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23/12/08 |
Health Warning re Blue-Green Algal Bloom: Te Wairewa/Lake
Forsyth
Due to increased levels of algal bloom and
associated toxins, Te Wairewa/Lake Forsyth water has been
declared unsafe for drinking/swallowing or recreational use.
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22/12/08 |
CDHB Amnesty on Borrowed Equipment
If you have a
wheelchair, walking frame, crutches, shower stool or any other
rehabilitation equipment that should have been returned to a
Canterbury hospital, now is the time to bring it back.
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24/11/08 |
White Ribbon Day
Family violence is a
health issue and its identification and management is part of
the role of all health practitioners, says Canterbury District
Health Board Child Protection Coordinator Susan Miles.
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24/11/08 |
Rangiora Hospital Birthing Unit Open Day
Expectant mothers and fathers will have an
opportunity to look around the facilities at Rangiora Hospital’s
Birthing Unit at an open day being held next week.
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20/11/08 |
CDHB Helps
Staff to Make Healthy Lifestyle Choices
The Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) is supporting its
staff to make healthy lifestyle choices with a revamped website
that offers nutrition and physical activity ideas and a chance
to ‘talk to an expert’.
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19/11/08 |
CDHB
Accepts Donation of New Christchurch Hospital Family Room
Canterbury
District Health Board has given approval to include a Ronald
McDonald Family Room at Christchurch Hospital, which will
support families of children who are receiving treatment.
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18/11/08 |
Refurbished Akaroa Dental
Clinic to Officially Open
The refurbished
Akaroa Dental Clinic will officially be reopened this Wednesday
19 November. The revamped community dental clinic is the first
stage of a $13.3 million upgrade of
Canterbury District Health Board’s Community Dental Service.
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12/11/08 |
Fresh Future
Appeal Raises $125,000 For
CDHB’S Children’s Wards
Christchurch Hospital's
children's wards have received $125,000 from the annual
Progressive Enterprises Fresh Future Appeal, which aims to raise
funds for paediatric wards nationwide.
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11/11/08 |
Hip and
Knee Initiative Supreme Winner at CDHB Quality Improvement and Innovation
Awards
A project
streamlining the patient journey through Canterbury’s health
services for hip and knee surgery was the Supreme Winner at
today’s Canterbury District Health Board Quality Improvement and
Innovation Awards.
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05/11/08 |
Canterbury Wins
Health Innovation Award
Canterbury District
Health Board’s (DHB’s) project, Developing an acute non-invasive
ventilation service at Christchurch Hospital, has won the award for
Excellence in Quality Improvement at the 2008 New Zealand Health
Innovation Awards (HIA).
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14/10/08 |
Play With A Purpose
Hospital’s can be scary unfamiliar places for children. Anxiety
can make it harder for children and their caregivers to cope and
for health staff to properly diagnose illness.
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13/10/08 |
CDHB-Funded Project Aims To Improve
Oral Health In Under-Fives
The Canterbury
District Health Board (CDHB) is funding a three-year initiative
that will aim to improve oral health among children under five
years old.
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23/09/08 |
CDHB Launches New University Master’s
Scholarships Programme
The Canterbury
District Health Board (CDHB), in conjunction with the University
of Canterbury, is today launching a new initiative that will see
it funding several health-related Master’s research projects.
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17/09/08 |
CDHB Funds New Role To Increase Youth
Physical Activity
A
new position funded by the Canterbury District Health Board will
help to identify the types of physical activity that
Canterbury’s young people enjoy.
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15/09/08 |
Canterbury DHB Names New CEO
Canterbury District Health Board is pleased
to announce that David Meates, the current Chief Executive of
Wairarapa DHB, will be its next Chief Executive.
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12/09/08 |
Board
supports investigation of Canterbury Children’s Hospital proposal
Canterbury District Health
Board today supported further investigation into the possibility
of a Children’s Hospital being established in the region.
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12/09/08 |
Increasing
Costs Push Up Canterbury Meals on Wheels Price
Canterbury District
Health Board is reluctantly increasing the price of its Meals on
Wheels service to assist in covering rising costs.
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09/09/08 |
Demolition of old Christchurch Women’s
Hospital underway
Demolition of the former Christchurch Women’s
Hospital in Colombo St, Christchurch has started.
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09/09/08 |
Turning research into practice:
Professor Philip Darbyshire
Professor Philip
Darbyshire, Chair of Nursing, Women's and Children's Hospital University
of South Australia (Adelaide) says there is a desperate need for
research to be welcomed into clinical practice and development.
