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Pacific Health Plus Calls For Pacific Communities To Urgently Prepare In Case Of COVID Outbreak
Wednesday, 12 August 2020, 3:03 pm | Pacific Health Plus
John Fiso, chairman of Pacific Health Plus and the Pacific Leaders Group, is urging Pacific communities to prepare in case of a COVID-19 outbreak. “Medical and other resources must be quickly assessed and mobilised to ensure our communities, and providers ... More >>
College Students Raise Funds For Pacific Healthcare Provider In Porirua & Give Back To The Community
Wednesday, 15 July 2020, 11:57 am | Pacific Health Plus
In June, 68 students from Porirua College raised funds and chose to donate them to public healthcare provider Pacific Health Plus (PHP) by walking circuits of the neighbourhood, laps of their school field, and doing dance videos in class ... More >>
Pacific Health+ First Health Practice In Wellington To Use In-house Rapid Blood Testing For Diabetes
Monday, 8 June 2020, 10:15 am | Pacific Health Plus
The standard process for getting your blood tested and results back can take a number of days. And in some communities, this lapse can be the difference between life and death. Pacific Health Plus (PHP), a primary healthcare provider in the low socio-economic ... More >>
Porirua Health Business Takes PPE Supply Into Its Own Hands After Delay
Thursday, 28 May 2020, 11:50 am | Pacific Health Plus
Following a delay in delivery of essential personal protective equipment, owners of Pacific Health Plus (PHP) in Cannons Creek, Eastern Porirua, decided to take matters into their own hands. “During lockdown we realised that we did not have sufficient ... More >>
Pacific Health Plus Partners With Pasifika Future To Distribute Care Packages To Elderly And Ill
Wednesday, 15 April 2020, 2:45 pm | Pacific Health Plus
Pacific Health Plus (PHP), a Pacific Primary Healthcare service, in Cannons Creek, in partnership with Pasifika Futures, is helping the most vulnerable in the community get the food and personal items they need during COVID-19 lockdown. Lee Pearce, Director ... More >>
PHP Porirua Teams Up With NZ Artist Michael Tuffery To Communicate COVID-19 Preventative Measures
Friday, 3 April 2020, 5:01 pm | Pacific Health Plus
Pacific Health Plus (PHP), a Pacific Primary Healthcare service, in Cannons Creek, East Porirua, is using artwork by Wellington-based, Pasifika artist, Michel Tuffery to help inform communities about best practice hygiene for keeping safe from the ... More >>
Pacific Health Plus sends medical volunteers to Samoa
Tuesday, 10 December 2019, 4:47 pm | Pacific Health Plus
In response to the measles crises in Samoa, Porirua-based primary health care provider, Pacific Health Plus , in a joint project with Pacific Cooperation Foundation , are sending two staff to assist medical teams in Samoa. More >>
Pacific Health Plus volunteers travel to Samoa
Tuesday, 10 December 2019, 10:43 am | Pacific Health Plus
In response to the measles crises in Samoa, Porirua-based primary health care provider, Pacific Health Plus, in a joint project with Pacific Cooperation Foundation, are sending two staff to assist medical teams in Samoa. More >>
Understanding and sharing the science of sugar
Thursday, 21 November 2019, 2:18 pm | Pacific Health Plus
For the first time ever in Wellington, research among high school age Pacific students will be done to understand absorption rates of sugar. The research is being done in Porirua and surrounding areas through a partnership between the Maurice Wilkins ... More >>
Otago University partners with Pacific Health Plus
Friday, 15 November 2019, 12:32 pm | Pacific Health Plus
Over the next ten weeks four medical and health students from Otago University will work at Pacific Health Plus, a primary healthcare service, in Cannons Creek, Porirua, on a research project to better understand patients, their families and the community. More >>
Budget: Less than 1% for so-called pacific priority
Friday, 31 May 2019, 9:18 am | Pacific Health Plus
Budget 2019: less than 1% allocated for the so-called priority area of ‘supporting Pasifika aspirations More >>
Successful launch of Pacific health research partnership
Thursday, 11 April 2019, 3:49 pm | Pacific Health Plus
Last Friday, a group of over 120 people gathered on a cold, blustery Autumn night in a hall above a burnt out pub on Bedford Street in Cannons Creek, Porirua, to hear about a ground-breaking project to change health outcomes in one of the neediest ... More >>
Ground-breaking research partnership in Porirua
Monday, 1 April 2019, 9:20 am | Pacific Health Plus
Pacific Health Plus and the Maurice Wilkins Centre are pleased to announce a joint research initiative to improve the health of Pacific people in New Zealand. More >>