Wouldn’t it be great if kids started their day building connections with peers, feeling happy and ready to learn? That’s exactly what happened last week at Tootgarook when the school community excitedly met at a local park to walk to school together. Tootgarook Primary School is nestled in the heart of the Southern Mornington Peninsula. …
Monoclonal antibody treatments have transformed the lives of severe asthma patients. Yet, the lack of comparative trials and real-world usage data poses a challenge for clinicians. Peninsula Health researcher Professor David Langton set out to fill this gap by evaluating and comparing the performance of Benralizumab and Mepolizumab treatments using real clinic data from two …
Whether you are dining in or taking away, you’ll now have access to a range of healthier food and drinks at the food outlets and vending machines across our health service. In the last two years, our Health Promotion team have been working hard to implement the Victorian Government Healthy choices: policy directive, a directive …
Congratulations to Capel Sounds Educational Child Care Centre (ECCC) and Kindergarten for winning our FoodChecker prize draw, a brand new android tablet! Capel Sounds ECCC recently completed a FoodChecker menu assessment to ensure their service was meeting the Victorian Menu Planning Guidelines for Long Day Care. By meeting the guidelines, Capel Sounds ECCC are ensuring …
Elisabeth Murdoch College (EMC) is celebrating after recently achieving recognition from the Victorian Government and Cancer Council Victoria’s Achievement Program (AP), for the Mental Health and Wellbeing health area. This well-deserved recognition acknowledges the schools ongoing efforts to prioritise the health and wellbeing of all students, staff and families. To support this work, EMC is …
Recovery following an injury is never easy, particularly if it is an injury to the brain caused by a stroke. Delayed intervention can lead to widespread and long-lasting problems, so it is important that best practices are in place to give stroke survivors optimal chances at regaining their strength. Photo: Dr Laura Jolliffe completes arm …
Meet Aymee, one of our Registered Nurses here at Peninsula Health! Aymee has been a Registered Nurse with our health service since her graduate year in 2021. However, her Peninsula Heath journey started a year earlier as a third-year nursing student at Rosebud Emergency Department. “I have spent the majority of my nursing career at …
Congratulations to Carrum Downs Secondary College for their amazing efforts which have resulted in a Sexual Health and Wellbeing priority recognition by the Heathy Schools Achievement Program. The school achieved this priority area through a whole school approach, which included developing both their sexual health and wellbeing and school uniform policies, student led action of …
This International Clinical Trials Day, Saturday 20 May, we’re shining a spotlight on one of the latest studies taking place at Peninsula Health, the ‘Evaluation of the safety and efficacy of extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal in the critically ill using PrismaLung.’ The study began in March 2022 at Frankston Hospital. Trialing a new minimally …
Flying more than 14,000 km to study medicine at the University of Melbourne, Dr Jonathan Tran has since completed his studies and joins Peninsula Health as a Medical Intern, gaining the final skills necessary to become a fully qualified doctor. Inspired from a young age to work in medicine, Dr Tran is looking forward to …
