Central West Hospital and Health Service (Central West HHS) uses social media to inform and alert the public about current and emerging health issues, and support, educate and empower Queenslanders to make healthier life choices. At this time, we maintain an official presence on the following social media platforms: Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn. These accounts are produced, maintained and monitored by the Central West HHS Communications team.
Each of these social media platforms are controlled and operated by third parties with their own privacy policies, and the Queensland Government's Privacy Policy does not apply. Follow these links to learn more about a specific privacy policy: Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
While the Central West HHS social media pages are an open forum, they are also family friendly ones, so please keep your comments polite. When contributing, do not post any material that contains:
- hate speech
- profanity, obscenity or vulgarity
- comments that could be considered prejudicial, racist or inflammatory
- nudity or offensive imagery in profile pictures
- defamation to a person or people
- name calling and/or personal attacks
- comments whose main purpose are to sell a product
- comments that infringe on copyrights
- spam comments from individuals or groups, such as the same comment posted repeatedly on one or more posts on a single profile
- personal information about you or another individuals (including identifying information, email addresses, phone numbers or private addresses)
- false representation of another individual, organisation, government or entity
- promotion of a product, business, company or organisation.
Central West HHS retains the right to remove any content that does not comply with the Comment Policy or that the Central West HHS Communications team deems inappropriate.
Violations of the Comment Policy may cause the author to be blocked from the relevant page.
Central West Hospital and Health Service employees should consult Central West HHS’ guidelines on social media before posting anything on social networking sites such as Facebook. Refer to the Social Media Procedure on the Central West HHS intranet.