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  • 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.
  • Members of the PHC Medical Record and the HSS DMR Support teams
    SMHS becomes WA’s first fully Digital Medical Record public health service 19 February 2025 SMHS is proud to become the first public WA health service to have rolled out the Digital Medical Record (DMR) across all sites.
  • A female therapist places a supportive hand on the back of a female patient using elbow crutches
    Reaffirming our commitment to you 13 February 2025 South Metropolitan Health Service would like to reassure our community that we will not tolerate any form of racism against our patients, visitors or staff.
  • Professional photograph of Dr Wei-Sen Lam from the chest up, smiling at camera.
    Patient centred approach at heart of SMHS cancer services 05 February 2025 FSH Head of Service Medical Oncology, Dr Wei-Sen Lam, has spent almost a decade treating cancer patients and knows the importance of improving patient outcomes and service.

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  • Four women involved in the Cockburn Gateway smoke free project standing in front of the shopping centre.
    Creating smoke and vape free spaces at Cockburn Gateway 22 January 2025 SMHS Health Promotion and Cockburn Gateway Shopping City are working together to create a healthier shopping environment for shoppers, employees, and the wider community.
  • Work colleagues stand together smiling
    Pastoral Care offers insights into a happy and healthy 2025 21 January 2025 As we get into the swing of a busy new year, many of us with a variety of new years’ resolutions underway, we thought we’d take the opportunity to hear from our Pastoral Care team about the steps they’re taking to ring in the new year right.
  • All 128 SMHS medical interns stood in three neat tiers in a grassy courtyard.
    New year sees fresh faces join SMHS medical workforce 13 January 2025 As we head into 2025, we welcome128 medical graduates beginning their careers with SMHS as junior doctors.
  • Trial investigator Dr Henco Nel standing in a hallway with his hands in pockets, with the ICU sign in the background behind him.
    Faecal microbiota transplantation helping ICU patients 12 November 2024 A pilot study at Fiona Stanley Hospital is investigating the role that faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) may play in providing lifesaving treatment for critically ill intensive care unit patients.
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