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Experiencing life from your living room during the coronavirus pandemic doesn't have to be boring. Here are some activities you may not have realised you could still do from home.
1. Take a virtual tour of an art gallery or museum…
With pledges to walk from Bondi to Manly, take up yoga, participate in the Stadium Stomp and read before going to bed, the nurses from St George Hospital’s Cancer Care Centre are embracing a wellbeing challenge, as a part of a year-long…
Staff from the NSW Organ & Tissue Donation Service (OTDS) have so far raised almost $4,000 for the Leukaemia Foundation by sponsoring four of their brave colleagues to participate in the World’s Greatest Shave.
Shavers, Kendall Miles,…
It was a challenging start to the year with the devastating impacts of the bushfires. Our district showed an enormous amount of altruism during this emergency, with deployed staff providing expert healthcare and support to bushfire-affected…
National Close the Gap Day, recognised on 19 March, 2020, calls on all Australians to work together to take action in improving the health and wellbeing of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.…
The date only comes around once every four years, but it was a busy day for maternity staff across the district on Saturday 29 February with 17 babies leaping into the world on ‘leap day’.
Rory Morley was the first…
If you are overwhelmed by the constant talk of climate change and need some handy tips on what part you can play in reducing our district's carbon footprint, Dr Kate Charlesworth, SESLHD's Environmental Sustainability Lead, has produced a flyer…
International Women’s Day was celebrated in style at the Royal Hospital for Women on Monday 9 March, 2020. Staff rallied together to hear from four of their outstanding colleagues at an all-female panel event steered by Helen…
Stephanie Pizanis (pictured), aged 23, is curled up on the sofa of her family’s home in Kingsford, counting down the days until she finishes chemotherapy at the Royal Hospital for Women.
The co-…
A landmark study on the best treatment for patients suffering from a collapsed lung, or pneumothorax, has found that the traditional ‘interventional approach’ of treating the condition with a chest tube is not always in the patient’s best…