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Hitting those green goals 14 March 2024 In line with its ongoing commitment to sustainability, EMHS has become the first public health service to implement the use of biodegradable non-sterile examination gloves. -
Inaugural consumer meeting for Byford Health Hub 13 March 2024 As a key EMHS project, the Byford Health Hub is being positioned as a game-changer designed to bring health and social care closer to home. -
Red carpet rolled out for Values in Action award ceremony 12 March 2024 The red carpet was rolled out last Tuesday night to recognise some of the outstanding staff East Metropolitan Health Service (EMHS) gets to call its own. -
ED staff collaborate on inter-hospital fracture care research 11 March 2024 As part of a recent initiative to refine emergency department (ED) fracture treatment practices, East Metropolitan Health Service (EMHS) staff have been actively engaged in a collaborative research project involving seven metropolitan EDs -
EMHS has opened Western Australia’s first gender diversity service (GDS) for transitioning adults 14 August 2023 EMHS has opened Western Australia’s first gender diversity service (GDS) for transitioning adults. The multi-disciplinary service provides initial assessment and/or hormone therapy for individuals over the age of 18 years only. The service provides much needed help to an extremely vulnerable patient group. The GDS is staffed by a sexual health physician, endocrinologist, clinical psychologist, speech therapist, clinical nurse consultant and clerk. A psychiatrist has been recruited to the service and will join the team shortly. Although RPH had previously seen transitioning patients through its Sexual Health Clinic, the GDS was now providing a dedicated and formalised service that would be open to transitioning patients throughout Western Australia. The EMHS new service does not offer surgical procedures because gender reassignment surgery is not available in the public health syste...
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16/01/2025