Western Sydney Health Check

About Western Sydney Health Check

Hear from leading healthcare experts in Western Sydney and the patients they're treating. Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) provides healthcare to the people of western Sydney at Westmead, Blacktown, Mount Druitt, Auburn and Cumberland hospitals. Proudly produced by WSLHD.

Publisher

Western Sydney Local Health District staff

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Mar 2020

Latest episode

17 Nov 2025

Latest episodes

42 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Nov 2025

   Dying well: Ending the taboo around death and palliative care

   +++Trigger warning+++ In this conversation, we talk openly about dying, grief, and palliative care. If these topics are sensitive or painful for you, please take care while listening. Palliative Care can be thought of as a taboo topic but how and why should we can change this mentality? Western Sydney Local Health District's, Director of Supportive and Palliative Care, Sally Greenaway joins us to discuss. In this episode, Dr Greenaway will explain what palliative care truly is — n...

2. 

   14 Nov 2025

   Expecting with Diabetes? Don’t try It without this expert’s advice

   Trigger warning: This podcast discusses pregnancy loss. In this latest episode in The Pulse’s diabetes series, we’re exploring diabetes in pregnancy. I’m joined by an expert in the field Westmead Hospital's Doctor Suja Padmanabhan from Western Sydney Local Health District. (Expecting with Diabetes? Don’t try It without this expert’s advice - Diabetes series, Episode 2) In this podcast, listeners will learn what it really takes to plan a healthy pregnancy while living with diabetes. Suja expla...

3. 

   14 Nov 2025

   The youth diabetes revolution: Inside the clinic changing lives

   In this latest episode in The Pulse’s diabetes series, we’re exploring diabetes in young adults. I’m joined by two experts in the field Jane-Holmes Walker and Nicholas Grech from Western Sydney Local Health District. (The youth diabetes revolution: Inside the clinic changing lives - Diabetes series, Episode 3) In this episode, we sit down with Jane Holmes-Walker and Nicholas Grech, two leaders in youth-focused diabetes care, for an inside look at what really happens at the groundbreaking Youn...

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

3,534,530

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Podcast Authority Score: 38 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

29

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

30

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Guest appearances

Books guests

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