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DHB candidate to ‘rip up’ useless food policy
Wednesday, 9 October 2019, 8:58 am | Letitia Isa
Capital & Coast District Health Board candidate, Letitia Isa, will rip up the DHB’s useless ‘food policy’ that does not apply to patients in its own care and where “no information is collected” on the cost, dietary value and quality ... More >>
DHB extracts $7.2 million in parking fees over three-years
Monday, 7 October 2019, 3:41 pm | Letitia Isa
The Capital & Coast District Health Board is wrongly extracting millions of dollars each year in parking fees from patients, families and hospital staff; $143,966 from Accident & Emergency parking in 2018/19 alone. More >>
CCDHB to ditch Ronald McDonald Family Room?
Thursday, 3 October 2019, 2:20 pm | Letitia Isa
Capital & Coast District Health Board looks like it will block a Ronald McDonald Family room in the new Wellington Children’s hospital with the DHB to use health money on “Whānau rooms” instead. More >>
DHB spending millions of dollars on long haull trips
Friday, 27 September 2019, 8:55 am | Letitia Isa
Capital and Coast DHB’s carbon footprinting has inadvertently revealed hundreds of long-haul business class trips being the DHBs second largest source of carbon emissions. More >>
DHB has just 1.4 staff for child patient mental health
Wednesday, 18 September 2019, 8:48 am | Letitia Isa
The Capital and Coast District Health Board (CCDHB) has been labelled ‘NATO’ (no action, talk only) when it comes to child mental health, with just 0.6 full time staff (24 hours per week) for inpatient child psychology and just 0.8 full time staff ... More >>
Non-working Isolation rooms at Childrens Hospital a Timebomb
Thursday, 12 September 2019, 9:14 am | Letitia Isa
Wellington Capital and Coast DHB candidate, Letitia Isa, is challenging the DHB to come clean over the lack of working isolation rooms at Wellington’s Children’s Hospital. “A serious disease like measles is no respecter of deferred maintenance ... More >>
New Zealand mishears the world on food
Monday, 1 October 2012, 10:20 am | Letitia Isa
In a major admission to Massey University’s Executive MBA students by the World Bank in New York, New Zealand’s policy makers’ misunderstanding of ‘Food Safety,’ may be adding thousands of dollars to the individual cost of agricultural production ... More >>