300% hike in house officer fees destined for bureaucratic coffers
Friday 16 December 2011, 3:04PMMedia release from New Zealand Resident Doctors Association: More than $1.2 million is to be taken away from patient care and into bureaucratic coffers as a result of a decision to hike house officer recertification charges by more than 300% a year
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Pregnancy warning on alcohol products
Friday 16 December 2011, 1:00PMMedia release from Alcohol Healthwatch: Alcohol Healthwatch is pleased that, after more than a decade of dithering, there will finally be a pregnancy warning on all alcohol products in Australia and New Zealand
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Andrew Ferrier joins Orion Health as a Director and Investor
Friday 16 December 2011, 12:59PMMedia release from Orion Health: New Zealand’s healthcare software innovators, Orion Health, today announced the appointment of Andrew Ferrier to its board of directors
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Recertification: A new way forward
Friday 16 December 2011, 12:11PMMedia release from Medical Council: The Medical Council in partnership with bpacnz Ltd has established a recertification programme to provide doctors registered in a general scope of practice with a framework for their continuing professional development.
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Investment in medicines highest in PHARMAC history
Thursday 15 December 2011, 3:32PMMedia release from Pharmac
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RNZCGP welcomes Mr Ryall ‘s return as Minister but raises challenges ahead for general practice
Thursday 15 December 2011, 12:20PMMedia release from RNZCGP
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Hospital prison escaper quickly apprehended
Thursday 15 December 2011, 11:47AMMedia release from Waikato DHB: Hamilton Police are crediting the close relationship between government departments in being crucial in the timely apprehension of a prison inmate attempting to escape from Waikato Hospital
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Minister’s return welcomed by general practice organisations
Thursday 15 December 2011, 9:32AMMedia release from the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network and General Practice New Zealand
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Services at Akaroa Hospital to be Moved for Temporary Repair Work
Wednesday 14 December 2011, 4:24PMMedia release from Canterbury DHB
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Otago University's zebrafish facility significant in hunt for cure
Wednesday 14 December 2011, 4:16PMMedia release from KD Kirkby Trust
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Laboratory in Nelson Marlborough
Wednesday 14 December 2011, 4:14PMMedia release from Nelson Marlborough DHB
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Lakes DHB Shows the Way in Surgical Services
Wednesday 14 December 2011, 4:13PMMedia release from Lakes DHB
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New Approach to Combating Disordered Eating Great Success
Wednesday 14 December 2011, 4:11PMMedia release from EDEN
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Guild welcomes $12 million rheumatic fever funding boost
Wednesday 14 December 2011, 4:02PMMedia release from Pharmacy Guild
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Pertussis (Whooping Cough) Update 14 December
Wednesday 14 December 2011, 12:14PMMedia release from West Coast DHB: The pertussis outbreak currently being experienced continues to infect more people, particularly children on the West Coast
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Canterbury’s community laboratories service provider confirmed
Wednesday 14 December 2011, 11:32AMMedia release from Canterbury DHB: Southern Community Laboratories has been awarded the contract to partner Canterbury Health Laboratories to deliver an integrated laboratory service in Canterbury, with effect from April 1, 2012. Medlab South will continue to provide their normal services from their Christchurch base until the end of March next year
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Low carbon transport systems better for planet and people
Tuesday 13 December 2011, 9:34AMMedia release from World Health Organisation: Low carbon transport systems not only help create a healthy planet they can help improve the health of people according to a new World Health Organization report, involving a University of Auckland researcher as a lead author
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Medlab South loses Canterbury DHB Contract
Tuesday 13 December 2011, 9:32AMMedia release from Medlab South: Brian Willcox, Chief Executive of Medlab South, confirmed today that Medlab South had been unsuccessful in the recent RFP process for the sole provision of laboratory services for the Canterbury District Health Board. Mr Willcox said that his staff were absolutely devastated by the news
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Canterbury’s community laboratories service provider confirmed
Tuesday 13 December 2011, 9:28AMMedia release from Canterbury DHB: Southern Community Laboratories has been awarded the contract to partner Canterbury Health Laboratories to deliver an integrated laboratory service in Canterbury, with effect from April 1, 2012. Medlab South will continue to provide their normal services from their Christchurch base until the end of March next year
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Sonny Bill Williams supports Northland FREE MenC Vaccination Programme
Monday 12 December 2011, 5:01PMMedia Release from Northland DHB
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Excellent result in Oamaru tobacco Controlled Purchase Operation
Monday 12 December 2011, 3:36PMMedia release from Southern DHB
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New National-led Administration announced
Monday 12 December 2011, 2:32PMMedia release from prime minister John Key:
