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15 January 2025
Box jellyfish sightings prompt warning
Health authorities are warning all Cape York, Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area residents to take care while swimming due to recent sightings of box jellyfish.
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15 January 2025
TCHHS Falls Prevention Group empowers Elders
Falls can be a significant challenge for older adults, but the Thursday Island Falls Prevention Group at TCHHS is having a positive impact.
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10 January 2025
Shoe-perb effort by the TCHHS Travel team
The Travel Team have donated more thongs to the community, this time to the Australian Red Cross.
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06 January 2025
Graduation day for Deadly Start School Based Trainees
The first cohort of Deadly Start School Based Trainees (SBT) on Thursday Island graduated on Friday December 13, 2024
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27 November 2024
TCHHS ready to welcome First Nations students and graduates
TCHHS is continuing its commitment to ‘grow our own’ by providing more opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and graduates to join the Health Service.
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22 November 2024
Tagai college health checks
Young people on Thursday Island are being encouraged to have regular health checks and build healthy behaviours for the future.
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18 November 2024
Accreditation success for TCHHS Eastern Cluster Primary Health Care Centres
Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service (TCHHS) Eastern Cluster Primary Health Care Centres (PHCC) have achieved accreditation with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), acknowledging the high quality of the services
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29 October 2024
Midwife delivers new qualifications to support women in Western Cape region
Women and babies in the Western Cape region will now have greater access to contemporary evidence-based best practice midwifery care.
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22 October 2024
First Nations Assistant Director of Nursing - Workforce Design
We are delighted to announce the appointment of our inaugural First Nations Assistant Director of Nursing - Workforce Design, Hylda Poipoi (Wapau).
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26 August 2024
Patients’ praise for staff after serious wound injuries
Two Torres Strait patients have praised Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service staff after recovering from potentially life-threatening skin wounds.
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21 June 2024
TCHHS claims top prize at Queensland Health Excellence Awards
Wujal Wujal Primary Health Care Centre’s team has claimed top honours at the Queensland Health Award for Excellence for their response to the 2023 flooding disaster.