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Voluntary assisted dying: Our approach
7 June 2019
Victoria's voluntary assisted dying law comes into effect on 19 June 2019. It allows a person in the late stages of advanced disease to take medication prescribed by a doctor that will bring about their death at a time they choose – often at home supported by family and friends.
patients

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.
staff

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
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