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Australia Day Honours
January 31, 2020With the recent announcement of the 2020 Australia Day Honours, the Eye and Ear was delighted to learn that three of this year’s awardees have connections to the Eye and Ear: Professor Robert Shepherd AM, Dr Catherine Brown and Dr David Workman....
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Information for the public - novel coronavirus
January 31, 2020As Victoria now have confirmed cases of Coronavirus we would ask that all patients, carers and visitors who may have been exposed to the virus and are due to come into the hospital for an appointment to follow the Department of Health and Human Services...
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Staying safe in the smoke
January 7, 2020The smoke from bushfires across Victoria and New South Wales continues to drift across Melbourne. Even looking at this week's CBD skyline, is a reminder that our country is undergoing extreme challenges. For those fortunate to be out of the fire...
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Planned works on Albert and Lansdowne St
December 23, 2019As part of Towards Zero, Vic Roads and TAC Victoria are creating a safer cycling pathway at the Albert street and Lansdowne intersection in East Melbourne. The protected intersection will make it safer and easier for people riding between the CBD and...
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New specialist eye clinic for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients opens
December 18, 2019Thursday 12 December marked the official opening of a new specialist eye clinic for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients as a partnership between The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital and the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service (VAHS). This...
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Think before you ink, the hidden risk tattoos may pose to your vision
December 5, 2019As they grow in popularity, The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital’s Associate Professor Ehud Zamir and Associate Professor Lyndell Lim say that there is a hidden risk to our vision when getting a tattoo that too many Australians are unaware of...
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Read the 2019 Quality Account
October 31, 2019The Quality Account gives is a publication that gives insight into our ongoing commitment to the delivery of patient centred care.
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2018-19 Annual Review out now
October 24, 2019The Eye and Ear's Annual Review publication which shares stories of key successes over the past year.
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New CEO for The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital
August 23, 2019Brendon Gardner has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital. Brendon has had a career in Health Service Management for 22 years, holding Executive positions for the past 12 years. His most recent position has...
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2019 Community Board Meeting: Living with Glaucoma
May 20, 2019On Wednesday we held our Community Board Meeting which this year incorporated a Community Eye Health Forum focusing on Glaucoma. The event was very successful in mobilizing a room full of patients, donors, staff and interested community members. Glaucoma...
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Minister of Health opens new genetic eye disease clinic
May 14, 2019The Minister of Health Jenny Mikakos marked the official opening of a new clinic to help treat patients with genetic eye conditions at The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital
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Cataract information in multiple languages
March 19, 2019We have released a suite of new Cataract Information videos in multiple languages on our Patient Info Hub page. Narrated by Dr Anton van Heerden, Head of Surgical Ophthalmology services, the videos outline what to expect during a cataract procedure. The...
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Read the Reconciliation Action Plan
February 27, 2019Our 2019-2020 Reconciliation Action Plan is available to view online now. It is an accessible PDF suitable for screen readers and those using visual aids. It details the Eye and Ear's planned actions towards closing the eye and ENT health gap for...
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Graduate Nursing Program now open
February 22, 2019Applications for our 2020 Graduate Nurse Program are now open and will close on Friday 19 July 2019. To apply for a position at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, you must do both of the following: Participate in the Victorian Nursing Computer...
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2017-18 Annual Review out now
December 6, 2018The 2017-18 Annual Review is now available online and on stands throughout the hospital. The Annual Review shares stories of key successes at the Eye and Ear over the past year and covers our people, our patients and our research and training.
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Read the 2018 Quality Account
November 30, 2018The Eye and Ear's 2018 Quality Account is available now online. The Quality Account gives insight into our ongoing commitment to the delivery of patient centred care. It highlights the many improvement initiatives we have undertaken in the past 12...
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Staff Excellence Awards and Annual General Meeting
November 14, 2018Last night the 2018 Excellence Awards and Annual General Meeting were held at the Park Hyatt hotel. Over 80 staff and guests were in attendance to celebrate and reflect on our many achievements from the past year and to recognise outstanding members of...
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Congratulation to Professor Graeme Clark for winning another prestigious prize
October 17, 2018Congratulations to Professor Graeme Clark, AC who is the joint winner of the prestigious Shambaugh Prize. This prize recognizes the work he and his co-recipients Ingeborg Hochmair and Claude-Henri Chouard have done with cochlear implants. The Shambaugh...
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Eye and Ear Celebrates Australia's Oldest Cochlear Implant Recipient
September 27, 2018Mrs Dulcie Selleck was all smiles despite the unusual location of her birthday. Dulcie celebrated her 100th birthday at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital with the University of Melbourne’ s Department of Otolaryngology and Cochlear Ltd. She...
