Northern NSW Local Health District

Tina Spence started nursing training more than 40 years ago, and today she still turns up to work with a smile on her face and no regrets about her choice of profession.

NSW Health is warning people of the added risks associated with high-dose MDMA (ecstasy) pills recently seized in Northern NSW. 

With Christmas holiday celebrations underway amid a heatwave, NSW Health is warning people to avoid food poisoning, with 168 cases already reported this month.

The Mullumbimby Hospital Auxiliary has beaten Santa to the punch, dropping off dozens of hand-made teddy bears and quilts to the Byron Central Hospital.

A team led by local cancer experts has published a world-first evaluation of a revolutionary radiation therapy treatment that leaves patients cancer-free after two years.

Grafton’s Aboriginal Maternal Infant Health Service (AMIHS) is celebrating 10 years in the local community after welcoming more than 500 babies into the world. The AMIHS provides pregnancy care and early parenting support by Aboriginal Health workers and midwives for Aboriginal women or women with Aboriginal partners. Grafton AMIHS Midwife Laurel Moore said this celebration […]

From youth food gardens and cookbooks, to fitness challenges, to girls’ skateboarding sessions will soon be underway locally thanks to new seed funding grants.

People living with Parkinson’s disease in Northern NSW are set to benefit from the appointment of a specialist neurological nurse trained in the care and treatment of people with the neurodegenerative condition.

If you have been wondering how to engage kids in the world beyond their screens, Christmas offers a great opportunity to help them get up and active.

A final year Emergency Medicine trainee with our Local Health District has taken out top honours in this year’s Emergency Fellowship Clinical Exam.