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Smoking ceremony at St George Hospital

NAIDOC Week 2020 was celebrated at a host of events throughout SESLHD with this year’s theme in mind: Always Was, Always Will Be, which speaks to the long history of Aboriginal cultures, over 65,000 years – the longest living…

An elderly man and children playing with a ball

The Sydney-based television series Old People’s Home For 4 Year Olds has won a coveted Emmy Award. Dr Stephanie Ward, from Prince of Wales Hospital, is the expert geriatrician featured in the series, which aims to demonstrate…

Young people having a picnic and discussing the negative impacts of shisha

The Shisha No Thanks project team has taken home a winning prize in the 2020 Premier's Multicultural Communications Awards, in the CommBank Business Campaign of the Year category. The awards are an annual event and recognise excellence in the…

Corey Sclater cutting a cake

Two SESLHD staff were named winners at the 2020 NSW Health Excellence in Nursing and Midwifery Awards during a live broadcast on Thursday, 26 November. The accolades were awarded to:

  • New to Practice Nurse/Midwife of the Year: Corey…
Attendees at the symposium

The annual St George and Sutherland hospitals Medical Research Symposium was a little different this year, with staff tuning in virtually. The event was broadcast from the St George Hospital Research and Education Centre auditorium, with…

Staff sharing messages of hope during Mental Health Month

Each October, SESLHD's mental health staff take time to spread messages of hope and recovery, and raise awareness of mental health and wellbeing. The theme for Mental Health Month 2020 was ‘Tune In’.



“We are a passionate group of…

Tobi Wilson, Rupesh Udani & Danielle Fisher

Congratulations to SESLHD volunteer, Rupesh Udani for taking out the Volunteer of the Year Award in the 2020 NSW Health Awards.



The NSW Health Awards recognise the essential role of the health system in NSW, and congratulate…

enior staff and MPs commemorate the occasion outsite the hospital

Campaigning efforts by the community, Members of Parliament and SESLHD staff last week resulted in the announcement that Sutherland Hospital will soon receive its own MRI machine.



NSW Minister for Health and Medical Research,…

Reynaldo Aragon

Reynaldo Aragon (pictured), one of the security guards patrolling the COVID-19 Clinic at Sutherland Hospital was recently recognised for his outstanding work in the Facebook group ‘Everything Sutherland Shire’.



On the…

Physiotherapy staff walking in hospital ward

SESLHD celebrated Allied Health Professionals Day on Wednesday 14 October with this year's theme in mind: Celebrating, appreciating, inspiring, connecting.

There are 23 disciplines that make up our allied health…