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Critical Care Appeal raising lifesaving funds for Mobile ECPR

5 September 2025

This year’s Critical Care Appeal is fundraising to support Mobile ECPR, an advanced form of life support which takes over the function of the heart and lungs for patients in the community after cardiac arrest. 

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fundraising

heart failure

Family night at The Alfred ICU

1 September 2025

Recently Julie and Bill travelled from Gippsland to get to know their daughter’s “other family”.

icu

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.

patients

staff

Australian-first trial aims to halve prostate cancer treatment time

22 August 2025

The Alfred has become the first hospital in Australia to trial a groundbreaking treatment approach for intermediate-risk prostate cancer, cutting the number of sessions required for radiation therapy to the whole prostate by more than half.

cancer

patients

radiation therapy

Life in the Alfred ICU

13 August 2025

Most people who pass by The Alfred’s ICU building are unaware of what happens inside – but anyone who has entered its doors as a staff member, a patient or a loved one, will have a compelling story to tell.

icu

patients

trauma

World-first trial takes aim at deadly silicosis

8 August 2025

New hope is on the horizon for silicosis sufferers with Melbourne experts set to embark on a world-first trial designed to halt progression of the deadly lung disease.

clinical trials

lung

respiratory

Vic’s road to transplant

5 August 2025

As 54 year old Vic Wiggins waited for a lifesaving heart transplant, he never gave up hope he’d one day be able to join his son on a long bike ride.

heart

heart failure

patients

transplant

“What worked in melanoma can work in brain cancer”

4 August 2025

At the recent 2025 Andrew Olle Lecture, our Director of Neurosurgery Professor Lindy Jeffree addressed the audience in her capacity as Chair of Brain Cancer Australia National Consortium.

brain

cancer research

Two leaders in the global fight against STIs

31 July 2025

As of this week, Alfred Health's Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (MSHC) is home to not one, but two incoming Presidents of large international organisations in the field of sexually transmitted infections.

leadership

research & innovation

sexual health

Organ donation: the ultimate and most precious gift

29 July 2025

Rob Brewster was just 51 when he was fatally struck by a jet ski while swimming at his local beach in Port Melbourne.

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organ donation

patients

transplant