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Waikato District Health Board
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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.
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Waikato Hospital Returns Plea
Monday, 14 February 2011, 10:56 am | Waikato District Health Board
Waikato District Health Board is appealing to its previous and current patients to return hospital equipment once they’re finished with it. Over a three month period, Waikato Hospital’s Physiotherapy Department loses anywhere from 100-150 pairs of ... More >>
Nurse practitioner for Taumarunui Hospital
Friday, 11 February 2011, 10:47 am | Waikato District Health Board
Taumarunui Hospital’s first nurse practitioner will start later this month. Jane Jeffcoat, from Australia, completed her nursing training in Sydney and has held a number of nursing positions during her career including clinical nurse specialist ... More >>
New Waikato Hospital Emergency Department Now Open
Tuesday, 8 February 2011, 3:32 pm | Waikato District Health Board
After a quick cut of a ribbon and a few cheers, Waikato Hospital’s new Emergency Department opened its doors at 8am this morning. Nine-month-old Patrick Collins from Auckland and his mother Tina Sales (pictured right) were happy to take the first-patient ... More >>
Toxins detected along the Coromandel and Bay of Plenty coast
Monday, 7 February 2011, 3:57 pm | Waikato District Health Board
The health warning, first issued back in December 2009, advising against the collection and consumption of shellfish along much of the Coromandel and Bay of Plenty coastline remains in place, but the geographic extent of it has been reduced. More >>
Working together regionally to avoid broken record syndrome
Monday, 7 February 2011, 3:05 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Waikato District Health Board is working with its Midland Region partners in Lakes and Taranaki DHBs to improve recordkeeping practice. Waikato DHB’s corporate records advisors have been making weekly trips to Rotorua Hospital since March 2010 to provide ... More >>
Waikato DHB recovers money from doctor
Saturday, 5 February 2011, 6:57 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Waikato District Health Board has recovered $143,400 from a doctor who was being paid as a fulltime employee while working two days every week in private practice. More >>
Oral Health Practitioners Highlight Decay
Friday, 4 February 2011, 10:51 am | Waikato District Health Board
The School Dental Service 'Big day in' programme was held recently at Waikato Hospital’s Bryant Education Centre Auditorium (programme attached). The programme themed 'Early childhood caries from start to finish", was an outstanding success with demand exceeding ... More >>
St John rose planted in new ED
Friday, 4 February 2011, 9:45 am | Waikato DHB
A white rose gifted to Waikato District Health Board by St John last year to commemorate its 125th anniversary, now has a home in Waikato Hospital's new emergency department. Nurse Bea Retter will keep a close eye on the rose which Health Waikato chief operating ... More >>
Dr Jack Havill honoured by Waikato DHB
Monday, 31 January 2011, 11:16 am | Waikato District Health Board
A former Waikato Hospital Intensive Care Unit clinical director and board member is the latest member of the elite Waikato District Health Board emeritus consultants club. Dr Jack Havill is one of only five other Waikato DHB clinical staff since 2005 ... More >>
A Year of Change for School Dental Service
Friday, 28 January 2011, 3:12 pm | Waikato District Health Board
The blessing of Waikato District Health Board’s newest mobile dental clinic today at \Waikato Hospital marks the start of a significant year of changes for its School Dental Service. The van is the second of nine to be produced over the next 12 months ... More >>
Doctors Test Out New Emergency Department
Thursday, 27 January 2011, 10:50 am | Waikato District Health Board
A patient simulator put junior doctors to the test at Waikato Hospital this week by helping to orientate them in the new Emergency Department. The interactive and realistic wireless mannequin, known as SimMan, took part in four real-life emergency ... More >>
Waikato Hospital patient condition updates - Monday am
Monday, 24 January 2011, 11:13 am | Waikato District Health Board
The 58-year-old Hamilton man shot during an aggravated robbery in Hamilton on Saturday night improved overnight. He continues to be in a serious but stable condition in Waikato Hospital's intensive care unit. More >>
Waikato Hospital Medical Updates
Sunday, 23 January 2011, 9:38 pm | Waikato District Health Board
A 19-year-old Rotorua man is in critical condition in Waikato Hospital's intensive care unit after a three car crash on State Highway 2, Maramarua at 4pm today. More >>
GP trial at Thames starts well
Wednesday, 19 January 2011, 10:24 am | Waikato District Health Board
None of the patients fast tracked through Thames Hospital's emergency department by a general practitioner as part of a three-month pilot required a referral to emergency department specialists. The pilot began in Thames on 8 January where Thames Medical ... More >>
Gang regalia banned at Waikato Hospital
Tuesday, 11 January 2011, 2:50 pm | Waikato District Health Board
A report in one media outlet today wrongly suggested a Waikato Hospital ban on gang regalia came about because of an incident in the hospital's emergency department earlier this month. More >>
Waikato Hospital Visiting hours confirmed after trial
Monday, 10 January 2011, 3:09 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Visiting hours at Waikato Hospital will remain from 11am-1.30pm and 4pm-8pm following a four-month trial period. Waikato District Health Board director of nursing and midwifery Sue Hayward confirmed the times today and released details of other visiting ... More >>
Waikato cardiac physiologist a world beater
Monday, 10 January 2011, 10:34 am | Waikato DHB
Sacha Levings, a clinical cardiac physiologist at Waikato Hospital, is in the top six per cent of her profession in the world after sitting her International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners exam. More >>
Injured bus driver off life support
Wednesday, 5 January 2011, 7:31 pm | Waikato District Health Board
The 52-year-old Hamilton bus driver trapped under his bus outside Waikato Hospital's carpark building last week is now off life support in the hospital's intensive care unit and in a stable condition in the high dependency unit. More >>
15-year-old Reporoa boy in a stable condition
Friday, 31 December 2010, 3:49 pm | Waikato District Health Board
A 15-year-old Reporoa boy is in a stable condition in a ward at Waikato Hospital today. More >>
Bus Driver's Family Thanks Public
Thursday, 30 December 2010, 5:35 pm | Waikato District Health Board
The family of Hamilton bus driver Ross McSheffrey, 52, today publicly thanked all those who helped at Waikato Hospital yesterday after he was trapped under his bus outside the hospital’s carpark building. More >>
