With Take a Break for Cancer Day just around the corner, our staff are eagerly preparing to help raise funds for cancer services at Frankston and Rosebud Hospital. Chemotherapy Acting Nurse Unit Manager, Chantelle Pollard, said she was taking a break “for every patient whose diagnosis brings them to us.” “Cancer changes a …
This week is World Allergy Week, a global campaign to raise awareness of the impact of allergic diseases. This year’s topic, ‘the asthma and allergy connection’, highlights the co-existence of asthma and allergies in the upper airways. To learn more about this topic, we spoke with Acting Clinical Director Emergency Services, Jonathan Dowling. “This co-existence …
Bright, fun and crazy socks are being worn by healthcare workers across Australia and the world to show support to colleagues experiencing mental illness. Established by Peninsula Health cardiologist Dr Geoff Toogood, the #CrazySocks4Docs campaign aims to break down stigmas surrounding doctors and healthcare workers with poor mental health by fostering important conversations, story sharing …
Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death and illness in Australia. So, for World No Tobacco Day, we’re highlighting the clinical trial by Peninsula Health staff anaesthetist, Dr Ashley Webb, which involved adult smokers awaiting elective surgery at Frankston Hospital. The trial found that offering mailed nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and Quitline support was …
This blog was written by Chris Kirkpatrick, Health Promotion Practitioner at Peninsula Health Have you thought about how our health and the health of our family is connected to climate change? If you haven’t, you’re not alone. Most Victorians haven’t thought about this. In this blog we will focus on the link between our health …
During National Volunteer week, we held a luncheon in recognition and gratitude of our selfless volunteers. Our Executive Director of Nursing and Midwifery, Fiona Reed, said this year’s National Volunteer Week theme of ‘better together’ aptly described the collaborative efforts of the more than 700 volunteers who supported our health service. “The support from our …
A project to address the research-clinical practice gap in stroke rehabilitation has been awarded $2.9M by the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF). Awarded under The Clinical Researchers initiative to support health care professionals to undertake research that will improve clinical care and practice, the collaborative project, PROMOTE: A Cluster-Randomised Implementation Trial, led by Monash …
Today, Peninsula Health acknowledges International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT). It is an extremely significant day within the LGBTIQA+ community — and beyond — as it acknowledges when the World Health Organisation removed homosexuality from the Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems in 1990. At that point, homosexuality was no longer …
Frankston Hospital on the Mornington Peninsula is among the first in Australia to be using a world-first online screening program to detect perinatal depression and anxiety, thanks to a new partnership between Peninsula Health and the Centre of Perinatal Excellence (COPE), Australia’s peak body for reducing the impacts of perinatal anxiety and depression. COPE is …
With the predication of a big flu season ahead, we spoke with our Head of Infectious Diseases and Infection Prevention and Control Unit, Dr Marjoree Sehu, to delve deeper into to why it’s so important for people to get vaccinated against Influenza this flu season. “After being in lockdown for the best part of …
