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Avoid Waterways: Weather Bomb Floods Waste Water Plants
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:18:38 +1300 | Ruapehu District Council
Ruapehu residents living around the Makotuku Stream and Mangawhero River are being advised to stay away from the waterways until further notice following both the Raetihi and Ohakune waste water treatment plants being flooded in yesterday’s weather bomb.More >>
Waikato DHB Launches Second National Patient Safety Topic
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:59:35 +1300 | Waikato District Health Board
Waikato District Health Board (DHB) today joins each of the four DHB regions - Northern, Midlands, Central and South Island - to launch the second topic of the Open for better care national patient safety campaign: reducing harm from surgical site infections ...More >>
Preventing surgical site infections
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:23:42 +1300 | New Zealand Government
Associate Health Minister Jo Goodhew welcomes the second phase of the national patient safety campaign, Open for better care, which focuses on reducing harm from infections in patients following surgery. More >>
Midland DHBs Join Together With Map Of Medicine
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:38:56 +1300 | Waikato DHB
The roll out of a tool by five district health boards in the Midland region will allow clinicians across all sectors of health to work more closely together. More >>
International symposium to address fake pot
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:23:49 +1300 | NZ Drug Foundation
Questions about what exactly is synthetic cannabis and the latest research on pot imitations will be addressed at the New Zealand Drug Foundation’s Cannabis and Health Symposium in November.More >>
Another step to improve child health
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:20:14 +1300 | New Zealand Government
Health Minister Tony Ryall says the government is taking another step to improve the health of New Zealand children. Mr Ryall today announced new Well Child / Tamariki Ora quality indicators have been developed to ensure children and their families ...More >>
Overseas experience to boost FMD preparation
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:17:46 +1300 | New Zealand Government
Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy has announced that a delegation of 10 veterinarians, farming leaders and MPI staff will take part in foot and mouth disease (FMD) training in Asia next year to experience working with the disease first hand.More >>
Simple Hand-Washing with Soap Can Cut Death Rates
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:52:37 +1300 | UN News
From Ethiopia and Yemen to Bolivia and Viet Nam millions of children are today taking part in the sixth annual United Nations-backed Global Handwashing Day, driving home the message that the simple use of soap and water can slash highly preventable diarrhoeal ...More >>
What will it take to get to 5% smoking prevalence 2025?
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:31:26 +1300 | University of Otago
The New Zealand Government has a goal of a Smokefree Nation by 2025, often interpreted as a smoking prevalence of less than 5% by 2025. This should be a major focus of the New Zealand contingent at the Smokefree Oceania Conference in Auckland next week.More >>
Senior Doctors Endorse Nurses Concerns Over Secret TPP
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:52:41 +1300 | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“Senior doctors endorse the concerns raised by nurses about the secret negotiations over the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, today. Mr Powell was commenting ...More >>
180,000 work-related injury claims in 2012
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 11:47:15 +1300 | Statistics New Zealand
In 2012, 180,000 claims were made for a work-related injury in New Zealand to the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), Statistics New Zealand said today. More >>
Devil in the Details on Food Taxes and Subsidies
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:47:12 +1300 | University of Otago
Research teams we lead have published two papers in the last few weeks on food taxes and subsidies – both of which depend on what are called price elasticities. Timely, in light of the launch last week of Appetite for Destruction that is focusing public ...More >>
Hamilton fluoride referendum - Trevor Crosbie
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:31:33 +1300 | Trevor Crosbie
Waikato DHB chief executive Craig Climoe is wrong if he thinks the fluoride referendum vote outcome is a mandate to reinstate water fluoridation. His DHB spent $2000 for each vote in favour while the no fluoride group spent $1 per vote. He should also ...More >>
Government in denial about prescription costs
Mon, 14 Oct 2013 19:37:32 +1300 | New Zealand Labour Party
Pharmacies are being left out of pocket and hundreds of patients are going without medication as the fallout from the Government’s higher prescription charge hits home, says Labour’s Health spokesperson Annette King.More >>
CDHB Hospitals Redevelopment - contracts being let
Mon, 14 Oct 2013 17:17:51 +1300 | Canterbury District Health Board
The main contract for construction of the Christchurch Hospital redevelopment will be advertised in the first six months of 2014 to ensure that companies are given early warning of the project and it can be completed as quickly and cost effectively ...More >>
Ashburton community urged to get their kids protected
Mon, 14 Oct 2013 17:15:45 +1300 | Canterbury District Health Board
Ashburton families with young children are being urged to get their children vaccinated against hepatitis A sooner rather than later. More >>
Will cross-party political debate help stop the heartbreak?
Mon, 14 Oct 2013 10:59:17 +1300 | The Heart Foundation
The Heart Foundation is calling on political parties to act now to address New Zealand’s biggest killer - cardiovascular disease - which accounts for 40% of all deaths in New Zealand every year.More >>
DHB's still in trouble with Fluoridation
Mon, 14 Oct 2013 09:34:52 +1300 | Fluoride Action Network
After breathing a brief sigh of relief, DHBs and the Ministry of Health must be deeply troubled that after 50 years of general propaganda, four months of a national level Big Brother style propaganda campaign from prominent figures like the Chief Science ...More >>
Hamilton Has Spoken: We Want Fluoride
Sat, 12 Oct 2013 13:58:40 +1300 | Waikato District Health Board
Media Release Date: Saturday 12 October 2013 Hamilton Has Spoken: We Want Fluoride in Our Water Hamilton has spoken. We want fluoride back in our water. The Hamilton City Council community water fluoridation referendum results are in and 70 per cent ...More >>
DHBs urged to look after staff affected by shared services
Fri, 11 Oct 2013 18:55:01 +1300 | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association is urging District Health Boards to ensure that workers affected by a new shared services plan can be retained or redeployed within their own DHBs.More >>
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