Gold Coast University Hospital Trauma Service

Gold Coast Trauma Service cares for over 350 major trauma and 2,000 minor trauma patients per year. Trauma Service staff consists of Trauma Director, Deputy Director, 2 Trauma Surgeons, Trauma Fellow, Trauma Registrars, Trauma Residents, Trauma Manager/Nurse Practitioner (TNP), Trauma Nurse Navigator (TNN), Trauma Research Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC), Trauma Data System Manager CNC, Trauma Data Manager Clinical Nurse (CN) and Trauma Clinical Nurse Case Manager (TCNCM) and Allied Health team including Social Work, Occupational Therapist, and Physiotherapist.

Our Staff are patient centred, family focused and holistic in their approach. The Trauma Service team provides care to the trauma patient from time of arrival in ED and dependent on severity and need throughout the patient’s journey through OT, ICU, the Wards and Rehabilitation during their stay in hospital.

The GCUH Trauma Service is proactive in Injury prevention conducting in hospital and multi-media awareness programs such as Falls Awareness and the Prevent Alcohol and Risk-related Trauma in Youth (P.A.R.T.Y.) program. These programs involve Trauma Survivors who present their own lived experience with Trauma to better inform our population providing strategies to minimise their risk of injury.