Australia’s favourable overall trends in bowel cancer incidence and mortality are masking an increase in young-onset bowel cancer, an uptick that began in the...
45 is the new 50
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Spotlight on cancer
In the midst of a new outbreak of Covid-19 in New South Wales, it is apt that this edition of Healthcare Spaces focuses on cancer. It is not just elective surgery that...
Challenges in healthcare design
David Stoneley, Director of Health Architecture for Australia at global design practice GHD Woodhead, outlines some of challenges in designing healthcare facilities,...
Flexible capacity added at Prince Charles Hospital
A modular facility providing additional capacity for endoscopy procedures has been installed at the Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane. Finding a solution and...
SHIFTING THE FOCUS
As the pace of the vaccine rollout accelerates and optimism starts to return, we can reflect on the challenges – and opportunities – that Covid-19 has brought and the...
The state of orthopaedic surgery
Despite efforts to catch up on elective surgery activity, a backlog remains for certain specialisms, orthopaedic procedures have some of the longest waiting times....
Quality matters: are your suppliers ISO certified?
Hospitals and health organisations must adhere to a number of standards and specific requirements, but that’s not necessarily the case for companies supplying them with...
Healthcare Infrastructure in the Peri-COVID-19 era
Peter Spryszynski, Country Manager for Q-bital Healthcare Solutions, looks back at the country’s Covid-19 response over the past 15 months and shares his observations...
EHD2021 – Creative Destruction: Design innovation in the face of existential threats
The 7th European Healthcare Design Congress & Exhibition – the world’s leading forum for exchange of research findings, best practice and policy thinking on the...
A BROADER PERSPECTIVE
Although Covid-19 is a global pandemic and has affected people across every continent in the past year, the impact has not been the same everywhere – and neither have...
