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St Vincent's Private Hospital Northside is an acute tertiary private Catholic hospital.

12/03/2026

07/03/2026

International Women’s Day 2026 💜

This International Women’s Day, we celebrate and empower the women who make what we do at St Vincent’s possible.

From the Sisters of Charity, who laid the foundations of our organisation 169 years ago, to the thousands of women leading, researching, and providing care everyday across our hospitals.

This year’s theme, Give to Gain, encourages a mindset of generosity and collaboration, by emphasising the power of reciprocity and support.

Contributing to women's advancement helps create a more supportive and interconnected world. Women make up 75% of our 30,000-strong workforce, and their leadership and expertise shape our organisation and the care we provide every day.

When we invest in women, we create stronger, more inclusive workplaces and deliver better and fairer care, always.

05/03/2026

St Vincent’s Private Hospital Brisbane’s 2026 symposium is this Saturday!

We look forward to hosting 95 general practitioners tomorrow at our CPD event: Unravelling Complexity in Ageing.

This highly interactive forum will offer an engaging and dynamic mix of didactic presentations, panel discussions, and small group workshops designed to translate evidence into practice.

GPs will be joined by our leading geriatricians, pain medicine physicians, and rehabilitation specialists alongside our nursing and allied health team for a day of networking and thoughtful insights.

We can’t wait to welcome you all as we strive to provide better and fairer care, always.

04/03/2026

World Obesity Day: Weight loss drugs on the rise but no ‘silver bullet’

Today is World Obesity Day, a unified day of action calling for a cohesive, cross-sector response to the global obesity crisis.

Obesity is a complex, chronic disease and a major driver of conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer.

At St Vincent's Private Hospital Northside, bariatric surgeon Dr George Hopkins highlights the sharp rise in the use of weight-loss drugs, and why these medications, while helpful for some, are not a long-term 'silver bullet.'

He explains that many patients experience side effects, financial strain, or only modest weight loss, prompting them to explore more sustainable options such as bariatric surgery, combined with lifestyle and metabolic care.

On this World Obesity Day, we’re encouraging Australians to understand the realities of obesity treatment and the importance of evidence-based, long-term support.

Read the full article:
👉 svph.org.au/patient-news/world-obesity-day-weight-loss-drugs-on-the-rise

02/03/2026

Beginning of Year Mass & Cuddle Bed Blessing

Staff, volunteers and community supporters from across St Vincent’s Aged Care and Hospitals gathered last night in the Giovanni Chapel at St Vincent’s Private Hospital Brisbane for the Beginning of Year Mass celebrated by Archbishop Shane Mackinlay alongside chaplains, Fr Rodel, Fr Stephen and Fr Seamus.

The Mass offered a blessing over the health care work of all St Vincent’s staff and volunteers for the year ahead.

It was a special time for the St Vincent’s community and a privilege to welcome Prof. Michael Drew and Gary Humphrys from the Mary Akinhead Ministries, as well as Chris Blake, CEO of St Vincent’s Health Australia, and Chris Jacobs-Vandegeer, Mission Leader. We were blessed to be joined by Sisters of Charity, Sr Clare Nolan rsc and Deirdre Hickey rsc.

Following the Mass, Archbishop Shane led a private blessing of St Vincent’s first cuddle bed and family suite in the palliative care ward. He was joined by Mrs Lauren O’Mahony who worked closely with St Vincent’s Foundation Queensland to raise funds in memory of her husband Don O’Mahony who passed away from brain cancer in 2024, age 41yrs.

Lauren’s two young sons supported the fundraising efforts through their school and kindy communities.

Cuddle beds are a symbol of comfort, closeness and dignity for patients and families. They allow families to stay physically close to their loved one during end-of-life care.

By creating space for a partner, child or family member to lie beside the patient, cuddle beds provide comfort, reduce anxiety, and support meaningful connection in the moments when closeness matters most.

If you would like to find out more or donate to our palliative care program, contact St Vincent’s Foundation Queensland by email SVFQ@svha.org.au or ph 1800 161 197

26/02/2026

Join the Team!

St Vincent’s Private Hospital Northside is seeking Clinical Nurses to join our Operating Theatre team across several specialities at our hospital.

As a Cardiac Clinical Nurse, you will support the expansion of our cardiac service, utilising your advanced specialty capability. As a Vascular Clinical Nurse, you will support both open vascular and endovascular surgery.

We are looking for nurses with strong clinical leadership, advanced specialty skills, and a commitment to excellence in perioperative care.

Does this sound like you? Apply now 👉 https://bit.ly/SVPHNClinicalNurses

25/02/2026

Join the Team!

St Vincent's Private Hospital Northside is seeking experienced Orthopaedic Scrub Scout Nurses to join our Perioperative Services team.

In this role, you will bring your advanced orthopaedic perioperative skills to deliver safe, high-quality patient care across a variety of surgical specialties.

You’ll be responsible for anticipating surgical needs, maintaining a safe and efficient operating environment, and collaborating closely with surgeons, anaesthetists and the wider multidisciplinary team.

We’re looking for nurses with strong clinical expertise, a commitment to excellence, and a passion for supporting patients through their surgical journey.

Does this sound like you?
Apply now 👉 https://www.seek.com.au/job/90495925/apply/external?sol=b725f8f9c0f5d3457e666444d349fd2d19e9a4e1

24/02/2026

Meet Donna, our Clinical Documentation Specialist at St Vincent’s Private Hospital Northside!

A valued member of the St Vincent’s family for seven years, Donna began her journey working in the ICU before joining the Quality and Risk team in 2022.

No two days are the same in Donna’s role. She works closely with doctors to continually improve documentation standards and best practice across the hospital.

