Calling all 🇦🇺-based health professionals, food service staff and past patients and caregivers - help us to develop quality indicators for hospital nutrition and food services! Details in link here ⬇️

Robert O'Sullivan Ed Strivens Aileen Collier Dr Monique Boord 🧠 Prof Ruth E Hubbard Alasdair MacLullich Gideon Caplan Meera agar Mark Oldham Mark Hohenberg Heidi Lindroth Stephanie Ward Ravi Bhat Kailas Roberts Jill Thistlethwaite Emily Gordon Chloe Yap Zoe Wyrko #delirium

Do you run a #headandneckcancer support group in Australia? We'd love to hear from you! Read the Information Sheet and complete the form here: redcap.link/HNC_SupportGro… ANZHNCS Julie McCrossin AM (She/Her) Denyse Whelan.

Congratulations to david carroll on a successful Frailty-ADD CRE Seed Grant Scheme outcome! 🎉

📢New paper!📢 The Eating As Treatment (EAT) intervention was previously shown to improve nutritional status, depression & quality of life in patients with head & neck cancer. This article examines the effects of the EAT intervention on 5-year mortality👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.ijro…

Have you (or your child) been a patient in an Australian hospital? We invite you to take part in our online Delphi survey to help us to select quality indicators for hospital nutrition and food services - register your interest here: redcap.health.qld.gov.au/surveys/?s=XXT…

This Thursday, the AFN is hosting an Information and Networking Evening at Customs House, Brisbane - there are still a few spots up for grabs.... register here: eventbrite.com.au/e/808430345927… #frailty #AFN #Ausfrailty #CommunityEngagement

That's a wrap, folks! Special thanks to Prof Ruth E Hubbard & Professor Sue Kurrle for their presentations and to Chandana Guha & Amber Mills for their expertise at the AFN Information Evening. Frailty affects us all, it's not just an #age thing! #actonfrailty #AFNSummit2024

Landmark study by the AFN/UQ News/Macquarie University links delirium and dementia. Our analysis of over 600k patients in NSW reveals patients with delirium had a 39% higher risk of death and 3x the risk of dementia. Emily Gordon David Ward Prof Ruth E Hubbard shorturl.at/aitA9

🔻Upcoming event Frailty and the power of connectedness Responding to frailty through social engagement and community connection 📅15th May 🕒12:00-13:00 🛜 Virtual (Zoom) 👇More info & registration afn.org.au/upcoming-event…

🎉Congratulations to AFN Research Fellow Dr Kristiana Ludlow at UQ Centre for Health Services Research who has been awarded a NHMRC Investigator Grant for the project “Improving frailty knowledge and empowering behaviour change via a co-designed Frailty Hub for healthcare consumers and caregivers” UQ Medicine

👏Congratulations to #CHSR Australian Frailty Network Research Fellow Dr Kristiana Ludlow - awarded an NHMRC Investigator Grant for work toward a co-designed #Frailty Hub for healthcare consumers + caregivers. UQ Medicine Health at UQ @UQ_news #UQresearch

Come and work with us!!!

The Health Services Research Association of AU & NZ conference invites #healthservices researchers and practitioners to share how your work is helping to shape the future of healthcare delivery. ➡️ #HSR24 Call for Abstracts deadline extended to 18 June!

Check out this PhD opportunity with an earmarked scholarship available. Would be a great opportunity for someone interested in improving hospital care, implementation science and/or digital health! Get in touch if interested!

We are seeking to appoint a Professorial Research Fellow in Clinical Trials and Health Economics to provide methodological leadership and health economics leadership to #CHSR + the newly established #UQ cLinical TRials cApability (ULTRA) program. bit.ly/3VUlZvC

🎤 AFN/UQ Centre for Health Services Research Senior Research Fellow Adrienne Young AdvAPD was interviewed by 9News Queensland about her mission to improve the food at The Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital. 🍽️ 🥦🥕🌽 UQ News UQ Medicine Health at UQ

📺My first TV appearance - equally exciting and terrifying, but it has been such a great way to generate interest in our work to improve hospital food and #nutrition through realtime patient feedback and consumer partnerships, with support of the RBWHFoundation! Dietitians Australia

✨CONGRATULATIONS✨ To UQ Dermatology Research Centre's H. Peter Soyer, #CHSR Director Monika Janda and the ACRF Melanoma Imaging & Diagnosis Centre team for winning the 2024 Aspire Scholarship Australian Museum Eureka Prizes for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research! 🙌2 of 3 other #UQ finalists also won their categories!! UQ Medicine