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08/09/08 |
Fresh Future Appeal – Support our
Walkers!
Some Canterbury
District Health Board (CDHB) staff are helping support the Fresh Future
Charitable Trust by joining walkers on the Canterbury leg of a charity
walk/cycle from Invercargill to Auckland at the end of this week.
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29/08/08 |
CDHB Launches Campaign to Boost Nursing Numbers
The Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) is beginning a new
campaign this weekend to attract nurses who have been out of the
workforce back into the profession.
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26/08/08 |
Police Called to Investigate
Interference With Hospital Medication
The Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) has
contacted Christchurch Police to investigate several incidents, where
pain relief medication has been diluted or replaced with water on wards
at Christchurch Hospital.
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18/08/08 |
Review of Hillmorton’s Adult Inpatient
Service Completed
The review of the Acute Inpatient Service (AIS) at
Hillmorton Hospital has been completed. Canterbury District Health
Board will now look at its recommendations and consider what changes
need to be made to the AIS.
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15/08/08 |
Surgical Bus’ first day in Waikari a
success
The Mobile Surgical Bus had a successful first day
at the Waikari Medical Centre on Monday 11 August. Five patients on the
Canterbury general surgery list received operations.
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08/08/08 |
Community Gardens for Lincoln
Canterbury District
Health Board (CDHB) hospital land will soon be shared by Lincoln people
for recreation, therapy, educational opportunities and community-grown
food.
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06/08/08 |
Fresh Future Appeal – the fundraising begins!
Christchurch Hospital's Children's Wards
are asking Canterbury people to support the annual
Progressive Enterprises Fresh Futures Appeal.
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30/07/08 |
Influenza – Still Time To Protect Yourself
Canterbury’s influenza season is likely to peak in the
coming weeks warns Dr Lance Jennings,
Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) virologist and National
Influenza Strategy Group (NISG) spokesperson.
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25/07/08 |
Farewell To Long Time Canterbury Medical Officer Of Health
Dr Melvin Brieseman retired yesterday from Canterbury
District Health Board’s Community and Public health division after more
than 30 years as a Canterbury Medical Officer of Health (MOH).
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03/07/08 |
MLWU
Media Release Incorrect
Facts in a media release today from the NZ Medical
Laboratory Workers Union about Canterbury District Health Board’s
cytology screening are incorrect.
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02/07/08 |
Christchurch
Hospital’s Extended Emergency Department Officially Opens
Christchurch Hospital’s
extended and refurbished Emergency Department will be officially opened
this Friday 4 July.
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17/06/08 |
A Big Thank You To
Our Volunteers
Volunteer Awareness Week began on
Sunday and continues until Saturday 21 June. The Canterbury District
Health Board (CDHB) would like to take this opportunity to thank all of
the volunteers who work with us.
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13/06/08 |
CDHB Chief Executive
To Retire In November
Canterbury District Health Board Chairman Alister
James regrets to announce that Chief Executive Gordon Davies has decided
to retire later this year at the end of his contract with the Board.
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12/06/08 |
Parents Urged To Get
Children Immunised Following Measles Outbreak
Parents are being encouraged to
ensure their children get their free measles, mumps and rubella (MMR)
vaccination, following a measles outbreak at a Christchurch preschool.
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09/06/08 |
Community
Participation In Health Services Planning
‘Nothing about us, without us’, is the
slogan adopted by The CDHB’s new Health Services Planning (HSP) Consumer
Council.
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04/06/08 |
CDHB
Supports Brain Injury Awareness Week
Concussion is a serious
injury, with some people experiencing symptoms that can last months or even
years after they have been hurt.
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03/06/08 |
CDHB Supports
Herpes Awareness Campaign Herpes is a common
sexually transmitted infection that can be easily managed and treated.
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30/05/08 |
Kick
the habit this World Smokefree Day
Creating a smokefree / auahi kore future for the
young people of Aotearoa, New Zealand is the focus for World Smokefree Day
on Saturday 31 May.
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29/05/08 |
Autism
Awareness Week – A Different Way of Thinking
This Autism Awareness Week, June 1-7,
Evan and Veronica Kidd would like Canterbury people to know their
nine-year-old son Callum simply has a different way of viewing the world.
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22/05/08 |
CDHB
Supports Coeliac Awareness Week Coeliac
disease is a relatively common condition that often goes undiagnosed because
many people learn to live with the symptoms, despite never feeling
completely well.
