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ICU patient’s dream of marriage realised

1 June 2019

The Alfred’s ICU staff were honoured to help fulfil patient Toni Carroll’s dream of getting married to her partner and father of her two children, Jesse Welsh.

intensive care

staff

Stroke scare pushes patient to quit smoking

31 May 2019

A life-threatening stroke shook John Cole into taking serious steps to improve his health – most notably he stopped smoking.

staff

stroke

New hope for cancer patients

30 May 2019

Doctors at The Alfred were the only Australian researchers involved in an international randomised trial published in The Lancet that has shown patients live significantly longer when stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) is used to target all of their tumours.

cancer

Patient to volunteer, companionship and conversation

20 May 2019

Volunteer Kate Pointon knows what it’s like to be a patient on the Neurosurgery ward at The Alfred – it’s where she spent three months last year recovering from a brain aneurysm. Now, she’s one of the first “Host Volunteers”, providing patients on the Neurosurgery and Trauma wards with companionship and conversation.

volunteers

Thanking our nurses

12 May 2019

As we recognise International Nurses Day on Sunday 12th (the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth) we celebrate all of our nurses at Alfred Health and the vital role they play in delivering quality healthcare to our communities.

nursing education

staff

Road to Recovery is clear for burns team

9 May 2019

The Alfred burns team has launched a new web resource designed to help regional clinicians care for patients with severe burns, once they return home.

burns

Honouring wartime Alfred nurses

29 April 2019

The Alfred Hospital Nurses League took part in the march to the Shrine of Remembrance on ANZAC Day 2019.

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Easter break warning from road trauma survivor

17 April 2019

Graham Arkle was driving an eight-tonne army vehicle to an exhibition in March when a b-double crashed into the back of him on the Hume Freeway near Glenrowan.

emergency & trauma

Take care while camping this Easter

17 April 2019

Burns specialists at The Alfred are urging people to take care while camping this long weekend, after new figures show the Easter period has the highest incidence of flame burns compared to any other time of year.

burns

Targeting tumours from the inside and out

15 April 2019

Alfred Health Radiation Oncology experts have demonstrated the benefit of combining two forms of radiation treatment to target prostate cancer.

cancer

radiation therapy

research & innovation