Greg Torkington is your typical Aussier battler. The former coal miner and Collinsville resident has just been through the toughest health journey of his life but that hasn’t slowed him down. In April this year he was chasing his dog, Rip, around the yard when he kicked his toe on a concrete slab. When things… [Read More]

Mackay, Isaac and Whitsunday residents are being urged to make backyard and camp fire safety a priority as the cooler weather sets in and school holidays approach. In the past month, four people have been treated at Mackay Hospital and Health Service Emergency Departments for injuries and burns sustained by either backyard or camp fires…. [Read More]

As Helen Chapman holds up a porcelain bedpan, she reflects on the many miles she’s travelled and the stories she’s told over her 40-year nursing career.  Leaving her hometown of Tamworth in 1980, Helen started her nurse training at St Vincent’s Hospital in Darlinghurst.  The move to Sydney was quite an eye opener for the… [Read More]

Clinical Nurse Consultant for Queensland Bowel Cancer Screening Program Tania Mattinson is urging people not to neglect taking advantage of free bowel screening during COVD-19. June is Bowel Cancer Awareness month and Ms Mattinson said it is an important time to encourage people to complete the free National Bowel Screening Program test.  “People can be… [Read More]

Sarina nurse Susanne Murray has been recognised for her 50-year career during a time when the world needs her profession the most.  Her achievement comes amid the COVID-19 pandemic, while it has also fallen during the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. Honoured with the Nurse Specialty award at the recent Mackay Hospital… [Read More]