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  • Monique standing in a yellow dress, holding a framed certificate and glass trophy.
    SMHS shines at 2025 WA Nursing and Midwifery Excellence Awards 12 May 2025 SMHS was well represented at this year’s WA Nursing and Midwifery Excellence Awards, with Fiona Stanley Hospital’s Monique Carbone announced as winner of the Excellence in Registered Nursing award category.
  • Two members of the Peel Health Campus endoscopy team stand between a man and woman. They are holding a WANMEA 2025 finalist certificate.
    SMHS finalists shine at WANMEA Awards 10 April 2025 Meet the 6 outstanding South Metropolitan Health Service staff who were named finalists in the 2025 WA Nursing and Midwifery Excellence Awards.
  • A young woman wearing Fiona Stanley Fremantle Hospitals Group scrubs holds a mobile phone with an open app on the screen.
    LifeBerg: Wellbeing app for junior doctors 03 April 2025 New junior doctors at Fiona Stanley Hospital have started their orientation on the right foot with a presentation on a new, free app called ‘LifeBerg’, developed by a junior doctor to help them manage their busy work and life schedules.
  • Emergency Medicine Consultant Simone Bartlett stands outside Fiona Stanley Hospital holding a smart phone in her left hand.
    SMHS is ‘appy’ with study to improve outcomes for patients with concussion 18 March 2025 Using app-based technology to better understand and improve the management of concussion, services across both Fiona Stanley Hospital and Rockingham General Hospital are collaborating with organisations across the country on the Australian Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Study.

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  • Two women and man wearing hi visibility safety vests, goggles and hard hats stand in a construction zone in front of a poster on an easel. The poster reads Fremantle Hospital, 40 new mental health beds, new 24-hour mental health urgent care service, opening in 2025
    Construction begins on 40 additional mental health beds at Fremantle Hospital 10 January 2024 Construction has started on additional mental health beds at Fremantle Hospital to expand treatment and support options for patients in the southern corridor.
  • A group of eight people, including Minister for Health Amber-Jade Sanderson (third from left) sit around a table at the opening of the Kara Maar Specialist Eating Disorder Clinic
    SMHS ‘Kara Maar’ specialist eating disorder service opens in Cockburn 20 December 2023 South Metropolitan Health Service is proud to have opened a new purpose-built eating disorder service in Cockburn with the Minister for Health.
  • A male and female health professional talk with an Aboriginal woman. The woman is sitting down and her hands are resting on a walking frame.
    Meet our four 2023 WA Health Excellence Awards finalists 14 November 2023 Four outstanding South Metropolitan Health Service teams are finalists in the WA Health Excellence Awards to be held on 7 December 2023.
  • Five representatives from Act Belong Commit, Lakelands Shopping Centre, City of Mandurah and SMHS Health Promotion team stand together at the Spring into Life event.
    Health promotion team supporting mental wellbeing for Mandurah locals 20 October 2023 The South Metropolitan Health Service Health Promotion team recently celebrated another major success, playing a key role in promoting mental wellbeing for the Mandurah community.
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Last Updated: 05/05/2025
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