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Waikato District Health Board
Healthy People. Excellent Care
Waikato District Health Board (DHB) employs over 6500 people and plans, funds and provides hospital and health services to more than 391,770 people in a region covering eight per cent of New Zealand.
Waikato District Health Board - Latest News [Page 15]
World’s Smallest Cardiac Monitor Implant a Success
Monday, 9 June 2014, 1:55 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Taranaki woman Susan Mundt (43) was the first recipient in New Zealand of the world’s smallest cardiac monitor at Waikato Hospital this morning. More >>
Waikato First with Smallest Cardiac Monitor Operation
Monday, 9 June 2014, 10:21 am | Waikato District Health Board
Clinicians at Waikato Hospital are the first experts in New Zealand to implant the world’s smallest cardiac monitor, which is capable of wirelessly diagnosing potentially dangerous irregular heartbeats. More >>
Waikato Taking Action on Maternal Smoking
Thursday, 5 June 2014, 10:17 am | Waikato District Health Board
New Zealand’s high rate of smoking during pregnancy is a public health emergency, says Waikato District Health Board public health physician Nina Scott. The figures don’t paint a pretty picture with almost one in five Waikato mothers smoking during ... More >>
NZ-First Procedure a Success at Waikato
Friday, 23 May 2014, 2:15 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Waikato Hospital’s Cardiology team have successfully performed a New Zealand-first hybrid coronary revascularisation on a 54-year-old Tokoroa man. Michael Lucas is the first New Zealand patient to undergo this procedure in Waikato Hospital’s new ... More >>
Waikato DHB’s Rees Tapsell Honoured at Australian Conference
Tuesday, 13 May 2014, 4:14 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Waikato DHB’s Rees Tapsell Honoured at Australian Conference Dr Rees Tohiteururangi Tapsell was awarded the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Mark Sheldon Prize at the College’s Annual Congress in Perth last night. The Mark ... More >>
Brenda Pearson is Waikato’s Nurse of the Year
Monday, 12 May 2014, 10:10 am | Waikato District Health Board
Brenda Pearson wanted to mark the milestone of turning 50 by joining her sister Vanessa sipping champagne at the top of the Eiffel Tower while watching the sunset over Paris. More >>
Paediatric Enrolled Nurse Still Passionate After 36 Years
Sunday, 11 May 2014, 6:45 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Ask Kate Phillips if she enjoys nursing and the answer comes in one word, “passionately”. The Hamilton enrolled nurse doesn’t even call what she does a job, to her it is a vocation something she feels privileged to be doing four days a week at Waikato ... More >>
Waikato’s Nurse of the Year Announced Tomorrow
Sunday, 11 May 2014, 6:39 pm | Waikato District Health Board
A nurse nominated by her peers who demonstrates the skills, knowledge, caring and compassion at a level that exceeds the norm will tomorrow, on International Nurses Day, be acknowledged by Sue Hayward, Waikato District Health Board’s director of ... More >>
Waikato ‘Flu Jabs’ Rates Looking Promising
Thursday, 8 May 2014, 1:37 pm | Waikato District Health Board
The number of Waikato people who have been immunised against influenza this year is already the second highest in six years, with nearly three months to go. Just over 76,000 people – or 20 per cent of the Waikato population – had their ‘flu ... More >>
Midland Region Celebrates International Midwives Day
Monday, 5 May 2014, 2:09 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Midland midwives have extra reason to celebrate International Midwives Day today (5 May), with a new midwifery emergency refresher course they have designed being approved for national roll-out. A group of maternity educators, a subgroup of the ... More >>
Dr Haslam Retires From Birthing Babies After 44 Years
Friday, 2 May 2014, 2:40 pm | Waikato District Health Board
He’s played a part in the births of hundreds of babies, but after 44 years Waikato gynaecology and obstetrics specialist Alastair Haslam is hanging up his white coat. But not before he was honoured with Emeritus Consultant status – a privilege only ... More >>
Waikato DHB Sisters Brave Rare Cancer Gene
Tuesday, 29 April 2014, 12:16 pm | Waikato DHB
Hamilton sisters Amber Argaet, 34, and Tara Ellingham, 32, have seen their fair-share of injury and illness during their14 years with Waikato District Health Board. More >>
Early Diagnosis Meant Turning the Volume up
Thursday, 24 April 2014, 3:53 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Four-year-old Nadia Esfahani’s life was changed by the Waikato District Health Board’s Newborn Hearing Screening Programme, which is currently celebrating its 10th year. Shortly after Nadia was born she was diagnosed with hearing loss, and ... More >>
The Sooner The Better If You’re Having a Baby
Thursday, 24 April 2014, 3:12 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Less pregnant women living in the Hauraki region register with a midwife as early as they should compared with the rest of the Waikato District Health Board region. While an average of 67.3 per cent of pregnant women in the Waikato DHB region registers ... More >>
Midlands Marae to Receive Safe Sleep Devices
Wednesday, 16 April 2014, 12:32 pm | Waikato District Health Board
The sad tale of the death of a five-month Wellington baby of Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI) reported this morning is the exact reason iwi in the Midland Region are being issued safe sleep devices. More >>
Women Distressed by Pregnancy Termination Protestors
Monday, 14 April 2014, 10:08 am | Waikato District Health Board
Informed Women Distressed by Pregnancy Termination Protestors Waikato District Health Board social worker Jo Oliver-Clarke says women going into Thames Hospital before and after undergoing termination of pregnancy procedures are distressed by a group ... More >>
Waikato Doctor Receives Top National Prize
Friday, 11 April 2014, 3:03 pm | Waikato DHB
Accolades for the Waikato nurse practitioner behind the life changing Sugar Babies study just keep coming. Dr Deborah Harris’ thesis on neonatal hypoglycaemia has received a University of Auckland’s Vice Chancellor’s Prize for Best Doctoral ... More >>
Health warning for Lake Ngaroto
Monday, 7 April 2014, 4:45 pm | Waikato District Health Board
A new health warning has been issued today for Lake Ngaroto, near Te Awamutu. The lake has had a rise in the number of cyanobacteria cells and a rise in biovolume since last tested one month previously. Biovolume is the measure used to decide when ... More >>
Countdown Staff Visit Waikids Services
Monday, 7 April 2014, 3:29 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Countdown staff visited Waikato Hospital last week to see what their hard fundraising efforts had bought in the latest funding round of the Countdown Kids Hospital Appeal. In the six years that the appeal has been running, Waikato Hospital’s Neonatal ... More >>
Dr Gerry Devlin Re-Appointed Clinical Unit Leader for CCTV
Wednesday, 2 April 2014, 4:38 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Waikato DHB has announced the re-appointment of Dr Gerry Devlin as clinical unit leader of the Cardiology, Cardiothoracic and Vascular cluster at Waikato Hospital. More >>
