Bupa purchase brain injury rehabilitation business
Thursday 31 May 2012, 4:24PMOne of New Zealand’s largest aged care providers Bupa Care Services is expanding into brain injury rehabilitation
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Canterbury pharmacists authorised to prescribe and dispense NRT
Thursday 31 May 2012, 11:40AMThe Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand (the Guild) has welcomed the decision that Canterbury community pharmacists are now able to prescribe and dispense Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT). This decision came into effect from 1 May 2012
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Southern Cross steps up contracting directly with medical providers
Thursday 31 May 2012, 11:27AMNew Zealand’s largest health insurer has entered into over 120 new Affiliated Provider agreements in the last two years, and says it intends to take an even more active role in managing the rising cost of healthcare in the future
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PHARMAC moves to streamline access to Pharmaceutical Schedule
Thursday 31 May 2012, 11:21AMPHARMAC is moving to streamline access to the Pharmaceutical Schedule, the list of medicines funded by the Government
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Tide turns against tobacco as young Northlanders turn away
Wednesday 30 May 2012, 4:48PM2012 has seen a record jump in the number of young New Zealanders turning away from tobacco
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Arthritis - another reason to be smokefree
Wednesday 30 May 2012, 3:59PMOn World Smokefree Day (31 May 2012), Arthritis New Zealand Chief Executive Sandra Kirby reminds people that rheumatoid arthritis is another reason to be smokefree
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Daily smoking drops dramatically among West Coast Year 10s
Wednesday 30 May 2012, 2:47PMThe latest Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) Year 10 smoking survey shows that daily smoking rates among West Coasters aged 14-15 years have dropped massively in the last 12 years, from 22.5% to 4.3% last year
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First symposium for Gut Health Network
Wednesday 30 May 2012, 2:45PMA variety of medical disorders which all appear to originate in the gut will be the focus of the first annual symposium of the recently formed Gut Health Network which take places at the University of Otago this Friday
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WHO hits back at the tobacco industry
Wednesday 30 May 2012, 2:44PMManila, 30 May 2012 - The World Health Organization (WHO) marks World No Tobacco Day (31 May) with a call to resist the tobacco industry's increasingly aggressive attempts to undermine laws that protect people from the harms of tobacco
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CDHB asks for the return of unused hospital equipment
Wednesday 30 May 2012, 1:53PMThe Canterbury District Health Board is asking for the return of overdue hospital equipment, to ensure its hospitals are well-stocked over the winter
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Canterbury Health System: impressive post-quake performance
Wednesday 30 May 2012, 1:29PMCanterbury’s Health System continues to achieve national health targets despite ongoing quake related challenges
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NZ Quit Smoking Game Launches on World Smokefree Day
Wednesday 30 May 2012, 11:25AMNew Zealanders wanting to quit smoking can now use a free web and mobile application called Goalpost
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Quitline Launches Facebook Page on World Smokefree Day
Wednesday 30 May 2012, 11:22AMQuitline has launched a new Facebook page www.facebook.com/quitlinenz to coincide with this year’s World Smokefree Day (Thursday 31 May)
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Focus on Family for Smokefree Day 2012
Wednesday 30 May 2012, 11:21AMSmoking is “incredibly destructive to our people’s health, massively expensive for our country and detrimental to our communities” says Auckland Mayor, Len Brown. Aucklanders seem to agree, if the drive towards a Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 is anything to go by
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Waitemata DHB Continues To Lead The Way
Wednesday 30 May 2012, 9:20AMaitemata DHB continues to lead the way in performance against the Government’s national health targets
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Eat Healthily and Save this Winter
Wednesday 30 May 2012, 9:15AMWinter often brings grey and gloomy weather but it doesn’t mean our health has to hit the doldrums
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Free Testing Service at New South Auckland Clinic
Wednesday 30 May 2012, 9:13AMThe New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF) has set up an outreach clinic to provide rapid testing services to South Auckland communities
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Flu shots race towards million mark
Tuesday 29 May 2012, 4:02PMNew Zealanders are taking up flu vaccination in droves this year. The number of doses distributed so far this year in New Zealand has just passed the 910,000 mark
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Pharmac moves to protect babies from whooping cough
Tuesday 29 May 2012, 2:19PMPHARMAC will extend funding to a type of antibiotic that can be used to treat and prevent pertussis (whooping cough) in children under one
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Give quitting a go; give your lungs a chance
Tuesday 29 May 2012, 1:44PMEven the heaviest smokers can quit! Every morning Nita Rouse would
get up, have a smoke, have breakfast, have another smoke, then
20 minutes after that, go back outside and have another smoke
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Pleasing Improvement for Waikato DHB
Tuesday 29 May 2012, 11:36AMWaikato District Health Board continues to make steady progress towards meeting the government’s target for shorter waits in emergency departments