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Check out our Patient Information Hub
September 21, 2018At the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, we believe that education is key. That's why we launched the patient information hub which includes information about conditions and treatments as well as general hospital facts. There are more than a 150...
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Community Hearing Loss Forum 2018
April 11, 2018Thanks to everyone who joined us for our 2018 Community Hearing Loss Forum. More than 60 people attended including staff board members, volunteers, consumer representatives and members of the community. The forum looked at hearing loss in people over the...
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Geelong Cochlear Care Centre opens
March 1, 2018The Geelong Cochlear Care Centre, a collaboration between The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Cochlear Ltd and the Victorian Government, was officially opened this week by Health Minister Jill Hennessy. The centre is Victoria's first regional...
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Virtual reality eye surgery training program begins at Eye and Ear
February 14, 2018Virtual reality is commonly used to train aviation pilots, now the Eye and Ear is using state-of-the-art virtual reality simulators to train the next generation of eye surgeons. The Eyesi Surgical simulators allow ophthalmology trainees to learn highly...
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Congratulations to the newly appointed Peter Howson Research Fellow
February 2, 2018Congratulations to Audiologist Dr Caitlin Barr, the newly appointed Peter Howson Research Fellow. Through her fellowship research project ‘Who is talking, who is listening, and who is hearing?’ Optimising hearing help-seeking pathways starting...
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Eye and Ear launches multilingual hospital information lines
January 15, 2018We are proud to launch new patient information lines for people using our services which are available in six languages - English, Cantonese, Greek, Italian, Mandarin, and Vietnamese. The hospital infolines provide our consumers with helpful information...
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Eye and Ear excellence awards
November 24, 2017Eye and Ear staff were recognised in the 2017 TREVERs award ceremony last night, which was attended by over 200 staff and guests. Just as the OSCARs is the award ceremony for the Hollywood Academy Awards, the TREVERs is our night of nights to present our...
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Summer 2017 Sight + Sound out now!
November 22, 2017The final edition of Sight + Sound for 2017 is now available online and on stands around the hospital. Read it in full or story by story. Stories include the Eye and Ear's cochlear implant milestones, the new state-of-the-art 3D technology which was...
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Read the 2017 Quality Account
November 10, 2017The Eye and Ear's 2017 Quality Account is available now online. The Quality Account gives insight into our ongoing commitment to the delivery of patient centred care. It highlights the many improvement initiatives we have undertaken in the past 12 months,...
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Eye and Ear named Health Service of the Year
October 27, 2017The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital has been named the Premier’s Large Health Service of the Year at the prestigious Victorian Public Healthcare Awards. As a smaller, specialist hospital, being recognised in this category is a tremendous honour...
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Eye and Ear warns to protect eyes from swooping birds
October 18, 2017The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital is warning people to protect their eyes from swooping birds following a number of presentations in recent days to the Eye and Ear’s Emergency Department with eye injuries from swooping birds. Emergency...
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Statement on marriage equality
October 13, 2017The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital Executive and Board support marriage equality. The Eye and Ear Executive and Board believes in inclusion, supports diversity, and recognises the rights of the LGBTIQ community and believes all Australians should...
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2016-17 Annual Review out now
September 14, 2017The 2016-17 Annual Review is now available online and on stands throughout the hospital. The Annual Review shares stories of key successes at the Eye and Ear over the past year and covers our people, our patients and our research and training.
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Read the spring 2017 Sight + Sound
September 8, 2017The spring 2017 edition of Sight + Sound is out now. Read it in full or story by story. Features include writer Alan Williams' cataract surgery experience, how we've been helping a Myanmar hospital, our work with consumers, and a profile on one of our...
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4000th cochlear implant at the Eye and Ear
July 24, 2017Today we celebrated two significant milestones with a lunchtime event to mark the 4000th cochlear implant surgery and the 1000th child to receive a cochlear implant at the hospital. Vivienne Jones, who at 77 is the recipient of the 4000th cochlear...
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Our 2017 Community Board Meeting
June 19, 2017On Tuesday 18 July we held our annual Community Board Meeting. This year’s event focused on how we provide safe and quality care to all our patients. We heard about range of perspectives, initiatives and successes relating to quality and safety...
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Read the new Sight + Sound
June 19, 2017The Winter edition of Sight + Sound is out now, read it in full or story by story. Stories include seven-year-old Isaac’s successful eye surgery, a generous bequest in honour of Associate Professor Mark Daniell and consumer Pam West’s profile.
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Volunteer Week 2017
May 9, 2017Running from 8–14 May 2017, National Volunteer Week is an annual celebration of the generous contribution of Australia’s 6 million volunteers. This year Volunteering Australia celebrates the theme Give Happy, Live Happy which promotes research...
