Prof Gary Geelhoed will take up the position of Chief Medical Officer for WA Health this month. He has been ED Director at PMH for the past decade and a past president of the AMA (WA).
Mr Ian Anderson has been appointed CEO of St John of God Midland Public and Private Hospitals and will be responsible for overseeing the design, construction, clinical service development and commissioning of the 307 bed public hospital and 60 bed private hospital. Ian previously worked for North Metropolitan Health Service, HBF and SKG Radiology.
The DoH’s Health Information Network has awarded a $90m contract to Amcom L7, ISA Technologies and Fujitsu Australia for a panel arrangement to collectively support the department’s ICT needs across the state. It is expected the new system will improve communication speeds, expand bandwidth, consolidate infrastructure and improve service consistency and reliability by 2019.
14 individuals will have the chance to win a total of $90,000 towards attendance at a relevant international conference by applying for the 2013 Aspire Awards run by the Perth Convention Bureau and supported by WA’s universities and the RACS among others. The award’s selection criteria at www.pcb.com.au/aspire.
Fourth-year UWA medical student Madeleine Venables received the national Rural Health Workforce award for her contribution to university’s rural health club, Spinrphex and her work promoting good health to young people in rural areas.
Adrian Large, nurse practitioner at the Kingsley Family Practice, has been named national Nurse Practitioner of the Year.
Doric Contractors has been named as the preferred contractor for the construction of the $118m new Busselton Hospital. The hospital will include 64 beds, 20 same-day beds, a renal unit, two theatres, a procedure room and expansion of the ED. Construction is expected to be completed by June 2014.
The National Heart Foundation has been awarded a $8.06m Health Department contract to deliver a Healthy Workplace Support Service to regional areas. The foundation is expected to provide free services to “support workplaces to make changes that result in positive lifestyle behaviour changes among their employees”.