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More New Zealanders to go Blind - Expert
Tuesday 29 May 2012, 11:34AMA University of Auckland academic is calling for the Government to make preventing vision loss for ageing New Zealanders top of the national health agenda
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District Health Boards hoarding aged care provider funding
Tuesday 29 May 2012, 11:33AMThe Public Service Association and the New Zealand Home Health Association say it’s disappointing to see some District Health Boards refusing to pass on annual adjustment increases to home support providers, in light of the Human Rights Commission report into aged care
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World Smokefree Day
Tuesday 29 May 2012, 8:46AMExposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is a real health risk. In recognition of this, on World Smoke Free Day (31 May), Pfizer New Zealand will launch a more comprehensive Smokefree workplace policy aiming to improve the health of its employees, contractors and visitors by minimising the exposure to ETS in the workplace and outdoor surrounds
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Criticism of Defence Force Care Unfounded
Monday 28 May 2012, 2:44PMRecent criticism in the media about the Government’s lack of support for ‘shell-shocked’ soldiers is unfounded says the NZ Defence Force
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NZ women have world’s worst bowel cancer death rates
Monday 28 May 2012, 11:14AMNew Zealand women have the highest rate of bowel cancer in the world, and men have the third highest rates.[1] A National Screening Programme could reduce death rates from colorectal cancer by 15-30%
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Antioxidants may help maintain healthy vision
Monday 28 May 2012, 10:38AMDeclining eye health affects one in seven New Zealanders over the age of 50 and the incidence is increasing
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HRC report welcomed by Home Health Association
Monday 28 May 2012, 9:49AMThe New Zealand Home Health Association is welcoming the Human Rights Commission report Caring Counts. Chief Executive Julie Haggie says the report puts a spotlight on issues of fairness, leadership and transparency in the employment of aged care workers
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Budget positive but at a cost to primary healthcare
Monday 28 May 2012, 8:56AM
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Medicines an Integral Part of Palliative Care
Monday 28 May 2012, 8:55AMHealth professionals need to be vigilant to the symptom cascades that might arise in palliative care settings due to adverse effects of medicines, delegates at the NPS National Medicines Symposium have heard
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Nurses Organisation Backs Report on Aged Care Sector
Monday 28 May 2012, 8:43AMThe New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) commends the Human Rights Commission (HRC) for its excellent report into conditions in the Aged Care sector and is very pleased with the report’s recommendations
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Crisis of Aged Care Exposed in Commission Report
Monday 28 May 2012, 8:41AMThe Service and Food Workers Union Ngā Ringa Tota said today a report on the aged care sector conducted by the Human Rights Commission (HRC) contained no surprises and should prompt immediate action from Government, DHBs and aged care employers
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Funding for Pasifika Living with Arthritis Welcomed
Friday 25 May 2012, 4:18PMArthritis New Zealand welcomes the new $6 million Pacific Innovation Fund, aimed at improving the health of Pasifika people
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Better health through responsible self-medication
Friday 25 May 2012, 3:44PMWith tight fiscal discipline required to manage the precious health budget, New Zealanders must take more responsibility for their own health, says the New Zealand Self-Medication Industry (SMI), the industry body representing non-prescription consumer healthcare products, following yesterday’s Budget announcement
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Rheumatic fever programme expanded
Friday 25 May 2012, 3:18PMThe Ministry of Health’s Rheumatic Fever Prevention Programme is funding new health services, including school-based sore throat swabbing services, to help with the early detection of throat infections that can lead to this serious disease
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Health’s R&D boost a welcome injection
Friday 25 May 2012, 3:16PMThe $250 million of new operating funding and $76 million in capital funding over four years for science, innovation and research announced in yesterday’s Budget is a timely and welcome injection, according to the Medical Technology Association of New Zealand (MTANZ)
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A sick budget - New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Friday 25 May 2012, 3:14PMThe New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) analysis of the health budget released yesterday shows that the Government has not prioritised a healthy New Zealand
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CareNZ receive FebFast funds
Friday 25 May 2012, 11:46AMSuper 15 player and FebFast Ambassador Scott Waldrom handed over giant cheque to CareNZ on behalf of FebFast in Hamilton today
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“Smoke and mirrors” Budget paints a bleak outlook for NZ children
Friday 25 May 2012, 11:26AMBudget 2012 is a smoke and mirrors budget which paints a bleak outlook for children and the economy, a post-Budget breakfast forum in Wellington was told today
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Tobacco tax increase shows commitment to smokefree 2025
Thursday 24 May 2012, 6:22PMASH communications manager Michael Colhoun says that previous tobacco tax increases have been highly successful in reducing smoking rates by spurring quit attempts
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