**New Video and Pink Shirt Day campaign highlight organisation's commitment to promoting positive relationships**
The Mental Health Foundation is proud to lead the efforts on Pink Shirt Day, a national campaign aimed to raise awareness around how to prevent bullying.
Having clean hands before and after contact with patients is one of the most important things health care workers can do to prevent infections, says the Health Quality & Safety Commission.
5 May is World Hand Hygiene Day and the Commission says it is a good reminder of the importance of good hand hygiene in the fight against preventable healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs).
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) celebrates International Day of the Midwife tomorrow (5 May).
NZNO is proud to represent over 700 New Zealand midwives who support thousands of women every year through pregnancy and birth. The organisation advocates for all women to have access to midwifery services when and where they are needed. The theme for International Midwives Day is ‘the world needs midwives now more than ever’.
Hunters are being reminded to avoid contact with two Canterbury lakes this duck shooting season because of toxic algae.
This year’s duck shooting season officially opens on Saturday, May 5.
The call is out for Aucklanders to plunge into an icy pool for five minutes at the upcoming Heart Stopper Challenge event to be held in Auckland on 18th May. This act of courage by participants will help to raise much needed awareness and funds for the 12 Kiwi kids born every week with a congenital heart condition.
Nurses and midwives around the Midland region are celebrating International Midwives and Nurses Days in a variety of ways in May.
How many kids in your region have asthma? It’s not a pretty picture
Imagine that every single person in Hamilton has asthma. That’s how many New Zealand children live with the challenges, fears and disadvantages of asthma.
Deaf Aotearoa will be offering people the chance to learn how to communicate without saying a word at free sign language classes on offer during New Zealand Sign Language Week (30 April – 6 May).
Private practitioner Glenda van de Ven-Long from Palmerston North was selected from the three award finalists by a panel of judges following a rigorous interview process. She takes away a $5000 study grant aimed at furthering her knowledge and expertise in occupational therapy.
Christchurch City Council announced today that two elite wheelchair athletes will compete in the new Christchurch Airport Marathon course on Sunday 3 June 2012.
In a few weeks’ time 250 nutters will mount up on 50cc scooters at dawn in Christchurch and ride them across the snow-covered Porters and Arthurs Passes, chasing the sun westwards to watch it set in the Tasman Sea on arrival into Hokitika.
Asthma Awareness Week runs from 30 April (Monday) until Sunday 6 May with Balloon Day on Friday 4 May. This year we are focusing on prevention
In Aotearoa 1 in 4 kids struggle to blow up a balloon. Asthma won't let them. Statistics show that our children are also over represented in the hospital admission statistic so we are promoting the key message ‘let's keep our kids out of hospital!’
The New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilts are set to become national treasures as they are handed over to Te Papa Tongarewa as a taonga. The Quilts will be seen in Auckland for the final time at a ceremony in St Matthew-in-the-City at 2pm on Sunday, 29 April when they will be transferred to representatives of Te Papa. Michael Bancroft, Guardian of the Quilts, is “delighted that this unique part of our history will find a special home at Te Papa where, in time, far more people will have access to its beauty and the memories it holds for so many”
Idea Nation is an ACC competition looking for ground-breaking solutions to help prevent falls in the home, particularly among the working age population. There are four categories: secondary students and schools; tertiary organisations, students and staff; business; and the general public. There is a $10,000 prize for the best idea in each category.
(Auckland, 17 April 2012): An estimated 1 in 1,000 women and men has a bleeding disorder worldwide. Every year on 17 April, World Haemophilia Day is celebrated around the world in order to increase awareness of haemophilia and other inherited disorders. This World Haemophilia Day the Haemophilia Foundation of New Zealand (HFNZ) is holding a national Children's Education Workshop for children with severe bleeding disorders.
Fono 2012, through its theme – Pacific Edge – Transforming Knowledge into Innovative Practice – will provide an opportunity for Pacific and non-Pacific peoples, researchers and health professionals from New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific to discuss Pacific health research knowledge that will inform innovative practice.
The Fono is being hosted by the Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC), and is being held at the Waipuna Hotel and Conference Centre in Auckland on 18 and 19 April 2012.
Resilience and collaboration will be a key theme at a national health conference held in Christchurch later this month.
‘Shine the Light’, Allied Health Technical and Scientific Professions Conference, being held in Christchurch on April 26 and 27, is aimed at profiling and sharing what’s happening in health now and into the future.
An international expert on eating disorders is coming to New Zealand promoting stories and metaphors as part of treatment. Dr. Anita Johnson will explain to New Zealand health professionals how stories and metaphors can assist the recovery process for a wide range of eating disorders from anorexia and bulimia to compulsive/binge eating and eating disorders associated with severe obesity and bariatric surgery.
A major fund-raising drive to replace the Westpac Waikato Air Ambulance Bell222B aircraft with a modern, multi-role $3.5 million helicopter to serve the region will be a feature of the Waikato Show this month.
The Westpac Waikato Air Ambulance helicopter is 25 years old and has served the Waikato community for 15 years, transporting over 9,000 patients since 1997.
Dr Paul Hutchison, MP for Hunua and Chair of the Health Select Committee, will officially llaunch the Hospice NZ Standards for Palliative Care in Wellington on 13 April, at Te Papa.
