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EMHS Community Consultation Session 16 October 2019 Have your say about health services in your local area. We are pleased to announce the EMHS Board and Executive will be hosting a community consultation session in Armadale in November. This forum is an opportunity to provide direct feedback and ask questions on how public health care services are delivered in the local community. The event will consist of two breakout sessions with open discussion between Board, Executive and members of the community focusing on five topics: Communication – between patients, families, staff and community partners. Innovation and technology – ideas to provide person-centred outcome-focused care including ideas to bring technology into patient care. Care coordination – coordination of care, including patient journey through the hospital including discharge, transitioning from hospital to home and continuity of care. Comm... -
Royal Perth Hospital Endoscopy Preadmission Nurse Clinic: WA Health Excellence Award Finalist 14 October 2019 The Royal Perth Hospital Endoscopy Preadmission Nurse Clinic (Gastroenterology and Hepatology) was recently selected as a finalist in the 2019 WA Health Excellence Awards. The team were recognised for their patient-centred model of care that is helping to reduce wait times for members of our community awaiting endoscopy procedures. This is one of 11 special projects that demonstrates the EMHS values of excellence and collaboration and embody our service delivery principle of intellectual curiosity. Read about how they are helping us to improve the way we deliver our services as part of our commitment to the EMHS vision of healthy people, amazing care. The clinic was developed to improve access to timely care by reducing wait times for endoscopy procedures, and minimising the impact that cancellations on the day of surgery are having on our patients and staff. The program is a nurse le... -
Welcome Professor Paul Parizel 01 October 2019 We recently welcomed globally lauded radiologist Professor Paul Parizel to East Metropolitan Health Service. Professor Parizel has been appointed as the David Hartley Chair of Radiology and will be based at Royal Perth Hospital (RPH). His appointment follows that of the Michael Lawrence-Brown Chair of Vascular Surgery, Professor Toby Richards, who is based at Fiona Stanley Hospital (FSH), and started late last year. Both Professor Parizel and Professor Richards will perform academic duties at the University of Western Australia and clinical duties at RPH and FSH respectively. Their Chair positions have been made possible due to the royalties from an innovation developed at RPH 20 years ago by Professor Michael Lawrence-Brown, a Vascular Surgeon, and Mr David Hartley, an imaging radiographer. Together, they developed the Endovascular Stentgraft that changed the way surgeons treat dis... -
Dr Stephen MacDonald awarded a prestigious Churchill Fellowship 27 September 2019 Congratulations to Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) Emergency Physician, Dr Stephen MacDonald, on being one of 115 Australians to be awarded a prestigious Churchill Fellowship. The 2019 Fellowships offer recipients a life-changing opportunity to meet and work with global leaders of influence to gain and exchange knowledge as well as experience for the betterment of themselves, their industry, community and Australia. “Churchill Fellowships recognise people with a passion and drive, providing an unrivalled opportunity and freedom for people to experience world’s best practice on issues that matter to Australian communities,” CEO of the Churchill Trust, Mr Adam Davey, said. Stephen will use the Fellowship to further his knowledge in sepsis with the aim of developing a best practice approach to its diagnosis and management across Australia. He will travel to the UK, Ireland, USA... -
New Leukemia treatment dubbed 'a magic bullet' 25 September 2019 Researchers from RPH’s Haematology department have helped uncover a new drug that can contain/treat a type of aggressive Leukemia. The immunotherapy is so effective they've dubbed it "the magic bullet". The magic bullet includes two pills taken every day and a small injection of chemotherapy seven days a month. It's a form of immunotherapy that works by targeting mutant proteins in the blood. Howard Kurth is the first patient in Australia to undergo the treatment. He was diagnosed with the cancer, called Acute Myeloid Leukaemia, two years ago. He says he was given just days to live. Mr Kurth’s health was so bad he wasn't eligible for typical chemotherapy. But thanks to the new treatment he's just celebrated his 80th birthday. Haematology’s Dr Peter Tan says they are now using the results to personalise treatments. "What we're trying to find are certain markers to person...
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16/08/2023