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Health services welcome the new Bayside Board

16 October 2025

We welcome the Victorian Minister for Health’s announcement of the inaugural board and board chair for Bayside Health. 

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Celebrating World Pharmacists Day

25 September 2025

Between calls, we managed to catch Lead Pharmacist for Home, Acute and Community, Duy Le, and wish him a Happy World Pharmacists Day! 

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Health services welcome Health Minister’s formal approval of Bayside Health voluntary merger

29 August 2025

We welcome the Victorian Minister for Health’s formal approval of the proposed voluntary merger to create Bayside Health — a unified health service that will bring Alfred Health, Bass Coast Health, Gippsland Southern Health Service, Kooweerup Regional Health Service and Peninsula Health together.

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Celebrating Dietitians Week

17 June 2025

This week is Dietitians Week, which highlights the role dietitians play in improving our health and wellbeing.  

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Helping the health of the next generation

20 May 2025

With over 700 clinical trials open across 20 clinical disciplines, we are one of Australia’s largest clinical trial providers.

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“Take care”: message from doctors on National Road Safety week

16 May 2025

Trauma Consultant Dr Marian Biddle is likely one of the first people you’d encounter following a road accident and admission to The Alfred.

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New, minimally invasive epilepsy surgery is changing lives

7 April 2025

The Alfred is the first hospital in Victoria and the second in Australia to offer a new and highly effective kind of brain surgery to treat previously ‘inoperable’ drug-resistant epilepsy.

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Young footballer’s fight for life

27 February 2025

In July 2024, an accident on the footy field left rising star Michael Pisker in a coma for 17 days. Less than a year later, the determined young man is able to share his story as his dedicated team of medical professionals reflect on his road to recovery.

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trauma

Working together for better health in Victoria’s south-east

26 February 2025

The Boards of Bass Coast Health and Gippsland Southern Health Service have announced both health services will merge into Bayside Health (working title) when it forms on 1 January 2026.

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Be all over melanoma this Check for Spots Day

30 January 2025

Living amongst the highest rates of melanoma in the world, Australians are being urged to become more familiar with their skin and ‘be all over melanoma’ this Check for Spots Day.

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