Pacific Health Service Hutt Valley (PHSHV) is transforming how Pacific people interact with maternity and early years services, creating a village approach to achieve healthy, thriving children and families. Alongside other healthcare providers around the motu – including Te Ao Marama Pacific and Māori Midwives, Hutt Hospital Maternity Unit and Community LMCs and Vaka Atafaga ...
With winter illnesses sweeping the motu and filling hospital wards, it’s not too late to get your vaccination – and pop on a mask in crowded places – that’s the message from Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora clinicians. The call comes as ESR data for the Auckland metropolitan area shows that its hospitals ...
In a significant move to enhance health service planning and delivery across Aotearoa, Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora has announced the integration of a transformative information system, the National Data Platform (NDP). Leigh Donoghue, Chief Data and Digital Officer, Health NZ says that the NDP is set to revolutionise the management of health ...
I’m pleased to announce the appointment of Jacqui Lunday as National Chief, Allied Health, Scientific and Technical. We look forward to welcoming her to the team from 29 July. Jacqui is an experienced and impactful AHS&T leader with an international profile and extensive multi-professional networks. Her previous experience includes more than 10 years as a ...
A by-product of the fermentation process when brewing kombucha is being put to an innovative new use, and is now enhancing anaesthetists’ ability to perform life-saving procedures at Wellington Regional Hospital. SCOBY – symbiotic culture of bacteria in yeast – is a substance that forms into progressively thicker layers during the kombucha fermentation process and ...
A renewed nationwide push is underway to get at-risk people tested for hepatitis C, because it has never been easier to be tested, treated and cured. Over 100 New Zealanders die every year from hepatitis C, all of whom could have been saved by earlier diagnosis and treatment. Health New Zealand is working with a ...
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Chair Professor Lester Levy says New Zealanders can expect an absolute focus on frontline delivery of healthcare as the organisation undertakes a major reset. “At the moment, people are having to wait too long for care, and we must do everything within our power to change this. The ...
Waikato Hospital has completed a significant upgrade to its laboratory with more space, services co-located, and a new Molecular Biology Laboratory. These changes will ensure a fit-for-purpose environment that makes the best use of the latest technology, aligns with current accreditation standards, and enhances the laboratory’s capacity to respond swiftly during future outbreaks. The $9.8 ...
Hawke’s Bay public health officials today welcome the release of an Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) report into any potential long-term health impacts from silt following Cyclone Gabrielle saying the findings are “extremely reassuring”. Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora National Public Health Service commissioned the report following Cyclone Gabrielle to better ...