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  • six staff standing in front of two pull up banners
    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.
  • Six forearms and hands reach up from the bottom of the image. Text reads Youth Advisory Group
    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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  • One male and three female health professionals in a treatment area
    Fiona Stanley Hospital proudly stars in new internationally-broadcast TV series 16 June 2022 A new documentary series, 'Children's Hospital', highlights the life-changing work done in the emergency department and paediatrics wards every day at Fiona Stanley and Perth Children’s hospitals.
  • Two men and two women stand together smiling in hospital scrubs inside a theatre
    Environment the winner in anaesthetic gas ban at SMHS 05 June 2022 A vote by Fiona Stanley Fremantle Hospitals Group (FSFHG) anaesthetists back in 2020 to no longer use the gas desflurane, has delivered a significant win for the environment, and the departments budget. While desflurane is a commonly-used anaesthetic agent, it is also a potent greenhouse gas. Since the 2020 vote, the department has used up the remaining cannisters of the gas and committed to not ordering any more stock. At the time, FSFHG was one of the first in Australia to remove desflurane from theatres. The ban has seen CO2 going into the atmosphere from desflurane drop from 34,554kg per month to zero. In addition, purchasing has gone from a peak of 39 bottles per month to zero, saving $10,000 per month for the department. The move to ban desflurane was driven by the FSFHG Green Theatres Group and anaesthetists Dr Adam Crossley, Dr Jennifer Liddell, Dr James Anderson and Dr Archana S...
  • Men and women sit in an auditorium, physically distanced and wearing face masks.
    Welcome to new cohort of medical staff across SMHS 28 January 2022 2022 is off to a flying start with 133 junior doctors joining SMHS earlier this month. Junior doctors are an essential and highly valued part of our medical workforce.
  • Dockers players with award recipients
    Celebrating our brave kids 10 December 2021 Ten of SMHS young patients were formally recognised for their courage, spirit and endurance during their treatment in hospital at the Fremantle Dockers Football Club’s annual AJ Diamond Club Bravery Awards.
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