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29/12/04 |
The situation with respect to Norovirus continues to improve
at Christchurch hospital.
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28/12/04 |
One Christchurch hospital ward is now
readmitting patients following an outbreak of Norovirus.
However, two wards remain infected.
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27/12/04 |
Members of the public are asked not to go to the Emergency
Department at Christchurch hospital if they have symptoms of
Norovirus – vomiting and diarrhoea.
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24/12/04 |
The situation with respect to the outbreak of Norovirus at
Christchurch hospital remains unchanged.
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23/12/04 |
Only necessary visits to Wards 27 and 28 at Christchurch
hospital are being requested over the next few days while staff
deal with an outbreak of the highly infectious Norovirus.
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23/12/04 |
NUPE’s claims that CDHB maintenance
and technical staff have been told to expect a proposal for
change in February involving up to 26 job cuts are both
extravagant and incorrect.
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20/12/04 |
Couples eligible to have a second cycle of In Vitro
Fertilisation (IVF) will be contacted by the Fertility Centre
(NZ Centre for Reproductive Medicine) in Christchurch to begin
services from 1 January 2005.
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17/12/04 |
Eight new research grants have been announced by the
Canterbury District Health Board. They are part of the CDHB’s
and School of Medicine’s joint annual research programme.
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16/12/04 |
Associate Professor Phil Brinded, Chair of Clinical
Directors, CDHB Mental Health Services, said in response to
claims of over crowding by the union NUPE, that ‘the acute
inpatient unit at Hillmorton Hospital is always very busy.’
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16/12/04 |
Four organisations have been selected to provide an
additional 100 aged care hospital beds in the Christchurch area,
following a request for proposal process conducted by the
Canterbury District Health Board.
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14/12/04 |
The Canterbury District Health Board’s Chief Executive Jean
O’Callaghan says she is very pleased the Health &
Disability Commissioner is taking no further action on a
complaint lodged by the family of the Nelson baby who died
earlier this year.
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06/12/04 |
The CDHB’s Women’s Health Division has announced a
proposal to change the Division’s Community Midwifery Service.
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02/12/04 |
A new acute stroke unit opened at Christchurch hospital this
afternoon, complementing the existing stroke rehabilitation unit
at Princess Margaret hospital.
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18/11/04 |
A review of maintenance and technical services at all CDHB
hospital sites which began several months ago, has now been
completed with a draft set of recommendations to improve the way
the services are provided.
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11/11/04 |
The global impact of AIDS will be highlighted in Christchurch
again this year when a fun day for young people ‘Sex in the
Park’ will be held on Saturday 27 November at Bromley Park.
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11/11/04 |
The Canterbury District Health Board in conjunction with the
Christchurch City Council is undertaking a project in Barrington
to identify people over the age of 55 who regularly walk in
their local area. The project is one of the Christchurch School
of Medicine’s summer projects.
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09/11/04 |
The General Manager of the CDHB’s Hospital & Specialist
Service Division Jock Muir today announced his Division’s new
team of general managers.
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29/10/04 |
As from this Sunday (31 October), all hospitals and other
sites owned by the Canterbury District Health Board will extend
the existing smokefree policy to become totally smokefree.
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27/09/04 |
With its theme of “When I
Grow Up,” the 2005 Cancer Research for Kids calendar has a
strong focus on the positive.
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15/09/04 |
Changes to the Clinical Records Department at Christchurch
hospital were announced today by the hospital’s General Manager (Acting) Mary
Gordon.
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08/09/04 |
The Chief Executive of the Canterbury
District Health Board Jean O’Callaghan has today released the
findings of the independent review of Christchurch
Hospital’s Emergency Department.
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07/09/04 |
Christchurch Hospital
will cancel three cardiology catheterisations tomorrow as part
of its planned measures to deal with current bed pressures.
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06/09/04 |
Christchurch hospital’s Emergency Department
has made another plea for non-urgent cases to see their GP first
before coming to hospital.
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30/08/04 |
A project on reducing over-sedation in
critically ill patients has won the Supreme Award in the second
annual Canterbury District Health Board Quality and Innovation
Awards.
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20/08/04 |
A new structure for the management of the
Hospital & Specialist Service Division (H&SS) of the CDHB has
been announced.
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09/08/04 |
‘On Friday, 6 August, the General Manager of
Christchurch Hospital Jim Magee advised me of his resignation
with effect from 20 August 2004.
