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• RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSHRC) is redefining patient engagement and care through its pioneering Experience Ambassadors Program.
• This approach optimizes every aspect of the patient journey, from the quality of clinical care to the overall hospital environment.
• This focus on operational efficiency enhances patient access and demonstrates the seamless integration of technology in patient care.
• This program is a model of excellence that could inspire similar initiatives worldwide, contributing to developing higher patient engagement and care standards.

• This pioneering achievement, overcoming the significant medical challenges associated with such procedures, reinforces KFSHRC’s ability to innovate medical practices that enhance treatment outcomes and patient experiences.
• After receiving approval from the hospital’s medical committee and the patient’s family, Dr. Khaliel assembled a medical team prioritizing harmony and coordination among its members.
• This achievement marks a significant shift in heart transplant surgery.
• Dr. Majid Al Fayyad, CEO of KFSHRC, hailed this achievement as a significant advancement in heart transplantation since the historic first heart transplant performed in the 1960s.

• They often travel over land when these wetlands or farm dams dry up, or during breeding season.
• In our latest research, we attached GPS tracking devices to 20 adult eastern long-neck turtles in Armidale, New South Wales.
• Each week, we located the turtles and recorded how far they had moved, what habitat they were in, and how many fences they had encountered.

Active in agricultural lands

• Its range includes the Murray-Darling, Australia’s longest river system and most intensive agricultural area.
• Long-neck turtles are also among the most active turtles on land, often travelling kilometres to find water.
• This means they fit through fences more easily than larger eastern long-necks from other regions, or other larger turtle species.
• So, while turtle-friendly fences were abundant in our study, many of these would have been unfriendly fences for larger turtles living elsewhere.

How to make farm fences more wildlife-friendly

• Replacing millions of kilometres of farm fencing around the world is not feasible, so we recommend a range of targeted and realistic tactics.
• Species-specific wildlife gates allow wildlife such as bettongs and wombats to travel in and out of fenced areas.
• These gates can be installed in places where wildlife are most likely to encounter fences, such as wildlife corridors, rather than randomly throughout a property.

Reducing the harm of fences

• The Liberals led Labor as best on economic management by 37–26%, but this lead was reduced from 40–23% in August.
• Asked about gambling ads on TV, 51% wanted them banned entirely, 32% favoured limiting them to two per hour during live sport, and 7% backed allowing unrestricted gambling ads.
• Asked whether government should prioritise tackling sports betting or pokies, 47% said both, 12% said sports betting, 11% said pokies and 17% wanted gambling left alone.

Queensland polls indicate big LNP win

• Resolve doesn’t usually give a two-party figure, but The Poll Bludger estimated a 58–42% LNP lead from these primary votes.
• LNP leader David Crisafulli’s net likeability improved four points to +18, while Labor Premier Steven Miles’ net likeability improved only slightly to -13.
• The Redbridge poll is Labor’s best Queensland poll since March, but it would still be a thumping, and the other two polls are worse for Labor.

Wolf + Smith federal and state polls

• A national poll by the Sydney-based agency Wolf + Smith gave federal Labor a 51–49% lead over the Coalition, from primary votes of 36% Coalition, 29% Labor, 13% Greens, 6% One Nation, 11% independents and 4% others.
• Wolf + Smith also conducted polls in all states.
• The Wolf + Smith polls had similar results in NSW, Victoria and Queensland as other recent polls.
• The SA poll is the first in the state by any pollster since Labor won the 2022 state election.

Federal Essential and Morgan polls

• A national Essential poll, conducted September 4–7 from a sample of 1,132 people, had a 48–48% tie between Labor and the Coalition, including undecided voters (Labor had a 48–46% lead in late August).
• Primary votes were 35% Coalition (up two), 30% Labor (up one), 13% Greens (steady), 8% One Nation (up one), 1% UAP (steady), 8% for all Others (down three) and 5% undecided (down one).
• On the international student cap, 53% thought it was about right, 37% too high and 10% too low.
• A national Morgan poll, conducted September 2–8 from a sample of 1,703 people, gave Labor a 51–49% lead over the Coalition, a 0.5-point gain for Labor since the August 26 to September 1 Morgan poll.

Final NSW federal redistribution