Covid-19 has demonstrated that primary care can work together to deliver when there is a clear, shared goal, enabling rapid change and responsiveness, dissolving some previous barriers between secondary and primary health care
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Media release from the Federation of Primary Health Aotearoa New Zealand
To mark the day this year, Hāpai Te Hauora shares what ‘smokefree’ means to the people of Aotearoa. Hāpai is leading a campaign that asks Facebook users, whānau and friends to answer the question "What does smokefree mean to me?"
A method to help improve testing for COVID-19, first promoted by a University of Otago researcher, is being used worldwide as countries struggle to manage high demand for testing
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall today released a report finding a District Health Board, a self-employed midwife and a paediatric registrar in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for the care provided to a woman in labour and to her baby following birth
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Media release from the Health and Disability Commissioner
Junior doctor at Middlemore Hospital, Tuipoloa Opetaia Aati is using his mother tongue⎯Samoan to break down cultural barriers in medicine to help connect with his patients and better understand their medical needs or diagnosis
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Media release from the Pasifika Mediacl Association Group
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Kevin Allan today released a report finding a pharmacist in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for a dispensing error, and dishonest conduct following the error
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Media release from the Health and Disability Commissioner
