Month: May 2021

Ms Sarah Rawlings1, Ms Sue  Lamont, Ms  Sarah  Ashley Jones, Ms Nikki Collins 1Monash Childrens, Clayton, Australia Background: Monash Children’s Hospital trailed an alternative and novel model of care adding Dietetics, Speech Pathology, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy services to the...

Ms Sue Prosser1, Mr Matthew Egan1 1Central Coast Local Health District, Gosford, Australia Our pilot inter-professional Allied Health Mentoring program ran from June 2020-February 2021. We will share the methodology and the results including the unexpected benefits of the pilot...

Ms Bethany Hooke1, Mrs Sarah Baggio1 1Children’s Health Queensland, Brisbane, Australia The interface between health, education, disability and child safety is complex and dynamic. Navigating any one of these systems can be fraught, yet families of children and young people...

Mr Christopher Martin1,2, Emeritus Professor Kenneth Pakenham1, Dr Fiona Maccallum1 1University of Queensland, Australia, Brisbane, Australia, 2Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service, Sunshine Coast, Australia Background Palliative care aims to improve quality of life (QoL) across physical, spiritual, and psychosocial...

Mrs Jacinta Brenan1, Ms Jacqueline Kay1 1The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Australia Objectives: Describe objectively measured physical activity (PA) and sedentary behaviour in geriatric rehabilitation patients receiving care in the home-based (patient’s home) compared to the hospital-based (ward) setting. Design:...

Ms Meagan White1, A/Prof Vinicius Cavalheri2,3, Ms Kellie Blyth1 1Fiona Stanley Fremantle Hospitals Group, Perth, Australia, 2Allied Health, South Metropolitan Health Service, Perth, Australia, 3Curtin School of Allied Health, Curtin University, Perth, Australia The 111-bed State Rehabilitation Service has a...

Ms Linh Le-Kavanagh1, Ms Sarah Pearson1 1Joondalup Health Campus, Joondalup, Australia The Stroke Outpatient Clinic at Joondalup Health Campus (JHC) provides follow up allied health rehabilitation to stroke patients recently discharged from hospital.  The temporary closure of the clinic, secondary...

Ms Danielle Stone1,2,3, Professor Liz Ward4,5, Dr Hans Bogaardt1,3, Dr Robert Heard1, Professor Bonnie Martin-Harris6, Dr Andrew Smith7, Professor Jim Elliott1,3,8 1Speech Pathology Department, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, Australia, 2Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney,...

Ms Zoe Moss1, Ms Antoinet Staneke1 1Metro North Health, Brisbane, Australia Over two years, Metro North Health (MNH) has undertaken a renewal of it’s safe patient handling program.  In order to obtain consumer input into this process, an online survey...

Mrs Kimberly Stramyk1 1Central Coast Local Health District (CCLHD), Gosford, Australia Background: Patients who have dialysis have special nutritional needs. While admitted to hospital, it is recommended that dialysis patients have a high protein, no-added salt diet with mindfulness towards...