News

16 January 2025

Darling Downs Health welcomes 64 medical interns for 2025

Dr Lucy Lloyd-Morgan has always cared about regional and rural healthcare; in fact, you could say that passion is part of her DNA.

29 May 2024

Miles Hospital is growing its own nursing workforce

In a bid to ease increasing recruitment pressures in rural healthcare, Miles Hospital is proactively growing its own local nursing workforce.

25 August 2023

Medical students get a taste of the South Burnett during immersion tour

Kingaroy Hospital welcomed fifteen Year 1 medical students from The University of Queensland, allowing them to get a valuable insight into regional healthcare during the four-day immersion.

18 January 2023

Record number of new doctors tee off careers at Darling Downs Health

Fifty-four medical interns will begin work across Darling Downs Health’s hospitals this month which marks the largest cohort of interns since the program commenced.

24 October 2022

Four nurses embark on an exciting new pilot program in regional Queensland

A Queensland-first program is attracting people from the city to the country, to allow them to grow their skills in a rural town.

26 April 2022

New equipment boosts molecular testing capability and career pathways

Toowoomba Hospital is now home to a state-of-the-art Roche Cobas 6800 multiplex analyser.

15 February 2022

107 new nurses across the Darling Downs Health region

Darling Downs Health mobile women’s health nurses are on the road, travelling to our rural locations to provide free and confidential health clinics.

07 December 2021

Partners to deliver end-to-end medical training for Darling Downs and South West

One hundred future doctors will be training in the Darling Downs and South West regions within 3 years.