A Tweed Heads grandmother-of-two, who is the recipient of a donated kidney, has shared her experience of recovery. Her story highlights DonateLife week, which raises awareness around organ donations. 

Residents are holding firm against a proposal to develop State Significant Farmland (SSF) near the Tweed Valley Hospital at Cudgen, after the Northern Regional Planning Panel (NRPP) held a public meeting on Friday 19 June around the Planning Proposal for Cudgen Connection (PP-2023-2669-Cudgen Connection).

With anecdotal stories of visitor frustration and stoushes with security staff, the Tweed Valey Hospital will at long last see more car parking spaces following the appointment of local company, Alder, to undertake works to expand car parking capacity.

Three local hospitals are included in a list of 27 across rural and regional parts of NSW to have official Safe Staffing Levels introduced in emergency departments.

For anyone who has to go to the new Tweed Valley Hospital parking is a significant problem.

It was Pat Benstead, the wife of the very first Kingscliff Station Officer, A.C Benstead who officially opened the new Kingscliff Ambulance Station yesterday. 

Around 200 hundred nurses from Tweed, Lismore, Byron Bay, Casino and Clarence Valley to highlight that NSW nurses are the lowest paid in the country. 

New equipment to help provide urgent medical care for sick babies and infants has arrived at the Tweed Valley Hospital, thanks to a generous donation to Our Kids from Tweed Community Clubs.

The NSW government is to officially open the $723.3 million Tweed Valley Hospital today after the transferral of patients to the new facility last week.

The new Tweed Valley Hospital opened on May 14 at Kingscliff and it saw its first baby born that day at 8.53pm.