In what was literally a one-in-a-million match and a first for Western Australia, two Fiona Stanley Hospital patients each received a kidney transplanted from the one interstate donor.

Cardiologists and radiation oncologists from Fiona Stanley Hospital and GenesisCare have become the first in Western Australia and only the second in Australia to use radiation therapy to treat a patient with heart disease.

Fiona Stanley Fremantle Hospitals Group Infection Prevention and Management Coordinator, Ann Whitfield, has answered the call for experts to support Victoria’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Older West Australians are being encouraged to keep active to avoid a fall following a surge in hip fractures in the wake of the COVID-19 lockdown.