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Patient Experience Week 2017
April 26, 2017L-R: Consumer Liaison Officer Deb Hailes, Brooklyn with mum Tenila and CEO Mark Petty. This week we are celebrating Patient Experience Week. Your feedback lets us know what works well and helps us identify areas for improvement. Patient centred care is at...
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Volunteering at the Eye and Ear
March 14, 2017Would you like to lead a happier and healthier life? Sleep better and contribute to a longer life? The answer isn’t a magic pill but it is more simple than you might imagine: volunteering. Like most not-for-profit organisations, The Royal...
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Read the latest Sight + Sound 2017
March 10, 2017The Autumn edition of Sight + Sound is out now, available to read online. Stories include patient Andrew's experience of extreme dizziness and successful treatment at the hospital's Balance Disorders and Ataxia Service, the Eye and Ear's...
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Ten tips to protect your eyes
December 21, 2016Keep your eyes safe this silly season! The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital is urging people to take care this festive season, reminding everyone on the importance of proper eye protection, whether at home or at work, due to the prevalence of serious...
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Read the latest Sight + Sound
December 9, 2016The summer edition of Sight + Sound is out now, available to read online. Stories include Dr Tim Williams and his experience of a successful surgery for his detached retina, and a generous donation that helped purchase a new Advanced Life Saving Manikin...
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Read the latest Quality Account
December 5, 2016The Eye and Ear's 2016 Quality Account is now available online. Previously titled the Quality of Care, this report focuses on the quality and safety of our care and services, as well showcasing some key initiatives and patient stories from the past 12...
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Recognising our staff
November 11, 2016On November 10, the Eye and Ear held the 2016 TREVERS, incorporating the Annual General Meeting and annual staff Excellence Awards. Over 100 staff, board members, representatives from community and partner organisations, patient ambassadors and donors,...
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Car parking for Eye and Ear patients and visitors available from $5 per hour
September 16, 2016Eye and Ear patients and visitors can now benefit from discounted car parking rates at our Eye and Ear on the Park site at St Andrews Place, East Melbourne. Parking is from $5 per hour and is available to Eye and Ear patients and visitors of both sites....
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World first eyeConnect unveiled at Frankston Hospital
August 12, 2016In a world first, The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (the Eye and Ear) today unveiled at Frankston Hospital revolutionary new technology to connect patients who present at an Emergency Department with eye injuries or conditions in outer...
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Introducing Eye and Ear on the Park
July 29, 2016From Monday 29 August 2016, The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital’s (the Eye and Ear) outpatient clinics and day surgery will be provided at a second site, Eye and Ear on the Park. Located in the previous Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre on St...
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The new ED in pictures
May 27, 2016The Eye and Ear’s new Emergency Department saw the first patients come through the doors Tuesday morning. Last week, the Minister for Health, Jill Hennessy officially opened the new department. Acting CEO Dr Caroline Clarke says it was rewarding to...
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Eye and Ear delivers new Emergency Department
May 16, 2016The first stage of The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital’s new Emergency Department was officially opened today by the Minister for Health, Jill Hennessy. From Tuesday 24 May, patients will be treated in the new Emergency Department, which will...
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Provide your feedback on our Strategic Plan
February 1, 2016The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital is in the process of reviewing our Strategic Plan and is seeking your feedback. Our current strategic plan was developed in 2013 and expires in 2018. Many of the key actions, aims and objectives have been completed...
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Minister for Health launches new glaucoma clinic
December 17, 2015The Minister for Health Jill Hennessy today announced a new glaucoma clinic will be established as a partnership between The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital and the Australian College of Optometry. The clinic, for the management of patients with...
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We're seeking your feedback
November 4, 2015The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital recently drafted the Partnering with Consumers and Community Plan 2016-19 and is seeking your feedback. The plan joins together the goals and activities that support the hospital’s commitment to high quality,...
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Eye and Ear launches art collection
August 28, 2015Over 70 patients, staff and community members recently attended The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital's art collection launch. The Eye and Ear is looking to build a quality art collection for the newly redeveloped hospital to improve the patient...
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Dizziness and vertigo forum attracts big numbers
March 4, 2015Dr David Szmulewicz and Tamar Black The Head of the Eye and Ear’s Balance Disorders and Ataxia Service, Dr David Szmulewicz, presented last week at a forum on dizziness and vertigo at the City of Glen Eira with over 120 people attending. The free...
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Cutting-edge technology helps Eye and Ear patients
November 5, 2014The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital has officially launched the Gandel Philanthropy Balance Disorders Diagnostics, an area dedicated to a new balance disorder diagnostic and management system. The room houses a state-of-the-art Epley Omniax System....
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GP Referrals and Primary Care Guidelines
November 5, 2014To help ensure that the patients that are most in need are seen in a timely manner and to reduce patient waiting times at the hospital, we have developed a new set of referral guidelines to assist GPs in determining whether or not a patient can be treated...