Far North imoko health service honoured with award
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Kaitaia – One of New Zealand’s leading public health volunteer charity organisations, imoko, has been honoured for its services to the community. The Far North-based organisation helps more than 6500 New Zealand children across more than 110 early childhood centres, kohanga reo, primary, intermediate and secondary schools. The children receive […]
Read More →Feedback on the Commission’s Quality Improvement Programmes
MIL OSI – Source: Health Quality and Safety Commission – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Feedback on the Commission’s Quality Improvement Programmes The Commission’s Improvement Programmes team is keen to get your views on the Commission’s quality improvement programmes. The quality improvement programmes are a mix of ongoing investment in high harm areas, and focused investment in […]
Read More →Emerging Leader Surinderpal Sran
MIL OSI – Source: Tairawhiti District Health – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Emerging Leader Surinderpal Sran 26 June 2017 The Health Quality and Safety Commission’s Open for Leadership Awards are given out monthly to DHBs around the country – two a month from February to November.Each month two DHBs are asked to put forward one candidate […]
Read More →Nurses and doctors mend babies’ hearts with help from Angel Flight
MIL OSI – Source: Waikato District Health Board – Release/Statement Headline: Nurses and doctors mend babies’ hearts with help from Angel Flight Cooperation in a remote rural area of Waikato enabled two babies with complex cardiac conditions to access specialist care at Starship Hospital in Auckland and follow up treatment and monitoring in their own […]
Read More →Te Ohonga Ake: The Health Status of Māori Children and Young People in New Zealand
MIL OSI – Source: New Zealand Ministry of Health – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Te Ohonga Ake: The Health Status of Māori Children and Young People in New Zealand Summary This publication presents indicators for Māori child and youth health, examining issues in infancy, issues for ages 0–24 years, respiratory system conditions, communicable diseases, unintentional injuries, […]
Read More →SmartHealth benefits patients and practice
MIL OSI – Source: Waikato District Health Board – Release/Statement Headline: SmartHealth benefits patients and practice Putaruru-based General Practitioner, Dr Stephen Ram, has experienced first-hand the benefits of SmartHealth for both his patients and his practice. Primarily using HealthTap with dermatology patients, Dr Ram makes use of the ability to easily and securely connect with […]
Read More →General practice increasingly popular with young doctors
MIL OSI – Source: New Zealand Government – Release/Statement Headline: General practice increasingly popular with young doctors Health Minister Jonathan Coleman says an increase in interest in general practice amongst medical students is a promising trend. “It’s important that health facilities around the country are well equipped to provide New Zealanders with the treatment that […]
Read More →New Zealand Health Research Strategy 2017-2027
MIL OSI – Source: New Zealand Ministry of Health – Release/Statement Headline: New Zealand Health Research Strategy 2017-2027 Summary The New Zealand Health Research Strategy 2017-2027 sets a vision that, by 2027, New Zealand will have a world-leading health research and innovation system. There are four guiding principles for the system: research excellence; transparency; partnership […]
Read More →Two Waikato DHB health professionals win awards for clinical education
MIL OSI – Source: Waikato District Health Board – Release/Statement Headline: Two Waikato DHB health professionals win awards for clinical education Dr Amanda Oakley, Dermatologist and Associate Professor University of Auckland’s Faculty of Medical and Health Science has announced its 2017 teaching awards, including Dennis Pickup Education Awards for Clinical Education to Waikato DHB’s Dr […]
Read More →Health volunteers celebrated at annual awards
MIL OSI – Source: New Zealand Government – Release/Statement Headline: Health volunteers celebrated at annual awards Health Minister Jonathan Coleman has announced the Wellington Hospitals Volunteer Service as the overall winner of the 2017 Minister of Health Volunteer Awards. “The Health Volunteer Awards celebrate and recognise the thousands of dedicated health sector volunteers who give […]
Read More →Supporting world class health research in NZ
MIL OSI – Source: New Zealand Government – Release/Statement Headline: Supporting world class health research in NZ Minister of Health Jonathan Coleman and Minister of Science and Innovation Paul Goldsmith today launched New Zealand’s first Health Research Strategy which aims to increase the excellence and impact of government investment in health research. “Investment in health […]
Read More →Emerging Leader Michelle Goldsmith
MIL OSI – Source: Tairawhiti District Health – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Emerging Leader Michelle Goldsmith 22 June 2017 The Health Quality and Safety Commission’s Open for Leadership Awards are given out monthly to DHBs around the country – two a month from February to November.Each month two DHBs are asked to put forward one candidate […]
Read More →Live, laugh, share – celebrating Waikato DHB’s volunteers
MIL OSI – Source: Waikato District Health Board – Release/Statement Headline: Live, laugh, share – celebrating Waikato DHB’s volunteers Live, laugh, share is the theme of this year’s National Volunteer Week and it’s exactly how Waikato DHB celebrated with over 70 of its very special and valued volunteers over lunch. Volunteers are an essential part […]
Read More →Commitment to patients sees rural nurse win award
MIL OSI – Source: Health Quality and Safety Commission – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Commitment to patients sees rural nurse win award The latest recipient of the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Open for leadership award is West Coast District Health Board district nurse Jessie Gibbens. The Open for leadership awards are coordinated by the Health […]
Read More →Ngāti Porou Hauora GP Vaccines are safe and effective
MIL OSI – Source: Tairawhiti District Health – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Ngāti Porou Hauora GP Vaccines are safe and effective 21 June 2017 by Dr Douglas Lush, GP, Uawa, Ngati Porou Hauora Recently there has been lots of commentary suggesting doctors want to hide some vague but terrible information about vaccines from parents. This is […]
Read More →Plunket celebrates National Volunteer Week
MIL OSI – Source: New Zealand Plunket Society – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Plunket celebrates National Volunteer Week This National Volunteer Week (18-24 June) Plunket is celebrating its volunteers across the country and the diverse ways in which they support whānau with young tamariki. “Volunteers founded Plunket in 1907 to ‘help the mothers and save the […]
Read More →Waikato DHB celebrates success of new service helping people back to work
MIL OSI – Source: Waikato District Health Board – Release/Statement Headline: Waikato DHB celebrates success of new service helping people back to work An initiative helping unemployed people overcome their challenging health issues and return to work is going from strength to strength a year after it was launched as a pilot programme. The programme, […]
Read More →Finding new ways to support people with long-term pain conditions
MIL OSI – Source: New Zealand Government – Release/Statement Headline: Finding new ways to support people with long-term pain conditions Health Minister Jonathan Coleman is praising an innovative programme in the Far North which aims to better support people with long-term musculoskeletal conditions. “The Government invested $6 million in Budget 2015 to create community based […]
Read More →Celebrating 20 years of pill-free prescriptions
MIL OSI – Source: New Zealand Government – Release/Statement Headline: Celebrating 20 years of pill-free prescriptions Health Minister Jonathan Coleman has marked the 20th anniversary of the Green Prescription initiative, which has seen around 400,000 medication-free healthy lifestyle prescriptions given out. “The Government is committed to supporting New Zealanders to live healthier more active lives […]
Read More →Waikato DHB welcomes $3 million plus in grants for important Waikato health research projects
MIL OSI – Source: Waikato District Health Board – Release/Statement Headline: Waikato DHB welcomes $3 million plus in grants for important Waikato health research projects Photo: Prof Ross Lawrenson Waikato District Health Board (DHB) is proud that three research projects it has strong links with are recipients of major grants from the last Health Research […]
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