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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 34]
New transport role helps people get to services
Friday, 22 July 2011, 2:09 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Getting to health services and hospital appointments will soon be a lot easier for Hauraki and Thames residents, thanks to the combined efforts of community, district, regional and national organisations. More >>
New Waikato Hospital medical wards now open
Wednesday, 20 July 2011, 9:24 am | Waikato District Health Board
Hamilton's Peggy Sweeny was well prepared for her move from the old to the new at Waikato Hospital today. More >>
Waikato DHB extends Pathlab agreement by two years
Friday, 15 July 2011, 3:41 pm | Waikato DHB
Waikato District Health Board has extended its contract with Pathology Associates (Pathlab) until 30 June 2015 to aid in staff recruitment and retention for the community laboratory provider and to minimise cost risks for the DHB. More >>
Taumarunui Hospital's $60,000 kitchen reopened
Thursday, 14 July 2011, 4:27 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Taumarunui kaumatua Harry Kereopa was told 15 years ago he was going to die but thanks to the surgical skills of Waikato Hospital cardiologist Clyde Wade, he is still alive and kicking. So when Kereopa caught up with Dr Wade yesterday at the re-opening of ... More >>
21st birthday for revolutionary heart treatment at Waikato
Thursday, 14 July 2011, 11:48 am | Waikato District Health Board
Waikato Hospital is celebrating 21 years of coronary angioplasty, the procedure that revolutionised the treatment of heart disease saving thousands of lives. More >>
Prime Minister gives cheque to Westpac Waikato air ambulance
Monday, 11 July 2011, 2:34 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Prime Minister John Key and local Hamilton MPs Tim MacIndoe and David Bennett visited the Westpac Waikato hangar on the Waiora Waikato Hospital campus last week to present a cheque to go towards a new air ambulance. More >>
Record year for BreastScreen Midland
Friday, 8 July 2011, 12:56 pm | Waikato District Health Board
BreastScreen Midland performed a record 33,000 screening mammograms in the financial year just ended – just over an eight per cent increase on two years ago. Manager Clare Coles puts the increase down to a more consistent performance across the whole ... More >>
Taumarunui Hospital kitchen has a makeover
Thursday, 7 July 2011, 12:45 pm | Waikato District Health Board
It will be a special day for the kitchen staff who have had to make do with temporary facilities amid the noise and bustle of construction. It will also be an opportunity to congratulate kitchen assistant Joy Savage who celebrates 40 years of service at ... More >>
Statement from the family of Shaun Malthus
Friday, 1 July 2011, 3:08 pm | Waikato District Health Board
The family of the 13-year-old boy in a critical condition in Waikato Hospital’s intensive care unit say they’re grateful for the support of family, friends and the Hamilton Boys High School community. More >>
A career in health offers wonderful opportunities
Tuesday, 28 June 2011, 1:36 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Nearly 200 students from a number of Waikato and Bay of Plenty secondary schools had the chance to see if health is the career for them when they attended Waikato District Health Board's workchoice day today (Monday 27 June). More >>
Welsh doctor wants to improve women's health
Sunday, 26 June 2011, 7:02 pm | Waikato District Health Board
From his offices on the ninth floor of the Elizabeth Rothwell Building at Waikato Hospital, the Welsh doctor looks out over Lake Rotoroa and Hamilton City. More >>
Top art student wins Transfusion art competition
Friday, 24 June 2011, 7:54 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Hamilton Boys High School student Simon Blanchett won the Waikato DHB-supported Transfusion art competition in Hamilton tonight and received the top prize of a year’s free tuition at Wintec. More than 150 year 12 and 13 painting students from around ... More >>
Mothers and babies in good hands with Gina
Friday, 24 June 2011, 2:39 pm | Waikato District Health Board
“It’s always different, you never know what you will get in a day,” says Gina, who works as a senior midwife and Delivery Suite coordinator at Waikato Hospital. It’s a busy place day or night, with 3615 babies delivered at the hospital last ... More >>
Providing marae with accessibility tools
Friday, 24 June 2011, 2:14 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Waikato District Health Board is part of a wider group, striving to improve accessibility to Waikato marae for people living with disabilities. A Marae Accessibility Project Group was established as a sub-group to Te Roopu Tiaki Hunga Hauaa Maori Disability ... More >>
Patient update - Cambridge couple
Wednesday, 22 June 2011, 5:21 pm | Waikato District Health Board
"The family would like to warmly thank everyone who stopped to offer assistance, the emergency services and staff of Waikato Hospital. More >>
Doctor's Return Boosts Services at Waikato Hospital
Tuesday, 21 June 2011, 5:24 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Waikato Hospital now has the widest range of complex endoscopy intervention anywhere in the country with the return of former clinical director of gastroenterology Dr Frank Weilert from a 14-month stint in the US. More >>
Aussie nurse makes Taumarunui home
Tuesday, 21 June 2011, 2:06 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Barely pausing for a breath, she talks about starting a career in health at age 14 as a volunteer, her OE in Europe and settling in the Coromandel with her Kiwi husband Carl, who was at first just a flatmate and friend before one day they looked at each ... More >>
Cancer patients get dedicated service
Wednesday, 15 June 2011, 10:03 am | Waikato District Health Board
A regional initiative launched today involving Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Lakes district health boards will result in an improved service for cancer patients undergoing treatment in Hamilton. More >>
Cyanobacterial warning update North Waikato lakes
Wednesday, 8 June 2011, 1:17 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Health warnings remain in place for four of the five regularly tested lakes outside Hamilton. The warning has been lifted only for Whangape. More >>
Acute Services Building handed over
Wednesday, 8 June 2011, 11:29 am | Waikato District Health Board
Builders have handed over the keys to the $48 million Acute Services Building at Waiora Waikato Hospital campus in Hamilton and now the work begins in earnest to get the second and third floors of the facility up and running in six weeks. More >>
