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Hawkes Bay DHB - 0800 number for patients
Wednesday, 4 April 2007, 3:02 pm | Hawkes Bay DHB
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board has set up a free 0800 number so Hawke’s Bay people can check whether their outpatient appointment or elective surgery has had to be postponed due to next week’s planned strike action by members of the Medical ... More >>
Planned Strike Action by Laboratory Workers
Wednesday, 28 March 2007, 11:58 am | Hawkes Bay DHB
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board (HBDHB) has received notice of intended strike action by members of the Medical Laboratory Workers’ Union (MLWU). The two day strike action is planned to occur from 8.00am Wednesday 11 April to 8.00am Friday ... More >>
Public open day at Napier Health Centre
Monday, 19 March 2007, 4:56 pm | Hawkes Bay DHB
Members of the public have an opportunity to tour through Napier Health Centre on Saturday 24 March 2007 between 10am -2pm, when the centre holds a public open day. More >>
Collecting blood for testing still free at labs
Monday, 19 March 2007, 2:34 pm | Hawkes Bay DHB
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board (HBDHB) chief executive officer, Chris Clarke said the new partnership, introduced on 1 March 2007 between Southern Community Laboratories and HBDHB was working well. More >>
Health Warning remains following sewage overflow
Wednesday, 7 March 2007, 4:03 pm | Hawkes Bay DHB
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has been monitoring the effects of Hastings District Council’s sewage discharge into the Kaiapo drain. The latest monitoring results indicate that the discharge still poses a health risk to river users in the Kaiapo ... More >>
Hawke’s Bay Health Warning Sewage Overflow
Monday, 5 March 2007, 1:00 pm | Hawkes Bay DHB
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board advises the public not to swim, undertake other water contact recreational activites or food gathering activities in the area of the Kaiapo Drain, Southland Drain, Irongate Stream, Karamu Stream and Clive River, ... More >>
HBDHB launches Maori antenatal programme
Wednesday, 14 February 2007, 5:36 pm | Hawkes Bay DHB
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board (HBDHB) is to launch Whanau Mai, a new programme designed to provide antenatal education specifically for Maori mothers-to-be. The programme will be launched at a powhiri on Friday 16 February in Whare Mihiroa, (Maori ... More >>
Lake Tutira Swimming Warning Lifted
Wednesday, 17 January 2007, 2:48 pm | Hawkes Bay DHB
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board’s Medical Officer of Health, Dr Lester Calder today lifted a warning made on 10 January 2007 advising members of the public not to swim in Lake Tutira. This followed very high levels of contamination found in ... More >>
Lake Tutira Contaminated – Swimming Warning
Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 4:14 pm | Hawkes Bay DHB
Hawke’s Bay’s District Health Board Medical Officer of Health, Dr Caroline McElnay, today issued a warning, advising members of the public not to swim in Lake Tutira due to contamination. More >>
HB retailers sell cigarettes to 14 year old
Friday, 22 December 2006, 1:51 pm | Hawkes Bay DHB
Three retailers, two in Mahia and one in Wairoa, sold cigarettes to a 14 year old, as part of a controlled purchasing operation carried out by Hawke’s Bay District Health Board. More >>
Hawke’s Bay: Rain causes swimming warnings
Thursday, 7 December 2006, 11:38 am | Hawkes Bay DHB
Recent heavy rain has caused pollution to contaminate many Hawke’s Bay waterways, says Hawke’s Bay’s District Health Board medical officer of Health, Dr Caroline McElnay. More >>
Countdown on till end of lab workers’ strike
Tuesday, 5 December 2006, 10:50 am | Hawkes Bay DHB
With less than 24 hours until the end of a seven day strike by laboratory workers, Hawke’s Bay District Health Board’s chief operating officer, Warrick Frater, is reminding the public to see their GP first unless it’s an emergency. More >>
0800 number for patients to check strike action
Thursday, 23 November 2006, 3:04 pm | Hawkes Bay DHB
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board has set up a free 0800 number so Hawke’s Bay people can check whether their outpatient appointment or elective surgery has had to be postponed due to next week’s planned strike action by members of the Medical ... More >>
Contingency planning for strike action advanced
Thursday, 23 November 2006, 3:02 pm | Hawkes Bay DHB
Contingency planning at Hawke’s Bay District Health Board (HBDHB) is well underway to ensure minimum risk to patients and maintenance of urgent and acute care during the planned strike action by members of the Medical Laboratory Workers’ Union (MLWU). ... More >>
HBDHB takes part in Exercise Makgill
Friday, 10 November 2006, 9:23 am | Hawkes Bay DHB
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board staff will be put through their paces tomorrow (Thursday 9 November) as they take part in Exercise Makgill, a 12-hour pandemic planning exercise coordinated by the Ministry of Health. More >>
Deaf Awareness Week: 18- 24 September 2006
Tuesday, 19 September 2006, 11:43 am | Hawkes Bay DHB
Hawke’s Bay organisations which provide services for children with hearing loss have teamed up to promote Deaf Awareness Week. Spokesperson for the group, public health nurse, Cath Hedley, said early detection of hearing loss is essential to prevent ... More >>
Business as usual at HBDHB
Thursday, 14 September 2006, 4:37 pm | Hawkes Bay DHB
The strike by radiographers at seven District Health Boards does not include Hawke’s Bay District Health Board. More >>
Hawke’s Bay’s teleradiology service is safe
Monday, 4 September 2006, 10:07 am | Hawkes Bay DHB
Mr David Grayson, HBDHB’s Clinical Director surgery and quality and risk today reiterated that the after hours teleradiology service being trialled by the DHB for six months is safe. Says Mr Grayson “The radiologists employed by the company we ... More >>
Proposals for Integrated Laboratory Services
Tuesday, 4 July 2006, 1:28 pm | Hawkes Bay DHB
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board (HBDHB) chief executive, Chris Clarke, announced today that the DHB is calling for Requests for Proposals from community laboratories keen to work in partnership with the Hawke's Bay Hospital Laboratory to improve the ... More >>
HBDHB receives $175,000 Lion Foundation grant
Tuesday, 4 July 2006, 1:27 pm | Hawkes Bay DHB
Hawke's’ Bay District Health Board (HBDHB) are delighted to be recipients of a grant from The Lion Foundation to enable the purchase of specialised cardiac MRI equipment to help in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. More >>
