A free pilot program to help new and expectant fathers through the physical, emotional and mental challenges of parenthood is being rolled out in the Northern NSW region.

Patients needing major joint replacements will be able to rest easy in their own beds sooner thanks to a new pilot program at Grafton Base Hospital.

The Mid-Richmond Neighbourhood Centre is holding weekly skate workshops for girls this term, as part of a project to motivate teenage girls to increase their physical activity.

North Coast Public Health Unit is urging people with respiratory conditions to take caution, with high air pollution levels in some areas of Northern NSW this week as a result of high winds transporting dust and smoke from hazard reduction burns…

No new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in residents of the Northern NSW Local Health District since 25 July, and the total number of cases remains at 58.

There are two patients with COVID-19 being cared for at Lismore Base Hospital. One patient, a man in his 60s, is ventilated in Intensive Care, while the other patient, a woman in her 60s, is in a stable condition on the ward.

This DonateLife Week (26 July - 2 August), people in Northern NSW are being urged to register as organ and tissue donors and talk to their loved ones about their decision to become a donor.

Byron Central Hospital fever clinic has confirmed two new positive COVID-19 cases following testing of a couple aged in their 60s who presented yesterday.

Patients in two small rural health facilities in Northern NSW Local Health District have given staff a huge tick of approval, with 84 percent rating the care and treatment they received as ‘very good’ – the highest result in NSW.

One case of COVID-19 has been confirmed in the last 24 hours in the Northern NSW Local Health District (NNSWLHD).  This brings the total cases to 56, as at 8pm Wednesday, 15 July.