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Port Workers’ Vaccination A Milestone Towards Protection
Friday, 26 February 2021, 3:08 pm | Nelson Marlborough Health
Front-line Port Nelson and Port Marlborough workers will be the first in our region to receive COVID-19 vaccine, starting on 1 March and 3 March respectively. The people they live with will also be vaccinated and, with the two doses required for all parties ... More >>
Holiday Season Health And Wellbeing
Tuesday, 22 December 2020, 8:48 am | Nelson Marlborough Health
As the summer holiday season gets underway Nelson Marlborough Health (NMH) wants people to stay well but to also know where to go if they become ill or are injured. We encourage people to get the healthcare they need while saving the hospital emergency ... More >>
Five People Hospitalised With Legionnaires’ Disease This Month
Monday, 30 November 2020, 10:30 am | Nelson Marlborough Health
Gardeners are being warned to protect themselves against Legionnaire’s disease after five people have been hospitalised with the disease in this month alone. Of the five cases: four were in the Tasman district and one in Marlborough one patient ... More >>
Pop-up COVID-19 Testing This Friday – No Symptoms Required
Wednesday, 21 October 2020, 3:07 pm | Nelson Marlborough Health
A pop-up COVID-19 testing station will be available in the Wakatu Square carpark in Nelson from 9am until 4pm on Friday 23 October. “We would like to test people, whether they have symptoms or not, as part of our ongoing testing strategy to ensure ... More >>
Visiting Restrictions To Nelson Marlborough Health Hospitals Revised
Thursday, 30 April 2020, 3:15 pm | Nelson Marlborough Health
More people are now allowed to visit patients in Wairau and Nelson hospitals under a revised visitors’ policy relating to the COVID-19 alert levels. One family member or support person may now visit one patient at a time. Lexie O’Shea, Incident Controller, ... More >>
Strengthening The Coronavirus Response With Community-based Assessment Centres
Thursday, 19 March 2020, 11:15 am | Nelson Marlborough Health
Nelson Marlborough Health (NMH) has partnered with the Nelson Bays Primary Health Organisation, the Marlborough Primary Health Organisation and regional emergency management groups to establish community based assessment centres (CBACs) to support ... More >>
New MRI Scanner Improves Patient Comfort And Wait Times
Monday, 2 March 2020, 10:58 am | Nelson Marlborough Health
More capability, less noise and the ability for patients to listen to music are all benefits of the new Siemens scanner for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) installed at Nelson Hospital. The new Siemens 1.5T Sola MRI system was installed last year ... More >>
Legionnaires’ disease on the rise
Friday, 22 November 2019, 11:16 am | Nelson Marlborough Health
Gardeners are being warned to protect themselves against Legionnaire’s disease after three cases in just eight days were confirmed in the Tasman region, and after an associated death in Dunedin last month. More >>
New laboratory services contract a better deal
Friday, 30 August 2019, 11:28 am | Nelson Marlborough Health
A new laboratory service partnership officially launches today between Nelson Marlborough Health, Southern DHB and Nelson Marlborough DHBs and Southern Community Laboratories (SCL). More >>
The ‘flu season is hitting hard and fast
Wednesday, 15 May 2019, 2:19 pm | Nelson Marlborough Health
If you haven’t had your free flu vaccination, now is the time to do so – and urgently – as the flu season starts to hit the community hard and fast. More >>
Retailer sold cigarettes illegally to minor in Tasman
Thursday, 18 April 2019, 1:49 pm | Nelson Marlborough Health
A tobacco retailer in the Tasman area has sold cigarettes to a 15-year-old volunteer in a tobacco controlled purchase operation which was undertaken by the Nelson Marlborough Public Health Service (PHS) this week. More >>
Nelson Marlborough Health prepares for NZRDA strike
Tuesday, 8 January 2019, 9:45 am | Nelson Marlborough Health
Nelson Marlborough Health (NMH) is preparing contingency plans to minimise disruption to the public during the planned nationwide strike of Resident Medical Officers (doctors in training) who are covered by the New Zealand Resident Doctors' Association (NZRDA) ... More >>
Your healthcare options during the holiday season
Wednesday, 12 December 2018, 1:37 pm | Nelson Marlborough Health
Nelson Marlborough Health (NMH) is running a campaign to help people get the healthcare they may need over the holiday season. More >>
2018 Health Innovation Awards
Friday, 30 November 2018, 2:12 pm | Nelson Marlborough Health
A project that helps Columbian refugees to settle into Nelson and cope with the change is the overall winner in the 2018 Health Innovation Awards (HIA). More >>
Murchison Health Centre to join Nelson Bays Primary Health
Wednesday, 19 September 2018, 3:39 pm | Nelson Marlborough Health
Murchison Health Centre is joining Nelson Bays Primary Health, the primary health organisation (PHO) that organises and delivers primary and community health services across the Nelson and Tasman district. More >>
Well Child app 2.0
Tuesday, 18 September 2018, 2:33 pm | Nelson Marlborough Health
An app that helps New Zealand whānau transition into parenthood has had an upgrade. More >>
Counting down to the start of bowel cancer screening
Wednesday, 1 August 2018, 2:50 pm | Nelson Marlborough Health
Counting down to the start of bowel cancer screening ________________________________________ After more than a year in the planning, Nelson Marlborough Health (NMH) is two weeks away from launching the National Bowel Screening Programme in the region. More >>
Local mums celebrate breastfeeding
Tuesday, 31 July 2018, 10:21 am | Nelson Marlborough Health
The benefits of breastfeeding on the health and welfare of babies is the focus of the 2018 World Breastfeeding Week, 1-7 August. The slogan for this year is ‘Breastfeeding: Foundation of Life’. More >>
Increase of campylobacteriosis cases in Nelson Marlborough
Tuesday, 10 July 2018, 3:34 pm | Nelson Marlborough Health
There has been an increase in campylobacteriosis case notifications in the last four weeks in the Nelson Marlborough region. More >>
Nelson Marlborough Health to reduce services
Tuesday, 10 July 2018, 1:48 pm | Nelson Marlborough Health
Nelson Marlborough Health to reduce services during workers’ strike Nelson Marlborough Health (NMH) is preparing to close most hospital elective services on 12 July due a nationwide strike by nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants who are covered ... More >>