Prime Minister John Key today announced the incoming National-led Government’s new Ministry
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New community respite care programme starts next month
Monday 12 December 2011, 11:45AMMedia release from Westcoast DHB: A service giving older people the opportunity to have respite care in a homely and comfortable setting is starting on the West Coast next month
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Call for job applicants to reapply or contact Waikato DHB
Monday 12 December 2011, 11:17AMMedia release from Waikato DHB: Waikato District Health Board wants to hear from as many as 250 people who applied for jobs with it this week
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Governor-General becomes first Quitline patron
Friday 09 December 2011, 3:50PMMedia release from The Quit Group: The Quit Group, which runs the national stop smoking service Quitline, is pleased to announce that His Excellency Lieutenant General The Right Honourable Sir Jerry Mateparae
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NZ among nations making no progress on child maltreatment
Friday 09 December 2011, 3:47PMMedia release from University of Otago: New Zealand is named in a major international study involving the University of Otago as one of six states and countries which have no clear evidence of a decrease in child maltreatment over the past two decades
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Laboratory Services meeting held to discuss preferred provider
Friday 09 December 2011, 3:05PMMedia release from Canterbury DHB
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Lack of national strategy for provision of laboratory services cause concern
Friday 09 December 2011, 3:01PMMedical Laboratory Workers: The news that the contract for specialist medical laboratory testing from the MidCentral DHB region with Canterbury Health Laboratories is not being renewed and the work is being transferred to LabPlus in Auckland yet again highlights the lack of a national strategy for the delivery of medical laboratory services
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New study supports claim that breast screening may be causing more harm than good
Friday 09 December 2011, 2:42PMMedia release from British Medical Journal: A new study published on bmj.com today supports the claim that the introduction of breast cancer screening in the UK may have caused more harm than good
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The future of ACC in jeopardy
Friday 09 December 2011, 2:23PMMedia release from The University of Auckland’s ACC Group and AUT’s Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Research: The Confidence and Supply Agreement with the Act announced yesterday gives the green light to the privatisation of the work account of the ACC scheme
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New national committee to support prison healthcare
Friday 09 December 2011, 11:20AMMedia release from Department Of Corrections: The Department of Corrections has enlisted clinical and cultural experts to support clinical leadership of the healthcare services provided in prisons
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Prisoner Healthcare Committee a positive move
Friday 09 December 2011, 11:17AMMedia release from Rethinking Crime and Punishment: “The establishment of a national prisoner healthcare committee could reduce health sector costs in the long term”, said Kim Workman, Director of Rethinking Crime and Punishment
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Technology breakthrough counters abuse of disabled parking
Friday 09 December 2011, 10:39AMMedia release from Car Parking Technologies
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Visit your doctor before Christmas
Friday 09 December 2011, 10:35AMMedia release from Waikato District Health Board: Five district health boards covering most of the central North Island say they're determined to keep their 12 emergency departments for real emergencies over the Christmas/New Year period
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Canterbury District Health Board’s child health division receives generous donation
Friday 09 December 2011, 10:24AMMedia release from Canterbury DHB: Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB)’s child health division gratefully received a cheque for $64,485 yesterday as its share of this year’s Countdown Kids Hospital Appeal funds
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World Bank funds health project into second phase
Friday 09 December 2011, 10:09AMMedia release from Massey University: The World Bank has granted Massey University $5m in funding to extend its education programme strengthening Asian public health and veterinary capacity to combat zoonotic diseases
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Community Action of Suicide Prevention and Education and Research (CASPER)
Friday 09 December 2011, 9:47AMMedia release from CASPER: Today CASPER announced the establishment of a very important relationship with Mike Pero and his mortgage and real estate companies
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Siblings of children with disability need support
Thursday 08 December 2011, 4:08PMMedia release from The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
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Premium relief a focus at Southern Cross AGM
Thursday 08 December 2011, 2:27PMMedia release from Southern Cross Medical Care: The focus for members attending the 2011 Southern Cross Medical Care Society Annual General Meeting on Tuesday was premium relief
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Generous donation for kids Xmas wish list from Countdown
Thursday 08 December 2011, 1:45PMMedia release from Waikato DHB: Waikato District Health Board (DHB) will be able to check some items off its wish list this Christmas thanks to a generous donation from the Countdown Kids Hospital Appeal
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