A hand therapy clinic is helping Gold Coast patients waiting for surgery to begin treatment and return to pain-free symptom-free full health sooner.

Gold Coast Health’s Dr John Gerrard has received a national honour for helping to establish Australia’s first ever treatment centre in an Ebola hot zone.

People with respiratory illnesses who are impacted by smoke haze from bushfires across South East Queensland are being reminded to monitor their health condition closely.

Gold Coast Health doctors are pleading with Gold Coast parents and carers struggling to soothe a crying baby to take a break and seek help.