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Don’t spend Christmas in Emergency

24 December 2017

This festive season, The Alfred emergency team is urging everyone to stay safe and avoid spending their holiday in the emergency department (ED).

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Media enquiries and family support for incident at Flinders Street

21 December 2017

The Alfred is caring for patients and families following the incident that occurred in Melbourne's CBD early on Thursday evening.

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Time for giving

20 December 2017

The Alfred joined with the Australian Red Cross Blood Service this week to call for more than 2,000 additional Victorian donors to give blood during the critical Christmas and New Year period. 

ED redevelopment enters final phase

15 December 2017

The corridor linking The Alfred’s main reception to the Emergency and Trauma Centre reopened this week, as redevelopment works continue to progress.

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Annual Meeting 2016-17

8 December 2017

Alfred Health recently held its Annual Meeting, detailing our results from the 2016-17 year. It was a challenging but rewarding year, with a high volume of patient admissions and increase in many of our statewide services.

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Partnership targets the burden of injury

8 December 2017

Advancing the prevention and management of injury and acute trauma is the focus of a new partnership between Alfred Health and Monash University.

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Ireland reaches out: honouring the greatest gift

29 November 2017

A commemorative stone sculpture gifted to Melbourne as part of a global initiative to remember organ donors and their families has been unveiled at The Alfred.

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Australia votes ‘yes’

15 November 2017

The results of the marriage equality postal survey were announced earlier today, with nearly 62 per cent of eligible Australians – more than seven million people – voting for change.

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Right Word. Right Time.

14 November 2017

Alfred Health is putting health professionals at the forefront of a new campaign to combat the single biggest killer of Australians each year. 

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A surgeon’s life on the battlefield

9 November 2017

In his everyday life, Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld is a neurosurgeon at The Alfred. But this year, in the 48°C heat of the Iraq summer, Professor Rosenfeld spent three months performing emergency neurosurgery on soldiers injured largely by bomb blasts and sniper bullets.