The Acute Rapid Response Team
Right care at the right time Elderly residents across northern Sydney will soon have access to more tailored, timely healthcare in the comfort of their own homes, thanks to the expansion of geriatric urgent care services across the district. Three geriatric outreach services in Northern Sydney Local Health District are expanding meaning patients can be seen by specialist aged care nurses and doctors, who can attend theperson’s home. The expansion will help ease pressure on northern Sydney’s busy emergency departments by extending the hours of operation to 8am to 8pm, seven days a week. Up to 3100 more residents a year can avoid having to go to a hospital emergency department, receiving care in the comfort of their own home instead. Premier Chris Minns and Health Minister Ryan Park toured Royal North Shore Hospital’s emergency department and met with staff before announcing the $124 million geriatric outreach service expansion, which include
services also based in south-eastern and south-western Sydney. James Hardy, Geriatrician and Head of Department at Royal North Shore Hospital, is incredibly proud to be part of the Acute Rapid Response Team which is part of the district’s geriatric outreach services. “We’re able to see patients improve their health and stay well and happy at home,” said James. “Our focus is to treat older patients in the most appropriate place. At times that might be in hospital, but often it’s at home where they feel safe and are the only patient in the room.” The service allows patients to be seen to by specialist aged care nurses and doctors, who can attend the person’s home and provide a comprehensive assessment and treatment. Patients are referred by a GP or residential aged care facility, Healthdirect, and NSW Ambulance. Foundation, the Kolling and the University of Sydney. Professor Mark Molloy, Lawrence Penn Chair of Bowel Cancer Research has welcomed the new technology, saying it will allow researchers to profile gene and protein expression in specific cells of complex tissues such as tumours, brain tissue, liver and kidney cells. “This will in turn, provide valuable new information about how cells function in disease and health,” he said. “It’s wonderful to have this equipment which will help us understand how disease develops.
Technology giving our researchers the edge Impressive new infrastructure at the Kolling Institute is set to drive progress with research into cancer and neuroscience.
The equipment includes a digital spatial profiling system, which is regarded as one of the most exciting technological advances globally in the investigation of tissues. The $525,000 instrument has been made possible following a LIEF grant through the Australian Research Council to Professor Mark Molloy. A new laser capture microscope has also been installed which will allow researchers to capture specific tissue regions for sequencing and analysis. It was funded by the Ian Potter
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