Choose Well This Holiday Period
Hawke’s Bay people and visitors are encouraged to Choose Well for health care this Christmas/New Year holiday period.
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Hawke’s Bay people and visitors are encouraged to Choose Well for health care this Christmas/New Year holiday period.
The Speech and Language Therapy Department assess, diagnose, treat, report and provide advice for adult patients with communication and swallowing disorders.
Our aim is to maximise communication potential and promote management of swallowing difficulties.
We provide services to inpatients, outpatients and community patients within Hawke’s Bay.
Immunisation is one of the most effective ways of helping people stay well and free from many diseases. It is recommended by the World Health Organization, the New Zealand Ministry of Health and medical authorities. There is information here about the National Immunisation Programme.
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board takes great care to ensure the privacy of your health information is respected.
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board is supporting a worldwide campaign to stamp out viral hepatitis and raise awareness to find an estimated 25,000 New Zealanders who go undiagnosed with Hepatitis C. Hepatitis C is a highly infectious virus that is spread through blood-to-blood contact.
Hawke’s Bay health officials are seeing an increase in Whooping Cough (Pertussis) which poses serious risks for babies and children – especially those aged under 1 years.
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board, Central Hawke’s Bay’s Mayor and the Central Hawke’s Bay Health Liaison Group have reached agreement, with the district health board agreeing to defer the temporary closure of the Central Hawke’s Bay Health Centre’s ward beds over the Christmas holiday period.
Presentations to accident and medical centres continue to increase. Yesterday 183 people presented to a GP and Hawke’s Bay Hospital had 11 people present overnight, two were admitted.
Hawke’s Bay Hospital is facing unprecedented demand on hospital services, especially acute surgeries, forcing it to cancel some elective surgeries over the coming days.
New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) members have rejected the revised pay offer from DHBs and given notice of industrial action. Nursing, midwifery and healthcare assistants covered by the NZNO Multi Employment Collective Agreement (MECA) have issued notice, to all district health boards, of a full withdrawal of labour.