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06/08/04 |
The Canterbury District Health Board has
successfully ended the financial year, to 30 June, with a
break-even situation excluding the impact of the new Holidays
Act.
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05/08/04 |
There has been an sudden increase in the
numbers of patients coming into Christchurch hospital’s
emergency department this week
recently.
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03/08/04 |
This week is World Breastfeeding Week (August
1 - 7) and the CDHB is adding its voice to the plea for new
mothers to breastfeed their babies.
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26/07/04 |
A project to implement an improved and more
efficient management system for patients’ clinical records has
begun at Christchurch hospital.
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23/07/04 |
Christchurch hospital General Manager Jim
Magee is hopeful that a positive solution will be found to
enable surgical registrar Sophie Bayliss to go to Afghanistan
and still retain her job at the hospital on her return.
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21/07/04 |
The amount of elective surgery at
Christchurch hospital has gone up this year, not down.
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09/07/04 |
The Minister of Health Hon Annette King has
approved the sale of CDHB’s surplus land at Hanmer.
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23/06/04 |
An innovative piece of technology with the
potential to save many millions of dollars has been developed by
a Canterbury University PHD student Andrew Rudge in
collaboration with Christchurch hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.
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17/06/04 |
The Hospital & Specialist Service (HSS) of
the Canterbury District Health Board, is looking at a proposal
that will realign its provision of public health services.
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08/06/04 |
With the exception of one child, all the children who were
admitted to Christchurch hospital at noon today following a chlorine incident at
Park View primary school, have now been discharged.
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08/06/04 |
Up to 21 children and three adults have been
admitted to the Emergency Department of Christchurch hospital at
noon today following a chlorine leak at Park View Primary
School.
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04/06/04 |
This morning, the Canterbury District Health
Board will officially launch the Healthy Hearts Under 5s
programme at the Te Amorangi Richmond pre-school, Woodham Road.
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31/05/04 |
The Canterbury District Health Board will
join the other DHBs in New Zealand later this year when its
facilities start to become smoke free zones.
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31/05/04 |
Following an extensive review of current services for alcohol
and other drugs (AOD) treatment throughout the South Island, a set of
initiatives has been announced that are aimed at improving local and regional
services.
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27/05/04 |
The budget announcement that more money will be put into
orthopaedic surgery is welcomed by the Canterbury District Health Board.
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19/05/04 |
The Canterbury District Health Board’s public
hospital surgical procedures – both elective and acute surgery -
have increased markedly this year compared with last year, says
the Board’s General Manager Hospital & Specialist Services Jock
Muir.
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13/05/04 |
This week, as part of International Nurses
Day, the CDHB launched its latest initiative to recognise the
contribution of nursing and midwifery staff throughout the
District Health Board.
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10/05/04 |
The Canterbury District Health Board will
relocate its Community Alcohol & Drug Service and the
Christchurch Methadone Programme to Hillmorton at the end of the
month.
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07/05/04 |
In commenting on a paper concerning the next
CDHB elections at today’s Board meeting, the Chair of the
Canterbury District Health Board Syd Bradley announced he will
not be seeking reappointment this year and will finish in his
role on 9 December 2004.
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07/05/04 |
Waiting lists for radiation therapy at
Christchurch hospital are coming down to the extent that the
oncology department is confident they will be reduced to zero by
the end of the year.
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07/05/04 |
The crucial role of nurses in the battle against poverty will
be the focus of this year’s International Nurses Day next Wednesday.
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05/05/04 |
Following a meeting with
the Minister of Health Hon Annette King and senior staff from
the Ministry of Health last night, the Canterbury District
Health Board has received support for the (already announced)
external review of the Christchurch hospital’s Emergency
Department.
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04/05/04 |
If you fit into the ‘older
person' age group, here are some tips about how to keep yourself
healthy this winter.
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01/05/04 |
The article by Junior Doctor Roddy Campbell
in Saturday’s paper is a disappointment for me and many of my
staff including, I believe, those in the Emergency Department
who work with great expertise to manage their patients.
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29/04/04 |
This week’s public criticism of the Canterbury District
Health Board’s budget planning for the current financial year has been
discounted by the Chief Executive Jean O’Callaghan as ill-informed and without
foundation.
