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Spreading awareness of fall risk factors 18 November 2024 Throughout November, nursing, physiotherapy and occupational therapy staff across Sir Charles Gairdner and Osborne Park Hospitals (OPH) are championing the 2024 No Falls November campaign and spreading awareness about fall risk factors for older adults. OPH Falls Specialist Physiotherapists Jess Davies and Simone Tam and A/Senior Occupational Therapist Faye Baker are part of a collaborative team of allied health professionals and volunteers driving falls prevention programs across acute and community settings. Jess said evidence strongly demonstrated that falls occur in older adults as a result of multiple factors, including mobility, changes in blood pressure and cognitive impairment. “Due to the number of possible factors, it is essential that a collaborative multi-disciplinary approach is taken when addressing these risk factors and helping to promote healthy ageing in our patie... -
Volunteer aphasia group set to expand 13 September 2024 Volunteer services will be expanding at Osborne Park Hospital (OPH) next month, with past aphasia patients meeting with current patients from our Stroke Rehabilitation ward to share their experiences to assist others with their recovery. The volunteers are part of iDecide, an aphasia-based volunteer Consumer Advisory Group formed at OPH in 2021 under the guidance of the OPH Speech Pathology Department. Aphasia is a condition that occurs as a result of damage to the language centre of the brain with one in three people experiencing aphasia after a stroke. It can affect a person's ability to communicate, including speech, understanding, reading and writing; it does not affect intelligence. iDecide group member and former stroke patient Jamie said he was excited at the prospect of expanding the group's services to meet with other patients with aphasia. “We know what they are going thr... -
New outpatient Prehabilitation service 26 August 2024 A new Prehabilitation service has been launched for patients receiving treatment at Sir Charles Gairdner and Osborne Park Hospitals with the aim to improve patients physical, nutritional, and psychological health prior to complex surgery or stem cell transplant. The Prehabilitation service is a pre-surgical multidisciplinary team providing physiotherapy, dietetics, and clinical psychology for outpatients. Prehabilitation benefits include optimised physical and psychological readiness for surgery, reduced length of hospital stay, improved post-surgical functioning for the patient and more. Find out more (external site). -
Electronic prescribing implementation 12 June 2024 The North Metropolitan Health Service (NMHS) is in the process of implementing electronic prescriptions (external site) in the Outpatient Clinics at Sir Charles Gairdner (SCGH) and Osborne Park Hospitals (OPH). This project will align the SCGOPH care group with the other health service providers in Western Australia, providing patients with access to electronic prescriptions across the state. Instead of receiving a paper prescription, patients can instead opt to receive their prescription via SMS or email. This can then be filled at their local pharmacy. Please note, SCGH and OPH onsite Outpatient Pharmacies are currently unable to receive electronic prescriptions and must still be provided with normal paper prescriptions at present. Patients can also speak to their local community pharmacist about registering for an Active Script List (ASL) which allows their scripts to be stored in a c... -
Congratulations to our nursing award winners 13 May 2024 We are proud to announce Fiona Irwin and Leo Wu as our 2024 Rotary Nurse of the Year award winners for Sir Charles Gairdner (SCGH) and Osborne Park Hospitals (OPH). Congratulations also to OPH clinical nursing facilitator Miriam Sprange on winning the Lorraine Johnson Preceptor Award this week. The annual events were held this week as part of our International Nurses Day celebrations. The Rotary Nurse of the Year awards recognise nurses who have demonstrated innovation and excellence in health care by advancing the profession, building partnerships and making a difference in their area of practice. Nominations were accepted from both the public and staff across three categories: graduate nursing, clinical practice and excellence in leadership with the overall winner selected from the category winners. Fiona was nominated for her willingness to help other staff and dedication to providing...
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30/07/2025