Winter ills impacting health services
Winter ills are starting to have a real impact on health services throughout Tairāwhiti.
Since the beginning of June, there has been a significant increase in people…
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Tapu whilst Hapu poster competition
Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is a brain-based disability that is the result of alcohol consumption during pregnancy. There is clear evidence alcohol is the most…
Read more ...Gisborne lead on operating theatre briefings
Pre-surgery briefings are being encouraged in hospitals around NZ. At Gisborne Hospital they are the norm and have been since 2011.
Read more ...First time for Adult Medicine exams in Gisborne
Registrars from around New Zealand sat their Adult Medicine exams for the first time ever at Gisborne Hospitals on Friday 21 June 2019.
Read more ...Most shops are not selling smokes to youth
Fifteen out of sixteen retailers didn’t sell tobacco to underage buyers during the latest tobacco operation by Hauora Tairāwhiti.
Read more ...NAMOT Nominees announced
Nominations have been received for the Nurses and Midwives of Tairāwhiti (NAMOT) annual awards.
Winners will be announced at the Awards Evening on Saturday 20 July, 5…
Shaving for a chair
Sherryll, a full-time Manager at the House of Wonder, is going to have her head shaved on her 65th birthday to raise money for an $8000…
Read more ...Outpatient backlog to be cleared by end of June
Hauora Tairāwhiti is now in the recovery phase as a result of the Junior Doctors’ strike which took place a month ago.
Hauora Tairāwhiti had to cancel…
Whooping cough on the increase
There have been five confirmed cases of whooping cough in Tairāwhiti in the past month including two 2 year olds and a baby. This is much…
Read more ...Bev Bayliss, first in Tairāwhiti to have hepatitis C ‘delighted’ with cure
A cure for hepatitis C has been announced and treatment for the virus is fully funded.
These words that together in a sentence, Bev Bayliss thought she…
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