Pacific healthcare providers in Auckland, Hamilton and Wellington have agreed to share staff should any of their number lose staff due to Omicron infection
It’s been a long week with a long weekend to follow for the Pacific providers dividing themselves between two vaccine rollouts and the Tongan relief effort
Rolling out a child vaccination programme that is accessible to parents returning to work and is safe for children requires a response that is “fleet of foot”, says Turuki Healthcare chief executive Te Puea Winiata
Auckland-based Tongan healthcare providers are coordinating a response to the weekend’s massive eruption while also trying to contact relatives and friends
Don’t wait for someone else to address inequities in health, start doing what you can in your own backyard, says clinical researcher and Auckland GP Matire Harwood
Mt Roskill GP registrar Vanisi Prescott, “the TikTok doctor”, knows the personal impact of good role models; she didn’t believe a job in medicine was possible until she saw Samoan GP Debbie Ryan in a white coat
Northland DHB chief executive Nick Chamberlain can see big changes on the horizon for the health sector, and says COVID-19 has shown him the wagon they will ride in on
