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Volunteer aphasia group set to expand 13 September 2024 Volunteer services will be expanding at Osborne Park Hospital (OPH) next month, with past aphasia patients meeting with current patients from our Stroke Rehabilitation ward to share their experiences to assist others with their recovery. The volunteers are part of iDecide, an aphasia-based volunteer Consumer Advisory Group formed at OPH in 2021 under the guidance of the OPH Speech Pathology Department. Aphasia is a condition that occurs as a result of damage to the language centre of the brain with one in three people experiencing aphasia after a stroke. It can affect a person's ability to communicate, including speech, understanding, reading and writing; it does not affect intelligence. iDecide group member and former stroke patient Jamie said he was excited at the prospect of expanding the group's services to meet with other patients with aphasia. “We know what they are going thr...

New outpatient Prehabilitation service 26 August 2024 A new Prehabilitation service has been launched for patients receiving treatment at Sir Charles Gairdner and Osborne Park Hospitals with the aim to improve patients physical, nutritional, and psychological health prior to complex surgery or stem cell transplant. The Prehabilitation service is a pre-surgical multidisciplinary team providing physiotherapy, dietetics, and clinical psychology for outp...

Electronic prescribing implementation 12 June 2024 The North Metropolitan Health Service (NMHS) is in the process of implementing electronic prescriptions (external site) in the Outpatient Clinics at Sir Charles Gairdner (SCGH) and Osborne Park Hospitals (OPH). This project will align the SCGOPH care group with the other health service providers in Western Australia, providing patients with access to electronic prescriptions across the state. Inst...

Congratulations to our nursing award winners 13 May 2024 We are proud to announce Fiona Irwin and Leo Wu as our 2024 Rotary Nurse of the Year award winners for Sir Charles Gairdner (SCGH) and Osborne Park Hospitals (OPH). Congratulations also to OPH clinical nursing facilitator Miriam Sprange on winning the Lorraine Johnson Preceptor Award this week. The annual events were held this week as part of our International Nurses Day celebrations. The Rotary N...

Patient Experience Week Feedback 02 May 2024 For Patient Experience Week from 29 April to 3 May, Sir Charles Gairdner Osborne Park Health Care Group are highlighting feedback from patients and their loved ones to show how it is the little things that can make all the difference. Patient Experience Week is an opportunity to celebrate the people who have positive impact on the patient experience. A family member of a patient recently shared a ...