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Australia Day 2023 Public Holiday Notice 12 January 2023 PathWest collection centres will be closed on Thursday 26 January for the Australia Day public holiday. Our regular opening hours resume on Friday 27 January. The PathWest team wishes you Happy Australia Day! -
Congratulations to our Employee of the Season - Djilba 07 October 2022 Congratulations to Employee of the Season (Djilba) winner – Rebecca Wake, A/General Manager COVID-19 Pre-Analytical Operations – COVID-19 Command. Rebecca has been with PathWest for many years as a medical scientist and then later stepped into senior roles in charge of a number of the laboratories. When COVID-19 struck, Rebecca assumed the responsibility of overseeing pre-analytical operations and guided the team (of up to 250 staff) through some truly challenging days.Rebecca is somebody who goes about her role with grace and commitment, and no matter how busy she is, she always has time to support and guide her staff and make them feel valued. She strives to deliver excellent outcomes and through leading by example she inspires her team to do the same. Rebecca more than encompasses the six PathWest strategic pillars, but in particular engaging, developing and inspiring ... -
Congratulations to our Employee of the Season - Djeran 29 April 2022 Congratulations to our Employee of the Season (Djeran) winner – Jane Moody, Administration Officer, PathWest Security, based at QEII. Jane was nominated by a lab colleague for going above and beyond to ensure lab staff have access to PPE, hand sanitiser and clean gowns to perform their work safely. Jane also logs and follows up maintenance requests and generally ensures facilities are maintained and repaired as required. The nominator said; “She does all this with a smile and enthusiastic attitude at all times, often while juggling other priorities”. The panel of judges were impressed with Jane’s care and concern for colleagues and ultimately patients, she is professional and ensures traceability and accountability is maintained at all time. She treats all internal and external customers with respect and “walks-the-walk when it comes to the PathWest values&r... -
COVIDTestWA is now live 27 April 2022 COVIDTestWA is asafe and securepre-registration system that enables upfront capture of patient information used across the public PCR testing process in WA. People presenting to our public PCR testing clinics can pre-register their detailsby scanning the QR code displayed on site or via this link. Completing COVIDTestWA online won’t let you skip the queue but the more people who complete it the faster everyone’s sample will be collected and processed, and it reduces direct individual patient contact times at the COVID clinics. COVIDTestWAwill be available across all public metropolitan COVID-19 testing clinics -Murdoch drive through andSir Charles Gairdner Hospital are live now, with Rockingham going live this week and Royal Perth Hospital, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Armadale, Joondalup and Midlandclinicsin the weeks after that. The system reduces manual effort and data entry... -
PathWest Star of the Future - Sam Neeling 27 April 2022 Samuel Neeling, Medical Scientist, Immunology, is one of the successful recipients of the PathWestEarly Career Research Awards that were awarded in February 2022. Sam's research project will be investigating “In-vitro measurement of the neutralising effect of anti-GMCSF or anti-IFN-γ antibodies on STAT phosphorylation using patient serum and donor peripheral blood mononuclear cells”. Sam explains his project as, “Cytokines and Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription (STAT) proteins are important for mediating cellular immune function. GM-CSF and Interferon γ (IFN- γ) are crucial cytokines that act on monocytes via the JAK/STAT pathway. Anti- IFN-γ antibodies are a known cause of adult onset immunodeficiency and anti-GM-CSF antibodies are associated with Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis (PAP). Autoantibodies against these cytokines have bee...
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25/03/2024