No English, no worries with new COVID-19 testing explainer
So you have symptoms of COVID-19. What happens next?
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Helpline links students to health and wellbeing
Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) has established a team of health professionals, known as the “School-Link team”.
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Western Sydney Filipino Leaders’ meeting to lead the fight against diabetes
People of a Filipino background are one of the highest ethnic groups at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and western Sydney is home to the largest of Sydney’s Filipino migrant population with Blacktown, Rooty Hill, Mount Druitt, Quakers Hill, Plumpton and Woodcroft the most popular suburbs.
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COVID-19 disease detective tells it straight on new podcast episode
Nearly one million people have died worldwide, so this doctor says there’s no way we overreacted.
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Text a chaplain at Westmead Hospital
Spiritual support is just a text message away for hospital patients, visitors and staff.
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Auburn Hospital improves access to pregnancy care
Pregnant women now have quicker access to high quality care thanks to a comprehensive redesign of the outpatient antenatal service.
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Oral health staff offer helping hands in maternity
COVID-19 has led to some unexpected but enjoyable redeployments in our health district.
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How Milky Lane survived a COVID scare and avoided any transmission
The business’s COVID Safe plan kept staff and customers safe when an infectious customer dined there.
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What you need to know about sepsis and COVID-19
This World Sepsis Day, September 13, experts from the Clinical Excellence Commission are reminding health professionals to be alert for signs and symptoms of sepsis, including patients with COVID-19, and to be ready to ask ‘Could it be sepsis?’.
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Spirited team jumps in to STEPtember charity for cerebral palsy
Eager to move together for cerebral palsy, staff from various departments across the district have donned their walking shoes, limbered up and hit “go” on their FitBits.
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