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14 July 2026
Health service commits to keeping children safe
Creating a safe environment for children and young people is more than a legal obligation – it is part of who we are as healthcare professionals.
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13 July 2026
Four-decade career helps drive digital change
With a nursing and midwifery career spanning 47 years across the region, Seana Clarke is now very comfortable being in the driver’s seat of digital change.
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19 May 2026
Award winner driven by compassion and lived experience
For Samantha Bullman, her patients are like family. Ironically, it was her own mother’s 30-year battle with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) which inspired the clinical nurse consultant to take on a role in gastroenterology at Mackay Base Hospital
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20 April 2026
Lived experience shapes reality of rural medical conference
A seventh-generation cattle farmer turned rural doctor, Dr Anneliese Slack brings a deeply personal understanding of life in the bush to her work.
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27 March 2026
Locals join global trial to test new drug for rare lung disease
Three Mackay Hospital and Health Service (HHS) patients are part of a worldwide clinical trial to test a new drug for a rare and often fatal lung disease.
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13 March 2026
Five decades of passionate service a privilege for Pauline
There will be some time for reflection, tears and team farewells today at the Sarina Hospital as Pauline Maude takes her final walk through the wards as the director of nursing.
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10 March 2026
Husband's 20-year journey the inspiration for renal career
For Katrina Linthwaite, kidney disease has shaped much of her adult married life.
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10 March 2026
Trish drives access to care which saves rural lives
Trish Donnelly is the woman behind the wheel of a mobile service that saves other women’s lives.
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05 March 2026
Appointment key to building sustainable workforce
Mackay Hospital and Health Service (HHS) Director of Child and Adolescent Health Dr Stephan Reid has been appointed to the role of Clinical Dean at James Cook University.
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18 February 2026
Workforce the greatest reward and challenge in new role
From cyclones and multi-trauma emergencies to maternity care and end-of-life medicine, rural healthcare demands doctors who are ready for anything. Few understand that reality better than Dr Hannah Trimble, whose career across Far North and regional
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14 October 2025
Old Sarina Hospital to provide transitional care
Works to repurpose the old Sarina Hospital into a dedicated transitional healthcare service are now underway at 1 Hospital Street, and $10.4 million has been allocated to the task.