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    Health innovation boosted by $1.2 million grant 24 September 2025 South Metropolitan Health Service has secured $1.2 million grant to strengthen the WA health and medical innovation ecosystem by fostering collaboration among healthcare professionals, innovators, and industry.
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    SMHS is seeking new changemakers 04 September 2025 SMHS Mental Health is inviting young people to join its Youth Advisory Group, because designing mental health care for young people should be done with young people, not for them.
  • Julie pictured front centre, standing with the clinicians involved in her cancer journey.
    Ten years of cancer care providing hope for another day 21 August 2025 It’s not a milestone she ever imagined reaching, but for Julie, her tenth anniversary of care at FSH’s specialist Cancer Centre is well worth celebrating. It marks ten years since her stem cell transplant following a relapse of AML.
  • Heart transplant recipient Brett Driessen stands behind a bicycle. A nurse stands to his right and FSH Cardiac Transplant Nurse Practitioner Clare Fazackerley stands at his left
    Every day a gift for heart transplant recipient 01 August 2025 It was a full circle moment for heart transplant recipient Brett Driessen when he returned to Rockingham General Hospital as a guest speaker for DonateLife Week.

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  • A female doctor holds the hand of an older woman in a hospital bed.
    Emergency Department leader celebrated with Chief Executive’s award 04 November 2022 Fiona Stanley Hospital’s Head of Emergency Medicine, Dr Vanessa Clayden, has been recognised at the SMHS Excellence Awards for her commitment to providing the best possible patient care in one of Australia’s busiest emergency departments.
  • A man sitting in front of two computer screen during an online meeting. Two people can be seen on one of the screens.
    Virtual Immunology Clinic recognised for enabling treatment of remote patients 01 November 2022 Faced with growing demand for immunology services, the Virtual Immunology Clinic was launched to ensure timely care for patients, regardless of where they live.
  • A female health professional talks with a young man who is seated in a wheelchair. He is holding smartphone.
    Top innovation prize for new app that has our patients' backs 01 November 2022 Your SMHS Mobile Care is the first app worldwide to directly support patients undergoing rehabilitation for spinal cord injury throughout their inpatient care and journey beyond.
  • A man wearing a surgical mark sits talking to a man sitting in a hospital bed.
    SMHS Researcher of the Year awarded to leading bladder cancer researcher 27 October 2022 Fiona Stanley Fremantle Hospitals Group Head of Urology Professor Dickon Hayne was recently named SMHS Researcher of the Year for his commitment to improving treatments and outcomes for bladder cancer, a difficult-to-treat condition with decreasing survival outcomes.
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