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28/04/04 |
The Chief Executive of the Canterbury
District Health Board Jean O’Callaghan has today announced that
there will be an urgent, independent review of the Emergency
Department at Christchurch hospital.
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28/04/04 |
The services provided by the
Cardio-Respiratory Rehabilitation Unit at Burwood hospital are
to be relocated to Christchurch hospital.
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23/04/04 |
The Ministry of Health has recalled two
health products following reports in Christchurch that some
users have been adversely affected.
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07/04/04 |
The tender to supply food services to the
CDHB’s metropolitan Christchurch hospitals has been awarded to
Eurest New Zealand. Making the announcement, the General Manager
of Hospitals & Specialist Services Jock Muir said the contract
would be effective from 1 July.
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05/04/04 |
The Canterbury District Health Board has
today reached a settlement with the Medical Laboratory Workers
Union.
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02/04/04 |
The newest Primary Health Organisation in New
Zealand will be launched in Christchurch at noon today by the
Minister of Health Hon Annette King.
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19/03/04 |
The Canterbury District Health Board has
identified two further properties for sale as surplus land. They
are inner city sections in Gracefield Avenue and Armagh Street.
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16/03/04 |
Through a new Memorandum of Understanding,
the Canterbury District Health Board and the National Heart
Foundation of New Zealand have agreed to work together to
further promote initiatives that will improve health outcomes
for people in Canterbury.
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15/03/04 |
An increase in the number of cardiac
outpatients at Christchurch hospital has meant staff have gone
looking for bigger premises.
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12/03/04 |
The Canterbury District Health Board today
agreed unanimously to sell its surplus land at Hanmer. The
proposal will now be sent to the Minister of Health, Hon Annette
King for her consent.
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05/03/04 |
Ethnicity is a factor in determining the oral
health of children, according to an article published in the New
Zealand Dental Journal this week by dental public health
specialists Martin Lee and Peter Dennison.
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02/03/04 |
The Canterbury District Health Board is
supporting a recommendation from its Chief Medical Officer, Dr
Nigel Millar, to review the existing public health services at
Ashburton hospital.
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20/02/04 |
Next week, the Canterbury District Health
Board begins a new round of public consultation in relation to
the proposed sale of surplus land on the Hillmorton hospital
site.
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20/02/04 |
An international conference on upper limb
surgery for tetraplegics will be held in Christchurch next week.
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11/02/04 |
The move by the Minister of Health to make
avian influenza (bird flu) notifiable, is timely and prudent,
however there is no need for the public to panic since it does
not mean that its arrival in Canterbury is imminent, according
to the Canterbury Medical Officer of Health, Dr Mel Brieseman.
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09/02/04 |
If you get lucky on Friday the 13th, use a
condom to protect yourself and your partner from bad luck (in
this case Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs and HIV).
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09/02/04 |
Christchurch hospital has put in place a
process to recoup as much of its outstanding payments from
non-resident patients as practicable.
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19/01/04 |
On Sunday, 11 January, Gabriel was discharged
from the Intensive Care Unit at Christchurch Hospital.
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09/01/04 |
Brooke O’Leary is currently in Christchurch
Hospital being treated for burns received after contact with a
chemical in a Christchurch public toilet.
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09/01/04 |
On Wednesday morning, 7 January, Gabriel
"awoke" after having been semi-comatose since his
mountaineering accident on 31 December. This is a small miracle
and a major milestone in his recovery.
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06/01/04 |
Go to Ministry of Health website to view
their media release - New Zealanders are being reminded to follow a set
of basic rules to deal with soaring temperatures across the country.
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05/01/04 |
On Gabriel’s behalf, we would like to express our
sympathies to the families and friends of Paul Scaife, David Hiddleston, Dave
Gardner and Andrew Platt.
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02/01/04 |
The condition of Gabriel Amandor, aged 43 from California
remains unchanged. He is in a critical but stable condition at Christchurch
hospital.
Mark Dossor from Wellington is recovering well. He remains in hospital.
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01/01/04 |
Please note, this update is timed at 3.30pm. There will be no
further updates today – 1 January 2004.
Note also that Mark Dossor comes from Wellington, and not
Laurence as has been said in previous bulletins. Mr Dossor and his family have
specifically requested that media do not contact them at this time.
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01/01/04 |
Gabriel Amandor, a 43 year old Californian man remains in a
critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit at Christchurch
hospital this morning. |