Donna loves being a problem solver, collaborating with her fantastic team, building strong relationships with doctors and their admin teams, and seeing the real-world impact of quality improvements.

“In this fast-paced and ever-changing world of healthcare, accurate and timely clinical documentation is critical for quality care and patient safety. It shouldn’t be seen as a burden, but as a clinical tool - when we invest in improving it, everyone benefits.”

Thank you, Donna, for your passion, expertise and dedication - helping us to provide better and fairer care, always.

18/02/2026

Creating World-Class Health Services for Queensland

It was great for St Vincent's Health Australia to hear firsthand from Queensland Minister for Health and Ambulance Services, the Hon. Tim Nicholls MP, at the Queensland Media Club yesterday outlining the vision for creating a world-class health service for Queensland.

We welcomed insights from Queensland Health in responding to the challenge of its 'Build-and-Fill strategy' - to 'build' more infrastructure and 'fill' it with a world class health workforce.

A growing and ageing population in Queensland is putting all hospitals and healthcare services under pressure.

St Vincent's Health Australia stands ready to support Queensland Health in any way it can to deliver on this vision and provide Queenslanders with the best healthcare.

St Vincent's. Better and fairer care, always.

Metro North Health Metro South Health

17/02/2026

Shrove Tuesday 🥞

Today we celebrated Shrove Tuesday at St Vincent’s Private Hospital Northside, with our wonderful Food Services team preparing and delivering fresh pancakes to our staff across the hospital.

Also known as Pancake Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday is traditionally a time to use up rich ingredients before the forty days of Lent. It reminds us of reflection, simplicity and kindness to others.

The Lenten Season begins on Ash Wednesday, 18 February 2026.

Thank you to our Food Services team for bringing a moment of connection and joy to our community!

16/02/2026

We're Hiring!

St Vincent's Private Hospital Northside is currently looking for a Clinical Coder to join our team.
We’re looking for candidates with strong clinical coding experience and a commitment to accuracy and continuous improvement.

In this role, you will be responsible for assigning accurate and timely clinical codes to patient episodes of care, analysing medical records and applying industry coding standards including ICD-10-AM.

You will play a key role in supporting quality data capture and reporting that underpins high-quality patient care and hospital performance.

Does this sound like you?

Apply now 👉 https://www.seek.com.au/job/90238804

04/02/2026

Today is World Cancer Day—an international day dedicated to raising awareness, encouraging prevention, and mobilising action to address the global cancer epidemic.

As cancer rates continue to rise across Australia, St Vincent’s Private Hospital Northside and Brisbane remain committed to working collaboratively with our community to strengthen diagnostic, referral, and treatment pathways. Through education initiatives such as our 2024 Oncology Symposium and the upcoming Icon Cancer Centre - Australia opening at St Vincent’s Private Hospital Northside, we aim to enhance patient outcomes and support better care.

The World Cancer Day 2026 theme, United by Unique, places people at the centre of care and highlights the importance of personalised approaches in making a meaningful difference. We encourage everyone to stay diligent in spreading awareness and supporting early detection across our community.

Learn about practical steps you can take to support early cancer detection here: https://bit.ly/LearnMoreHereSVPHN

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These guidelines are in place to help create a safe environment on all social media channels run by St Vincent’s Health Australia in which to encourage open discussion. We aim to create a supportive online community for our patients, families, staff and the general community where members can engage safely in debate and are free to make comments and ask questions. We require that anyone engaging with our social media channels shows courtesy, kindness and respect for all other members of our social media communities.

In order to help create this safe environment we have set out some guidelines which apply to any engagement with us or other members of the community on any of our social media channels.

By engaging with our social media channels you agree to act responsibly and respectfully and follow these guidelines.

Comments or content must not:

Contain spam, be defamatory of any person, deceive others, be obscene, offensive, threatening, abusive, hateful, inflammatory, fraudulent, or promote s*xually explicit material, illegal activity or violence.

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Contain any content that St Vincent’s considers inappropriate.

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That this content is available to the public, and that St Vincent’s may use this information for internal and external communications, promotions and fundraising purposes.

Other participants may use your posted information beyond the control of St Vincent’s and if you do not wish to have your content used, published, copied and/or reprinted, please do not post it on any of our social media channels.

Breach of guidelines St Vincent’s Health Australia reserves the right to determine, at our discretion, whether contributions to our social media channels breach our policies. We reserve the right to hide or remove comments at our discretion that are made on our channels, as well as block users who do not follow these guidelines, or the guidelines of the social media platform.

If St Vincent’s is made aware of any comments made on our social media channels, or outside St Vincent’s social media channels, that are threatening, unlawful or abusive, and relate to or involve St Vincent’s; we will investigate this material and take any action necessary to protect our organisation, our hospitals, staff and patients and their families.

We also reserve the right to share any content with law enforcement authorities for investigation as we deem to be necessary, or as is required by law.

Members of our social media channels who perpetuate views that are contradicted by evidence-based research and global health expertise, and whose content or behaviour poses a threat to public and individual health, will be immediately blocked. This includes participants who harass other users with incorrect medical information.

Hours of Operation & Monitoring: St Vincent’s continuously monitors and responds to posts and questions on St Vincent’s social media channels, however we may not always be able to respond to all posts or answer online requests for information in a timely manner, particularly outside of normal business hours.

If the matter is a medical emergency please attend your nearest Emergency Department or call 000 immediately. If the matter is not urgent please consider visiting your GP or calling 13HEALTH.

St Vincent’s Health Australia Employees: All St Vincent’s staff and employees must follow our St Vincent’s Social Media Policy when posting on social media at all times.

Contact: Should you have any questions about this social media channel please contact svphn.enquiries@svha.org.au