Metro South Health uses social media to connect and engage with staff, consumers, community members and stakeholders. At this time, we maintain an official presence on the following social media platforms: Metro South Health Facebook, Logan Hospital Facebook, Redland Hospital Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube. These accounts are produced, maintained and monitored by the Metro South Health Media and 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, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
Comment Policy
While the Metro South Health 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.
Metro South Health retains the right to remove any content that does not comply with the Comment Policy or that the Metro South Health Media and Communication team deems inappropriate.
Violations of the Comment Policy may cause the author to be blocked from the relevant page.
Metro South Health employees should consult Queensland Health’s guidelines on social media before posting anything on social networking sites such as Facebook. Refer to the Employee Code of Conduct on Social Media and the Code of Conduct for the Queensland Public Service on the Queensland Health intranet.
Complaints about social media content or comments
If you have a complaint about content or comments on Metro South Health’s social media platforms, you can:
- send a direct message on any of our social media platforms
- email us at metrosouthcomms@health.qld.gov.au.