From caring for our aged care clients and leading rehabilitation programs, to saving people who have overdosed from drugs, nurses are the backbone of many Uniting services. Nurses are an integral part of Uniting and always have been. Almost 100 years ago, the War Memorial hospital...
Last month, on a wet and wintery Tuesday night, more than 700 people came together at St Stephen’s Uniting Church in Sydney’s CBD. Amongst them were media, politicians and members of Uniting Church congregations. A further 5,000 people tuned in to watch online. They came to...
Wandering around the Christmas light–lit streets and baubled shopping centres of NSW and ACT, it’s easy to see that Christmas is well and truly on its way. The age-old proverb ‘tis better to give than to receive’ rings true for all of us here at...
Today, we’re celebrating the opening of the annual Art from the Heart of the Cross exhibition. This exhibition features art from clients of the Uniting Medically Supervised Injecting Centre, a service that offers a compassionate, evidence-based response to drug use. Now in its seventh year, the...
This contribution was first published in the June/July edition of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians' quarterly magazine. This morning I had an eye opening conversation with a client that has prompted me, yet again, to think about just what it is that we do here. It...
This article first appeared on Mamamia on 22 June 2016. Heroin, overdoses, needle exchanges, safe injecting centres, methadone clinics...
