Hospital and Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick has undergone a refurbishment, creating a comfortable space for loved ones to say goodbye.
The social work departments from…
St George Hospital nurse Kimberley O’Connor says learning she had breast cancer has brought her many new insights as a patient – including getting to know McGrath breast care nurse Kim Wright.
While scrubbing off her spray tan a…
The dedicated SESLHD staff who screen all overseas passenger and crew arrivals – to help contain the global spread of COVID-19 – will mark one year of performing this essential work at Sydney International Airport next week.
The…
The Royal Hospital for Women is helping patients to relax with a striking, wall-sized mural of one of Sydney’s favourite ocean swimming pools.
The photograph – taken by photographer Dallas Kilponen – is of a lone swimmer at Mahon…
Sydneysiders from all walks of life have been stood down from jobs or faced redundancy due to the COVID-19 pandemic – and some have joined our ranks screening entrants to our hospitals and facilities.
At St George Hospital,…
NAIDOC Week 2020 was celebrated at a host of events throughout SESLHD with this year’s theme in mind: Always Was, Always Will Be, which speaks to the long history of Aboriginal cultures, over 65,000 years – the longest living…
The Sydney-based television series Old People’s Home For 4 Year Olds has won a coveted Emmy Award. Dr Stephanie Ward, from Prince of Wales Hospital, is the expert geriatrician featured in the series, which aims to demonstrate…
The Shisha No Thanks project team has taken home a winning prize in the 2020 Premier's Multicultural Communications Awards, in the CommBank Business Campaign of the Year category. The awards are an annual event and recognise excellence in the…