Teresea Olsen QSM has built a major Māori health and social services provider on the foundations laid by her mother, who sought to provide hope and help from makeshift premises in a corner of the Hutt Valley. Virginia McMillan reports. Pictures by Dean Zilwood
Another Wellington medical centre has relaunched as a health care home, completing a redesign of the building layout and reorganising many aspects of administration and care.
There has been a 30 percent reduction in intravenous (IV) insertions – one of the most common invasive clinical procedures performed at Wellington Regional Hospital’s emergency department
GPs will be among health professionals able to refer patients to be considered for the trial of a cancer therapy not yet tried anywhere in the world. The treatment will see a number of well-established drugs repurposed for cancer. Virginia McMillan reports
The DHBs in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch have opened the door wider for people who have had strokes to get a treatment that can quickly change lives
Specialist GP Nikki Vadgama provides some tips to make your next paediatric eczema consult easier. She includes a review of new guidelines, resources, websites and medications for paediatric eczema management