CheckUP Australia

19/10/2026

Thank you, CORES Queensland, for facilitating important su***de intervention training, mental health, and self-care workshops in Cooktown! Mental health and wellbeing matters. 🫶

We are proud to be your partner alongside Health Workforce Queensland and Northern Queensland PHN and the OneNQ program.

We had a fantastic time in Cooktown working alongside CheckUP Australia to bring local voices and perspectives to the forefront!

The sessions brought local voices together to explore ways to support and grow the workforce, with a focus on OneNQ’s key priorities: workforce planning, development, wellbeing, attraction, recruitment and retention. 💡

18/10/2026

Thinking about registering as an NDIS provider but worried about the application process?

Come and join our free online session on Thursday 29 October. From 10am to 12pm we'll be discussing the steps before, during and after hitting the submit button on your own application.

For full details of the event visit the registration page: https://events.humanitix.com/applying-to-be-a-registered-ndis-provider-_online-learning

After the session you'll have a clearer picture of what the whole process is like and you'll also walk away with the - Applying to Become a Registered NDIS Provider micro-credential.

We hope to see you there

16/10/2026

🎆 Thank you Co. Habitat Co-Working Space for recognising and celebrating our 6 Year Anniversary! We appreciate the people at Co-Co. Habitat Co-Working Space, the community, location, and facilities you offer!

16/10/2026

👏 CheckUP is proud to be a sponsor at the Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council Awards for Excellence which will recognise the people driving programs, services and partnerships who are making a meaningful difference across Queensland’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled health sector.

Follow Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council for more!

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👏 Thank you to our 2026 QAIHC Awards for Excellence sponsors!

The QAIHC Awards for Excellence recognise the deadly people, services and partnerships making a meaningful difference across Queensland’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled health sector.

We’re proud to acknowledge the organisations supporting this year’s awards:

🏆 Member of the Year: Lowitja Institute
🏆 Leader of the Year: Griffith University
🏆 Innovation Excellence: Deloitte
🏆 Partnership Excellence: Health and Wellbeing Queensland
🏆 Patient Satisfaction and Service Excellence: CheckUP

Your support helps us celebrate the leadership, innovation, collaboration and commitment strengthening our sector and improving health outcomes for our communities.

Thank you for standing alongside QAIHC and helping shine a light on the outstanding achievements of our members and sector leaders.

We look forward to celebrating together at the 2026 QAIHC Awards for Excellence on 21 October! ✨

15/10/2026

Igniting connections in Cairns 🔥 On 10–11 October, Health Workforce Queensland (HWQ) hosted OneNQ Ignite in Cairns, bringing together health professionals, students and early career graduates from across northern Queensland.

The event was part of OneNQ, an NQPHN-funded workforce initiative that CheckUP delivers jointly with HWQ. Our Health Industry Workforce Advisor (IWA), Alina Khalid, was there joining conversations on workforce wellbeing, peer support, and looking after the people who look after others.

Want to get involved?

➡️ Explore upcoming OneNQ events at https://nqphn.com.au/events-education/onenq/

🫶 Follow Health Workforce Queensland and Northern Queensland PHN for more about OneNQ initiative.

14/10/2026

🌞 A Standout Health Services “Sip and Screen” event attracted 53 attendees across the Central West communities of Windorah, Jundah, Birdsville, Boulia, Bedourie, and Stonehedge. The event brought together a diabetes educator, podiatrist, clinical lead, and counsellor in one place for the day, providing coordinated access to a range of health services.

🔶 Three organisations travelled together on a CheckUP funded charter: Diabetes Australia, Lives Lived Well and NWRH. This collaboration provided a valuable opportunity for services that would not otherwise have the chance to travel together, helping to strengthen referral pathways, increase awareness of available supports, and foster stronger connections between providers to improve outcomes for local communities.

🛬 As CheckUP’s Eye and Ear Surgery Manager, Amber Hanks, said, “The plane was never really about transportation. It was about building relationships and referral pathways between organisations that don't normally travel together.”

💯 This is just one of the conversations and collaborations highlighted at our latest Queensland Primary Health Care Network event.

Check out more here: https://checkup.org.au/news-publications/latest-news/qphcn-highlights/

14/10/2026

☕️ CheckUP was delighted to connect with the Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council (QAIHC) team over morning tea during Queensland Mental Health Week 2026.

The event provided an opportunity to reflect on the importance of community, connection and wellbeing. Attendees shared what supports their wellbeing, exchanged positive affirmations, and added their messages and artwork to the community media wall.

Although the week has passed, staying connected and supporting one another remains important.

🩷 We'd love to hear from you. What's your favourite affirmation?

📷️ Check out images from the morning tea.

Thank you for joining us! Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council 🧁

14/10/2026

✈️ When the nearest town is hours away, care has to come to you. The Royal Flying Doctor Service Queensland Section connects people in rural and remote communities with emergency and primary health care.

We're proud to have them as a CheckUP member and grateful for the work they do across the state. 🙏

Learn more about Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. https://www.flyingdoctor.org.au/qld/

13/10/2026

🔶 Queensland has the world's highest rates of skin cancer but for those living in our rural and remote communities, they have limited access to GPs with specialist training in skin cancer medicine.

🔶 The Skin Cancer Early Detection (SCED) program was developed to address this inequity through outreach clinics and upskilling opportunities. Cathie Gillan from Queensland Health highlighted there's no value in rolling into town, telling someone they have a problem, and leaving. The SCED program is designed to diagnose and treat, not just screen and refer.

🔶 Since mid-2023 the program has delivered 187 clinics in 18 communities across Central Queensland, Mackay, Townsville and the North West and South West HHS regions. Our providers have screened 4,060 patients and provided 4,140 occasions of service. Of those, 1,199 patients received pre-cancer treatment and 774 had histologically confirmed cancers - that's roughly one in five patients.

🔶 Forty-six percent of patients reported they'd have to travel two or more hours for an equivalent service, and around a quarter said they simply wouldn't have had a skin check at all.

🔶 Behind each patient number is a person who was able to receive skin cancer early detection care in their home community with friends and family nearby.

➡️ Read more stories about accessible healthcare closer to home that came in up our recent health services access conversation: https://checkup.org.au/news-publications/latest-news/qphcn-highlights/