1. Name: Gary Abbott 2. Age: 65 3. Have you always lived in FNQ? If not, where did you come from and how long have you been here? I was born in Canberra and came to...
Year: 2022
Crab & prawn Thai soup
Ingredients: three cups chicken stock, three stalks lemon grass (crushed with back of your knife), six thin slices galangal ( can be substituted with 1 tbsp crushed ginger), four kaffir lime leaves- torn in half...
Fundraisers answer call
INCREASING demand for treatment of breast cancer and advanced skin cancer, prompted the call to fundraise for Gamma Detection Probes through the BDO Arrow Experience. Cairns Hospital plastic surgeon Dr Kristian...
FNQ health research boost
MORE than $110,000 has been donated to health researchers in the region by the Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation, raising the Foundation’s charitable grants to more than $250,000 in the last two years. ...
FNQ nurses awarded
A CAIRNS Hospital nurse who goes above and beyond for older patients, and a Mareeba midwife whose expert advice is regularly sought-after, have received the top awards in nursing and midwifery. Intake referral clinical...
Donor becomes patient
When Cheryl Campbell bought tickets in a raffle last year, she never expected to end up using the equipment she contributed to. While Mrs Campbell knew she had a heart condition for many years, the rare pulmonary arterial...
Limbering up for health
Walkers limbered up to take on the Arrows of Mt Whitfield in June to raise funds for increased diagnostic services. Organiser of the BDO Arrow Experience, the Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation, has revealed the...
Food Service Operations Manager
The Far North Hospital Foundation is the most prominent local charity in the Cairns region and raises funds to improve equipment and facilities at the Cairns Hospital and the other regional hospitals. We exist to achieve our vision...
Expressions of Interest
Non-Executive Volunteer Director About Us Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation is a non-profit charitable organisation that supports Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service, Torres and Cape Hospital and...
25 years to celebrate
Cairns and Far North Queensland will celebrate 25 years of wonderful achievement by their Hospital Foundation and its thousands of volunteers, donors and supporters working for their community across the region. ...
Patient thanks riders
Thelrina Akene woke up at her home on Yam Island recently and couldn’t walk. She and her mum Sandi were transferred via helicopter to Thursday Island Hospital for a series of medical tests. Fast forward a few weeks...
Community rallies for staff
HARD working health staff in Tully now have access to free meals for those times a shift goes longer than expected. Through the Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation’s “Feed our Health Heroes”...
Sale ‘generates’ donation
MORE than $11,000 has been donated to the Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation by North Queensland based construction company, BESIX Watpac. BESIX Watpac donated the funds from the sale of replaced Cairns Hospital...
Mareeba heroes thanked
Hard working health staff in Mareeba have been gifted meals to help them deal with COVID-19 related challenges. Through the Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation’s “Feed our Health Heroes” campaign,...
Healy helps heroes
A LOCAL MP has put his hand in his pocket to support the region’s Health Heroes. Member for Cairns Michael Healy has donated $1000 to the Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation’s Health Heroes campaign and...
Help feed our Health Heroes
AS health staff bear the brunt of FNQ’s COVID pressure, donors are stepping up to help health heroes feel the love. The Northern Frontier Foundation is the first major donor to the Far North Queensland Hospital...
Grooms give to charity
A NEWLY married couple have channelled wedding gifts to the charity that supports everyone in Far North Queensland. Gregg Millett and John Tavener decided that as grooms who had everything they needed in life, they...