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12/05/08 |
International Nurses Day – Thank You to Canterbury Nurses
Nurses around
the world are celebrating International Nurses Day today, Monday 12 May –
the birthday of Florence Nightingale. This includes the 5,000 plus nurses
in Canterbury....
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23/04/08 |
Get Your ‘Flu
Vaccination Now
Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) virologist
Dr Lance Jennings is urging Cantabrians to get their ‘flu vaccination
now, before winter sets in.
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22/04/08 |
Update on today's Junior Doctors Strike
Canterbury District Health Board hospitals have been busy but are coping so
far on the first day of the Resident Medical Officers' (Junior Doctors)
strike....
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22/04/08 |
Cantabrians Urged To Think
1-2-3
A new campaign launched by the Canterbury District Health Board urges
Cantabrians to think about the best place to go for health care,
rather than simply head to the Emergency Department.
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22/04/08 |
New Springston Bore Puts
Stop To Illness Outbreak
A Canterbury District Health Board investigation into a
cluster of campylobacter cases in the Springston Township during February
and March this year has concluded that the outbreak was caused by
contamination of the town’s water supply.
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17/04/08 |
CDHB Plans for Upcoming
Junior Doctors Strike Christchurch
Hospital, Christchurch Women’s Hospital and Burwood Hospital will be
offering limited services during the Resident Medical Officers’ (Junior
Doctors) strike from 7am, Tuesday 22 April until 7am, Thursday 24 April.
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11/04/08 |
CDHB Decides To Rejoin DHBNZ
Canterbury District Health Board
members voted to rejoin DHBNZ at their monthly meeting today. The previous
Board withdrew last year.
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11/04/08 |
CDHB Board Members Vote For
MoU With Charity Hospital
Canterbury District Health Board members decided at their
monthly meeting today to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with
the Canterbury Charity Hospital Trust.
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10/04/08 |
New Website Aims To Make Māori Smoking Cessation Service More
Accessible
A new
website and 0800 number have been launched to help Māori
women and their whānau get more information about
and link into Aukati Kaipaipa – a free smoking cessation service.
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01/04/08 |
Correction to Sunday Star
Times Story re Canterbury RMOs A report in
the Sunday Star Times last Sunday incorrectly stated that the Canterbury
District Health Board had cancelled annual leave for its junior doctors
until August.
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28/03/08 |
CDHB Supports New Healthy
Eating And Exercise Programme For Children
The Canterbury District
Health Board (CDHB) is supporting a new programme being run by the Te Puna
Whaiora Glenelg Children’s Health Camp to encourage overweight children and
their families to eat healthily and exercise regularly.
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20/03/08 |
CDHB Seeks External Review
of its Acute lnpatient Service for Mental Health Patients
Canterbury District Health
Board is commissioning an external review of its Acute Adult Inpatient
Service at Hillmorton Hospital.
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11/03/08 |
New CDHB Surgical Assessment
Unit Opens
Patients needing acute surgical admission to Christchurch Hospital will now
be fast tracked through to a new unit.
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06/03/08 |
MoU Signing Important Step
In Improving Health Of Canterbury Maori
The Canterbury District Health
Board (CDHB) will tomorrow sign a Memorandum of Understanding with
Manawhenua Ki Waitaha.
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04/03/08 |
Canterbury District Health Board Endorses Health Impact Assessment Of
CPW Scheme
The Canterbury
District Health Board today voted to accept the independent
Health Impact Assessment of the Central Plains Water Scheme,
subject to some changes to the draft report produced by the
DHB’s Community & Public Health division.
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03/03/08 |
CDHB To
Issue RFP For Management Of Residential Homes
Canterbury District
Health Board will be issuing a Request for Proposals for the
management of its residential service for people with
intellectual disabilities, who have experienced mental illness.
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11/02/08 |
CDHB
Proposes RFP For Management Of Residential Homes
Canterbury District
Health Board is considering issuing a Request for Proposals for
the management of its three residential homes for people with
intellectual disabilities, who have experienced mental illness.
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18/01/08 |
Double
Accreditation for CDHB Services
Two of the Canterbury
District Health Board’s specialist services have been accredited
by Quality Health New Zealand this week. |
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06/01/08 |
Scout
Jamboree Ends Today
Most of the 3000
scouts and 1500 leaders at the 18th New Zealand Scout
Jamboree at Christchurch’s Canterbury Agricultural Park will
return home today. |
