This update seeks to bring the sector up to date with the current planning of the Taranaki COVID-19 Vaccination Programme and to direct key health care groups to important information about vaccination training and support
Around 600 amputations could be avoided in New Zealand each year if better foot screening and podiatry services were made available for everyone with type 2 diabetes, a recent report* shows
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Media release from Healthier Lives National Science Challenge and Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research
The College commends the unanimous passing of the Bereavement Leave for Miscarriage Bill, which will grant mothers and their partners three days of bereavement leave following a miscarriage or stillbirth
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Media release from the New Zealand College of Midwives
Health organisations have written to Climate Change Minister James Shaw asking him to appoint a public health expert to the Climate Change Commission to ensure Aotearoa improves health as well as reducing greenhouse gas emissions
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Media release from Ora Taiao, NZMA, the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the Health Promotion Forum of NZ
The Hutt Valley and Wellington regions have now entered the next phase of the COVID-19 vaccination rollout – the vaccination of border workers’ household contacts, and of the frontline health and emergency workforce – with five community vaccination centres (CVC) now in operation
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Media release from Hutt Valley DHB, Capital & Coast DHB and Te Awakairangi Health Network
In an announcement made this week, from Tuesday 23rd March, Aucklanders will be able to order alcohol on demand using the new feature on the UberEats app, with Christchurch and Wellington to follow in the coming weeks
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