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16 January 2025
Improving health outcomes at five rural Darling Downs Health facilities
This small device is having a big impact on helping improve rural health outcomes across the Darling Downs.
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16 January 2025
Works commence on new helipad at Kingaroy Hospital
Work has commenced on a new helipad at Kingaroy Hospital. Replacing the existing one located at the northern end of the campus, the new location will help future proof air transportation at the facility for decades to come.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.