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Queensland Health

Excellence @ QH

Queensland Health is one of Australia’s largest single health organisations, delivering a vast range of health services across Queensland.

Below is just a sample of the many areas of areas of excellence pursued:

Skills Development Centre

The Queensland Health Skills Development Centre is one of most technologically advanced and comprehensive skills development centres in the world. Opened in September 2004, it is the only one of seven in Oceania to have a complete suite of virtual reality and simulation training equipment. It covers over 3500sqm, with 26 session rooms, laboratories, and even a fully-functional operating theatre and hospital ward.

Based on the Herston Campus, the Skills Development Centre (SDC) provides healthcare professionals - doctors, nurses and allied health professionals - in Australia and Asia Pacific, tools and training to improve their skills and enhance the quality of patient care.  Read more >

Telehealth

Queensland Health is recognised internationally as having the largest and most utilised videoconferencing network of any single health organisation in the world.

TeleHealth technologies allow health professionals in rural and remote areas to readily access support and share up-to-date information relating to patient care and emerging health trends. It also provides health professionals with innovative options for delivering clinical services in the bush.

Health Contact Centre - 13 HEALTH

The Health Contact Centre is a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week, statewide service that provides health information and triage advice. It is accessible to all Queenslanders by calling 13 HEALTH - 13 43 25 84 at the cost of a local call.

The centre began taking general information and triage calls from emergency departments and hospital switchboards from across the state from 13 February, and was available to all Queenslanders in late April 2006.

The Health Contact Centre is not intended to replace medical consultation. Instead, it is designed to point people in the right direction, whether it be an anxious parent of a child with a headache and stomach rash, or someone seeking information about head lice, or a caller concerned about a mental health issue. People with a medical emergency should still call 000.