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The Coffs Harbour Health Campus, which encompasses the Coffs Harbour Base Hospital (the main public hospital in the Coffs Coast region) has scored very well in a recent audit of patients by the Bureau of Health Information.

The large majority of hospital patients rated their overall care as very good or excellent and said the hospital was very organised, the nurses and staff very courteous and the rooms clean.

Read this Coffs Coast Advocate newspaper report of 28 May 2010 or download the full report from the NSW Bureau of Health Information website: Insights Into Care: Patients’ Perspectives on NSW Public Hospitals.

It’s not only the patients of the Coffs Harbour Health Campus who give it the thumbs up – doctors, nurses, specialists and allied health professionals who work there also rate it highly. Read these testimonials by healthcare professionals working in Coffs Harbour.

Find out more about the Coffs Harbour health sector and medical facilities.

In mid April 2010, it was announced that Coffs Harbour will become the first rural centre in the state to receive a magnetic resonance imaging machine (MRI) in a public hospital. The funding is part of the Federal Government’s $560 million funding of regional cancer facilities.

More than 140 students from across the region had their eyes opened to possible careers in the health sector from general practice doctors to psychiatry and nursing, thanks to a ‘Hands On Health’ seminar in Coffs Harbour.

Students from Macksville to Grafton and west to Dorrigo travelled to the Norm Jordan Pavilion at the showground for the seminar, aimed at giving people a wider choice of career paths after school.

Students spent the day in groups speaking directly with people in the profession.

“The feedback from both the presenters and the students has been really positive,” North Coast Youth Career program manager Liz Wilkins said.

“They loved it – the best thing about the day was that the kids had an opportunity to actually speak with people who are in that profession.”

The seminar was a joint effort by Federally-funded North Coast Youth Career Connections, NSW Business Chamber and the Mid North Coast Division of General Practice and funding support provided by the Economic Development Unit of Coffs Harbour City Council.

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