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Sign up for historical golf day

4 August 2017

The annual golf day that helped make Sandringham Hospital a reality will celebrate its 64th year on Monday 23 October.

Share your experience and help improve care

11 July 2017

Alfred Health is encouraging current and former patients, and family members, to improve care by joining the health service as a volunteer consumer advisor.

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Partnership to improve respectful culture

3 July 2017

Alfred Health’s stance on building a respectful culture and improving patient safety in surgery has been further strengthened under a new agreement with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS).

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Funding boost brings Day Procedure Centre closer to reality

16 May 2017

The Sandringham Hospital Day Procedure Centre Capital Appeal has almost reached its $2.5 million target thanks to a significant boost from the Victorian Government.

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Sandringham ED boosts paediatric specialists

9 May 2017

Sandringham Hospital has seen a significant spike in the number of children visiting the Emergency Department over the past year – but they will be in good hands thanks to the two new paediatric specialists who have joined the team.

Mindfulness app helps hospital workers find calm

3 April 2017

Hospital staff can now pause, unwind and refocus during their busy day thanks to a new mindfulness app developed by Alfred Health.

GPs armed with new guidelines to tackle STIs in the community

6 March 2017

Guidelines to assist general practitioners and sexual health specialists to detect, manage and treat sexually transmissible infections (STIs) have been updated to reflect new testing recently approved in Australia.

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A lunch by the bay

20 February 2017

Leading local business woman Patricia Ilhan will head an enlightening lunch to launch the 2017 Sandringham Hospital Appeal. 

Everyone has a story

10 February 2017

Alfred Health's new campaign uses patient experiences as a learning tool for patient care.

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Alfred Health staff receive Australia Day Honours

27 January 2017

Congratulations to two Alfred Health clinicians who were recognised in the Australia Day Honours List for 2017 for their dedication in caring for patients and significant contributions to the medical sector.