Local MP Tariana Turia is calling for comprehensive information for the community to fully understand the implications of the removal of acute maternity and gynaecological services from Whanganui Hospital.
Bupa Care Services New Zealand has been awarded a top International Award for their efforts during the Christchurch Earthquake crisis. There are only five Chief Executive Awards given each year by Bupa International which are held in high regard by Bupa businesses around the globe. The New Zealand team won the final award under the category of ‘Living Our Values.’
Global recruitment company Robert Walters is launching a fundraising partnership with Plunket, New Zealand’s largest provider of support services for the development, health and wellbeing of children under 5.
Nearly $1.7 million will be awarded to more than 220 Pacific people who have chosen to study a health related qualification in 2012.
Eighty-eight per cent of funding ($1.5 million) will be awarded to 172 successful Pacific health workforce award recipients with $200,000 used for 50 Pacific mental health and addiction scholarships.
Warm Up Capital & Coast programme to benefit families with a high risk of respiratory and other health conditions
Up to 400 homes in Porirua, Kapiti and Wellington are in line for free retrofitted insulation courtesy of the Warm Up Capital & Coast programme and the Government’s insulation and heating programme Warm Up New Zealand: Heat Smart. Warm Up Capital & Coast is a joint venture of the Capital & Coast District Health Board (CCDHB), Autex Industries, The Insulation Company, and the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA).
Parents Centre is spearheading a community led initiative to begin to address the complex issues surrounding child poverty and poor health in New Zealand.
Waitemata DHB has not only achieved, but exceeded, the national health target of having 95% of emergency department patients admitted, discharged or transferred in six hours or less.
The DHB has focused actively on improving its performance on this target, which was achieved in spite of a massive increase in people attending the EDs over recent years.
It is time for the Government and DHBs to listen to health professionals who are concerned about proposed changes to maternity services in Whanganui and Palmerston North says Palmerston North MP Iain Lees-Galloway.
Should long-term Southern Cross members be recognised in some way for their loyalty? If so, would other members be happy to pay more to fund this?
These are just two in a series of questions the member based organisation is posing to its 825,000 members. The consultation is part of a project resulting from the Society’s 2011 AGM, where members asked the Board of Directors to look at ways to recognise members of long-standing.
It’s a fairly simple equation; healthy people make less demand on the health budget than unhealthy people. Both the NZMA and the Child Poverty Action Group have recently called for the government to take urgent action to address New Zealand’s rates of child poverty and consequent ill health, and now the New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine adds its voice to call for stronger prevention efforts to address health inequalities.
Wanganui and Palmerston North DHB midwives are united in their opposition the loss of full maternity services from Whanganui Hospital.
Members of the midwifery union MERAS, say if implemented, the change proposal will deprive Whanganui women of a secondary care maternity facility and the safety of so many more women travelling to give birth in Palmerston North is more compromised than under the current arrangements.
Health and disability professionals will soon be able to gain a better cultural understanding of Pacific peoples via New Zealand’s first ever online cultural training programme.
NZ Police and the Northland District Health Board are very disappointed with the results of a liquor licence controlled purchase operation, conducted in the Mid North region.
In a recent controlled purchase operation conducted in the mid north, five off-licensed* premises sold alcohol to underage minors (youth under 18 years).
Child Poverty Action Group has called on the government to take immediate action to address New Zealand’s distressing rates of child poverty and ill health.
Excess levels of lead have been discovered in a suburb of Thames found to be contaminated by arsenic.
In less than a day more than 8,000 people have registered to take part in New Zealand ShakeOut.
The campaign was launched yesterday morning and the Director of Civil Defence Emergency Management, John Hamilton, said the initial response has been superb: “It’s a great start, now we need to keep the momentum going.”
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is concerned that a proposal to shut down specialist maternity services in Whanganui and move them to Palmerston North will be a disaster for women, babies and their whanau who live in the area. The proposal also plans to move elective gynaecology services from Palmerston North to Whanganui.
The Medical Council of New Zealand today released the names of the four top polling candidates following its recent election.
A further three synthetic cannabis substances found in products sold in some dairies are in the process of being banned and are expected to be off the shelves by the end of next week, Associate Minister of Health Peter Dunne announced today.
The Asthma Foundation is concerned that lack of funding will mean that the New Zealand guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of asthma will not be updated.
