Hawke's Bay District Health Board - Latest News [Page 8]
New Visitor Policy And ED Entrance Measures To Help Protect Others Against COVID-19.
Saturday, 21 March 2020, 4:48 pm | Hawke's Bay District Health Board
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board Medical Officer of Health Dr Rachel Eyre today confirmed temporary changes at its hospitals and health centres in response to COVID-19 (Coronavirus). “To help protect our vulnerable patients and our staff, we need ... More >>
COVID-19 Case Confirmed In Hawke’s Bay
Friday, 20 March 2020, 1:10 pm | Hawke's Bay District Health Board
The Ministry of Health today confirmed Hawke’s Bay had its first confirmed case of COVID-19. Hawke’s Bay District Health Board’s Medical Officer of Health, Dr Nick Jones said the confirmed case was a male in his 30s. The man has recently returned ... More >>
Hawke’s Bay’s First Community-Based Assessment Centre Opens Today
Thursday, 19 March 2020, 12:46 pm | Hawke's Bay District Health Board
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board’s first community-based assessment centre opened today. The Hastings-based centre is the first to open. These centres are not drop-in centres and anyone that turns up without an appointment will be turned away. ... More >>
Sustainability Top Of Mind At Intensive Care Conference
Thursday, 27 February 2020, 11:10 am | Hawke's Bay District Health Board
Sustainability will be front and centre at the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care society’s annual meeting in Napier next week. Staff from Hawke’s Bay District Health Board’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) are hosting this year’s event titled ... More >>
It’s super-hot: watch babies and elderly
Thursday, 30 January 2020, 12:17 pm | Hawke's Bay District Health Board
With Metservice predicting temperatures of over 30 degrees every day for at least the next seven days in Hawke’s Bay, advice on how to keep people safe is being issued by Hawke’s Bay District Health Board. The vulnerable, especially the elderly ... More >>
HBDHB reinstating home support care for all 605 sent letters
Monday, 13 January 2020, 4:53 pm | Hawke's Bay District Health Board
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board management has today met with home support providers to agree to reinstate care to all 605 people sent letters last week. More >>
Bay leptospirosis cases for national study
Monday, 13 January 2020, 12:46 pm | Hawke's Bay District Health Board
Leptospirosis is a serious illness, as anyone who has suffered from it will tell you. Hawke’s Bay has one of the highest rates of the disease in New Zealand. More >>
HBDHB committed to supporting older people live at home
Friday, 10 January 2020, 2:04 pm | Hawke's Bay District Health Board
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board will continue to support elderly and vulnerable people in the community who need assistance with basic housework and is working with its home support providers to contact all clients sent a letter this week. More >>
DHB offers walk-in oral health care in Flaxmere for children
Thursday, 9 January 2020, 10:34 am | Hawke's Bay District Health Board
People with children aged between 1 and 18 years needing dental exams or treatment can turn up to Hawke’s Bay DHB’s community dental hub in Flaxmere between 9am and 4pm from 13 January and be seen, no appointment necessary. More >>
Flying doctors nurse touches down in Hawke’s Bay
Friday, 6 December 2019, 1:00 pm | Hawke's Bay District Health Board
Jackie Hardy’s nursing career has taken her to the centre of conflicts, terrorist attacks and deadly tsunamis. More >>
Emergency Q brings wait times to screens
Tuesday, 3 December 2019, 1:49 pm | Hawke's Bay District Health Board
Deciding where to go for treatment for your urgent but non-life threatening illness or injury has just got much easier in Hawke’s Bay. More >>
New equipment brings improved imaging to radiology
Friday, 29 November 2019, 2:07 pm | Hawke's Bay District Health Board
Patients will benefit from faster, clearer imaging with the arrival of new equipment in the radiology department at Hawke’s Bay Fallen Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital. The Hawke’s Bay District Health Board has invested in two new mobile C-armfluoroscopy ... More >>
RSE worker confirmed with measles in Hawke’s Bay
Tuesday, 26 November 2019, 2:09 pm | Hawke's Bay District Health Board
A Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) worker has been confirmed with measles in Hawke’s Bay – the first confirmed seasonal worker case in the region. More >>
New measles cases confirmed in Hawke’s Bay
Friday, 1 November 2019, 2:05 pm | Hawke's Bay District Health Board
Two new measles case have been confirmed in Hawke’s Bay this week, taking the total number of measles cases in Hawke’s Bay, this year, to eleven. Hawke’s Bay District Health Board Medical Officer of Health, Dr Nicholas Jones, said of the new ... More >>
New measles case confirmed in Hawke’s Bay
Friday, 11 October 2019, 6:50 pm | Hawke's Bay District Health Board
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board is asking all passengers on an Air New Zealand flight from Auckland to Napier on Monday 7 October at 4:30pm, as well as anyone who visited domestic terminals linked to this flight, to check their immunity to measles ... More >>
One new measles cases confirmed in Hawke’s Bay
Friday, 4 October 2019, 2:25 pm | Hawke's Bay District Health Board
A new measles case has been confirmed, today, (4 October) in Hawke’s Bay – a toddler from Hastings. This takes the total number of measles cases in Hawke’s Bay, this year, to six. More >>
Transplant hui first to be held in Hawke’s Bay
Friday, 4 October 2019, 12:30 pm | Hawke's Bay District Health Board
For the first time in New Zealand, a transplant hui, to better inform Māori healthcare providers and influencers about organ donation, is to be held in Hawke’s Bay to support patients/whānau who face transplant conversations, or the receiving of a ... More >>
Two new measles cases in Hawke's Bay
Wednesday, 2 October 2019, 5:36 pm | Hawke's Bay District Health Board
Two new measles cases have been confirmed in Hawke’s Bay today – a Hastings male in his 30’s and a toddler in Wairoa. This takes the total number of measles cases in Hawke’s Bay, this year, to five. Hawke’s Bay District Health Board Medical ... More >>
Strike action will delay X-rays and scans
Friday, 27 September 2019, 9:35 am | Hawke's Bay District Health Board
Patients needing x-rays, CT scans, MRI scans and angiograms can expect delays across Hawke’s Bay DHB locations, next week, due to Medical Imaging Technicians (MITs) going on strike. More >>
Hawke’s Bay Hospital very busy
Friday, 30 August 2019, 12:25 pm | Hawke's Bay District Health Board
With spring carnival events getting underway across the region, health officials are reminding people to choose their health care wisely. More >>