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5 June 2023 — Dr Louis Peachey was the ‘Aboriginal kid from the jungles of North Queensland’ but has become a champion for countless medical professionals.

21 March 2025 — News articles from around the Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service

24 April 2024 — The Hospital in the Home program has been a huge relief for patients such as disability employment support specialist Quinn Bolger-Hopkins.

27 June 2024 — Evie, aged 9, won an Eisteddfod Prize for report on her Cairns Hospital stay when she was seriously ill with diabetes.

15 August 2024 — Health officials are urging people to be on the lookout for signs of meningococcal disease, following an outbreak of the dangerous disease in Yarrabah.

3 March 2025 — Watching energetic five-year-old Nya run, jump and dance along with her friends, you would never have known she was born with a condition that affected her mob...

26 September 2024 — A morning TV segment on men’s health may have saved Tony Milne’s life.

30 August 2024 — ‘Hospital in the Home’ provides hospital equivalent care in a person’s home. After 14 weeks in Cairns Hospital 88-year-old Jim Copp was relieved to be able to ...

17 July 2023 — A new service at Cairns Hospital is helping assess patients’ hearing, at all ages.

4 October 2024 — Partygoers are being urged by public health officials to ‘play safe’ during the upcoming Cairns Pride Festival, amid confirmed cases of mpox in Queensland.

29 January 2024 — Health officials are advising residents to be cautious when coming into contact with soil and muddy water, following a spike in cases of a dangerous disease in...

24 November 2023 — Cairns Hospital doctors are kicking goals at the first dedicated sports medicine clinic in a Queensland public hospital.

31 October 2024 — A chance meeting with a Cairns Hospital doctor at a GP clinic has allowed a Yorkeys Knob retiree to recover from a serious leg injury in the comfort of his own...

26 March 2025 — Bullrider Tristan is used to a rough ride. But when he was bitten by a venomous snake on an outback property, he admits it was a scary experience.

6 February 2024 — More than 100 graduates, consisting of registered nurses, enrolled nurses, and midwives started their employment at the Health Service in February.