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This White Ribbon Day, Whanganui District Health Board (WDHB) is asking the public to “Challenge the Unspoken Rules” that boys and young men inherit from society. |
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Doctor Jan Bone, who led the emergency department during the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, will give a free public lecture on Thursday 21 November. |
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Whanganui District Health Board is partnering with ACC to help people caring for family at home regarding pressure injuries. |
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“A positive step moving forward”; “A remarkable opportunity to be heard”; “I felt like people were listening to us” - these were some of the comments after Whanganui’s first Conversation Café. |
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Health Minister David Clark is encouraging Whanganui residents to take up the opportunity for free bowel screening, which can detect cancer early when it’s easier to treat. |
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Whanganui District Health Board medical imaging technologists (MITs) will strike for 24 hours beginning 7am on Wednesday 30 October and 7am on Friday 1 November 2019 with a full withdrawal of services. |
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Improving health outcomes for Māori will be a key focus of the national bowel screening programme which launched in Whanganui on Tuesday 22 October. |
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Whanganui mayor Hamish McDouall remembers his friend from university days in Otago as being “fit and a talented footballer who loved music”.
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A collaborative framework has been put in place by various agencies dealing with the closure of State Highway 4. |
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The benefits of being in good physical shape before having surgery will be the focal point of a public display and inter-action at Whanganui Hospital on October 16. |
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A mystery $5000 donation has delighted staff at Whanganui Hospital. |
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Whanganui District Health Board medical imaging technologists (radiographers) will strike for 24 hours beginning 7am on Wednesday 2 October 2019 and ending 7am on Thursday 3 October 2019. |
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We are reviewing how we run our laboratory – and want your feedback. |
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More than 70 years after learning her first words in English, Ailsa Stewart is learning te reo Māori. |
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The outstanding efforts of those who work in Whanganui’s health and disability sector were recognised in some style at an awards night on Friday.[Sept 6] |
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The month of September is a reminder to pregnant women, their whānau and support network that drinking while hapu contributes to life-long problems for tamariki. Drinking while pregnant also increases the chance of premature birth, or losing your baby through miscarriage or stillbirth. |
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A woman’s best protection against developing cervical cancer is to have regular cervical screening. |
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A group of women living at Jane Winstone Retirement Village have used their ‘knit and natter’ sessions to knit dolls for Whanganui Hospital’s children’s ward.
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Whanganui Hospital is running a competition to select photographs to brighten up its main corridor. |
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Taihape Childcare Centre (TCC) has gone water only - a move Whanganui District Health Board public health nurse Narisa Sargison says is recognition of the staff and children’s commitment to ridding their centre of sugary drinks. |
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B4 school checks are a vital health and developmental assessment available to all Kiwi four-year-olds. |
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Māori Television cameras were at Marton’s Māori health provider Te Kotuku Hauora where staff had organised for Whanganui District Health Board bowel screening project manager Ben McMenamin to give a… |
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A growing commitment to rural health is reflected in Whanganui District Health Board’s decision to take its August board meeting to Taihape. |
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With a lineage stretching back 175 years, Whanganui Hospital was a must to be part of Whanganui’s upcoming Heritage Month, and it will host an event on Saturday, August 10. |
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From Monday July 8 there will be some changes in the Emergency Department reception area at Whanganui Hospital. |
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Health minister David Clark has given a big tick to a number of health initiatives in Whanganui. |
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Whanganui District Health Board's laboratory testing is no longer sex-specific, removing barriers to access for the transgender community. |
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Getting fit for surgery has been a labour of love for David Lamese. |
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Save money, have more energy and feel healthier - just a few of the reasons to try Dry July this month. |
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An emphasis on a pro-active approach to complaints by Whanganui District Health Board has resulted in its lowest ever rate of complaints made to the Health & Disability Commissioner. |
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