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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 excellence pursued:
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 >
The Statewide Health Building Program was the most ambitious construction program in Queensland's history and was second only to Sydney's 2000 Olympics commitment in terms of budget and scope. The program was a decade-long vision of the rebuilding, re-equipping and rebirth of public hospitals and community, primary, multi-purpose and aged health facilities of this state.
Queensland Health managed over 50 major projects and an additional 100 smaller projects. The capital works program also provides for infrastructure development and maintenance for mental health, aged care residential and rural development, information technology and equipment replacement.
The primary objective of this program is to provide high quality infrastructure (buildings, equipment, information technology) that improves health services for all Queenslanders.
Planning is also on track for the development of three new tertiary hospitals, worth a total $3 billion, which will form part of the largest health infrastructure program ever undertaken in Australia. Find out more at www.buildinghealth.qld.gov.au or read about our new hospitals here:
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.
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.
Read more about the 13Health service here >
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