A series of factsheets that graphically presented the results of the 2020 National Carer Survey in six categories: Young carers, rural and regional carers, carers in paid work, LGBTQI+ carers, CALD carers and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander carers. Each factsheet took a few hours to produce as the pie charts and bar charts had…
Sydney Local Health District offers free flu vaccinations to all staff members every year. In 2013, influenza caused 119 admissions to intensive care units and 35 deaths in NSW. In 2014 SLHD launched a campaign to boost influenza vaccination rates among staff members. The aim was to increase the uptake of the vaccine by at…
The Community Visitors Scheme is of those great volunteer programs that cost hardly anything yet the payout for all those involved is significant and lasting. The scheme arranges visits between bilingual volunteers and elderly people from various multicultural backgrounds who are often isolated and lonely in nursing homes and aged care facilities. In 2014 I…
The Centre for Education and Workforce Development (CEWD) is the organisation that provides staff training and education courses for the South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD) and the Sydney Local Health District (SLHD). In 2013 the two districts, who originally shared a lot of the same resources and organisations, like CEWD, completed the split and…
For the last couple of years I’ve done the Sydney Local Health District’s (SLHD) Year in Review documents. They have a very clear idea of how they want them to look – in particular they like the magazine style layout rather than a corporate document style. The books are usually around 36 pages, and because…
Of all the events I’ve designed for, the most consistent and largest is the HealthShare NSW Expo. In 2010 there was a lot of confusion and ignorance among our customers of what services the organisation provided to NSW public hospitals. The communications department decided that the best way to promote HealthShare NSW (then Health Support Services) was…
In 2009 the Clinical Excellence Commission implemented a new patient observation chart system for use throughout the NSW public hospital system. The new charts use yellow and red coloured ‘danger’ zones, on the upper and lower portions of the chart, to show if a patient is deteriorating over time and to prompt nursing staff to initiate…
This was one of my favourite projects that I did while at the NSW Department of Health. In 2008 the department implemented a free vision screening program for kids in NSW when they are four years old, before they start school. The program aims to pick up any vision problems that kids might have and correct them…
This was a project that I worked on in 2008 at the NSW Department of Health to help promote the recently published Clinical Guidelines for Nursing and Midwifery Practice in NSW. In particular, the project officer wanted to highlight the guidelines for nurses working with patients with drug and alcohol issues and what care they…
One of the first projects I worked on when I first started as a graphic designer at the NSW Department of Health in 2007 was the Physical Health Care for Mental Health Consumer guidelines. The policy document outlined the benefits of exercise for people living with a mental health condition. The brief was to design…
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