Residential Care

Resthomes having to manage sick residents with a hard-hit workforce, and nurses being unable to prescribe panadol is worrying aged care sector leaders as Omicron looms 

The Southern District Health Board reached a major milestone in its rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination today as it vaccinated some of the district’s most vulnerable people

Aged residential and primary care provider Third Age Health listed on the New Zealand Stock Exchange today, but aged-care researcher and GP Ngaire Kerse worries further corporatisation of the sector won’t improve patient care

International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife 2020 celebrations were overshadowed this year

International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife 2020 celebrations were overshadowed this year

Nurse leader and academic Frances Hughes says accounts from COVID-beleaguered aged residential care workers were reminiscent of the “powerlessness” of survivors of the 11 September, 2001 attacks, in the US

A report by the auditor-general has found a lack of personal protective equipment planning and stocktaking, and mixed messages by health organisations created confusion and shortages during the height of COVID lockdown

Breast implant makers warned; Conundrum with corticosteroids; Reasons why show failed to help teens

Resthome providers and carers have scrambled at times to obtain personal protective equipment in the fight against COVID-19, with weak links to
the DHBs likely to blame

Bay of Plenty GP Anthony March’s aged residential care practice Cicada Health provides primary care to several Tauranga and Te Puke resthomes but “very little” keeps him awake at night