National Health Board Newsdesk - May 2013

National Health Board Newsdesk - May 2013

Welcome to the May round-up of the National Health Board Newsdesk.  This month’s stories are listed below.  Click here to read them in full on our website.

Newborn hearing screening conference: nurturing, growing and enriching NZ
Friday 31 May 2013

The seventh bienniel Australasian Newborn Hearing Screening Conference was hosted by the National Screening Unit and Ministry of Education in Auckland in May. More than 240 delegates attended over two days, for presentations, discussions and workshops which focused on continuing to build the success of the Newborn Hearing Screening (NHS) programmes across the region.

The big picture of emergency management
Thursday 23 May 2013

When a disaster or emergency strikes, large numbers of emergency services, and health providers assemble as one team to deal with the immediate response and long term recovery, and it all seems to “just happen”, but how does it happen? How are all these people and organisations and networks prepared and ready to respond to such complex emergencies?

New PHO Agreement to support better care in the community
Tuesday 21 May 2013

Strengthening accountability for providing local health care and increasing the range and quality of services in the community, is the key goal of the new PHO Services Agreement.

Sexual assault awareness campaign goes from strength to strength
Thursday 9 May 2013

It is estimated that one in four women and one in 20 men are sexually assaulted at some time in their lives, and many more sexual assaults go unreported. Who Are You? is a short online film that seeks to reduce sexual violence by calling on mates and bystanders to step in when something isn’t right. Clinical Manager of Wellington Sexual Health Service Kim Lund talks to us about the campaign that’s received national and international recognition.

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