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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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Sneak peak at great immunisation rates
Wednesday, 25 August 2010, 9:42 am | Waikato District Health Board
Two Waikato primary health organisations worked tirelessly to immunise eligible two-year-olds and their 100 per cent strike rate helped the Waikato District Health Board achieve its immunisation health target and get an "outstanding" mark from the Health ... More >>
Team approach to helping people at home
Friday, 13 August 2010, 1:46 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Waikato District Health Board is to spend $1.2 million on a programme to provide and promote rehabilitation for patients 18 years and over within their home environment to keep them out of hospitals and residential care facilities. More >>
Telephone Service Still Aiding GPs
Tuesday, 10 August 2010, 3:04 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Te Kuiti GP Keith Buswell says a Waikato District Health Board-funded telephone triage service has changed the way GPs work in the King Country town for the better. More >>
New Director Of Clinical Units For Waikato
Tuesday, 10 August 2010, 10:08 am | Waikato District Health Board
Dr Phil Wood has this week stepped into a key medical leadership role for Waikato District Health Board, heading Waikato Hospital's clinical units. More >>
Launch brings two services together
Thursday, 5 August 2010, 5:33 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Two services, which currently operate separately within Waikato District Health Board’s provider arm of hospital and health services, are to come together in a new $42 million building at the Waikato Hospital campus. More >>
Putting pieces together in Orthopaedics
Tuesday, 3 August 2010, 1:23 pm | Waikato District Health Board
When Chris O’Meeghan came to Waikato Hospital to work as an orthopaedics registrar in the early 1990s, he thought it would only be for a short stint. More >>
Breastfeeding Welcome Here, Everywhere
Monday, 2 August 2010, 10:36 am | Waikato District Health Board
Mothers should feel free to breastfeed their babies, whenever and wherever they need to according to a local advocacy group. More >>
Records tumble at Waikato DHB hospital
Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 2:43 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Health Waikato broke records galore in the financial year just ended but the most satisfying for chief operating officer Jan Adams was the "break even" financial performance which she described as the first she could recall in her 14 years with Waikato DHB's ... More >>
Waikato Shallow Lakes Cyanobacterial Warning
Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 10:44 am | Waikato District Health Board
Monitoring results from late June 2010 have shown that the human health threat from cyanobacteria in Lake Whangape is now acceptably low. More >>
Taumarunui Gets the Message From CEO
Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 10:05 am | Waikato District Health Board
Waikato District Health Board chief executive Craig Climo says he wants to see more action out in the rural communities towards a more joined up health workforce. More >>
More Through Hospital Theatre Doors
Sunday, 25 July 2010, 11:35 am | Waikato District Health Board
The number of people receiving surgery at Waikato Hospital is set to rise with the opening of a new Elective Short Stay Surgical Unit on Monday. More >>
Stop Influenza in its Tracks
Wednesday, 21 July 2010, 11:50 am | Waikato District Health Board
There have been 10 cases of influenza A H1N1 notified to Waikato District Health Board’s Population Health service in the past fortnight. More >>
Chief Executve Shares Message in Rural Waikato
Tuesday, 20 July 2010, 11:01 am | Waikato District Health Board
Waikato District Health Board chief executive Craig Climo is presenting the rural health service delivery picture in Waikato communities starting this week. More >>
Surgery Rates On The Rise, Waiting Times Decrease
Friday, 16 July 2010, 3:50 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Cardiothoracic surgery throughput has reached an all time high at Waikato Hospital with more than 500 procedures completed in the last financial year.The final tally of 503 surgical procedures is a huge increase from the 350 annual average. More >>
New Telecommunications System For Hospital
Wednesday, 14 July 2010, 4:41 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Waikato Hospital, which has more than 6000 incoming telephone calls a day making it the country’s busiest hospital, is to get a new $2.25 million telecommunications system. More >>
Thames Hospital Gets Another Three Years
Monday, 12 July 2010, 1:25 pm | Waikato DHB
Thames Hospital has been granted another three years certification by the Ministry of Health. More >>
New Lab Information System for Waikato DHB
Monday, 5 July 2010, 11:00 am | Waikato District Health Board
Last week (Wednesday 30 June) Waikato District Health Board signed a NZ$2.95 million deal with iSOFT for a laboratory information system to improve the speed, accuracy and reporting of 6.5 million test results a year. More >>
Hamilton Student Takes Out Top Prize
Saturday, 3 July 2010, 1:29 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Hamilton student Julia King took out the prestigious first prize at the annual Transfusion art awards in Hamilton tonight with her Ohiwa Dunes oil landscape painting. More >>
Quality care until the bitter end
Thursday, 1 July 2010, 4:03 pm | Waikato District Health Board
If you ask Sandra Haggar how she came to take an interest in palliative care nursing, she will tell you it was by default but it’s as if it was supposed to be. More >>
Pacific Fono Addresses Health Concerns
Thursday, 1 July 2010, 9:20 am | Waikato District Health Board
Waikato District Health Board, Pacific health providers and churches from throughout the region are joining forces to improve the health of Pacific people. More >>
