Hospital related newsitems

• • Prince William visits Wellington Hospital

    • 20 Jan 2010
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
    • An estimated two thousand people turned out on Tuesday 19 January to greet Prince William on his first official visit to Wellington Hospital. What was scheduled to be an hour long stopover turned into a ninety minute stay, as the Prince extended generous quantities of his time to speak with sick children in Wards 18 and 19.
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• • Joint media release: DHBs plan to establish Joint Chair of Emergency Medicine for Wellington Region

    • 10 Dec 2009
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
    • Hutt Valley and Capital & Coast DHBs have agreed to establish a Chair of Emergency Medicine for the Wellington region, covering Wellington and Hutt hospitals. Wellington and Hutt hospitals’ emergency departments are among the busiest in the country, which combined see almost 90,000 patients each year – 50,000 at Wellington and 40,000 at Hutt.
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• • Response to the release of the Quarter 1 results for the new Health Targets

    • 23 Nov 2009
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
    • C&C DHB welcomes the release of the new national health targets for DHBs for the first quarter of this financial year.
  
  

• • Cancer diaries give patients power and knowledge

    • 13 Nov 2009
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
    • It started as an idea inspired by a conference on "lean thinking", and ended up as a simple but effective document which will help cancer patients feel more in control of their treatment.
  
  

• • Cutting of ribbon opens MAPU

    • 5 Nov 2009
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
  
  

• • C&C DHB’s new scanner is first of its kind in Southern Hemisphere

    • 14 Oct 2009
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
    • A brand new gamma camera which is now installed in Wellington Hospital means patients have access to technology that is restricted to just a few sites in the world. The new SPECT-CT gamma camera for nuclear medicine has just started being used and provides a much improved scan image for medical staff when diagnosing patients.
  
  

• • New radiation treatment to combat prostate cancer now introduced at Wellington Hospital

    • 10 Sep 2009
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
    • Clinicians at Wellington Hospital have begun using a specialised form of radiation therapy to treat patients who have prostate cancer.
  
  

• • Pretty face needs more work

    • 9 Sep 2009
    • Capital Times
    • It’s been six months since the $285 million revamp of Wellington Hospital. Have the new facilities stemmed the high staff turnover and improved working conditions?
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• • Tikanga Maori Guidelines released today (12/08/09)

    • 12 Aug 2009
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
  
  

• • Clinical Director appointed

    • 4 Aug 2009
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
    • Last month Dr Colin Feek was appointed Clinical Director for Kenepuru, Kapiti and Community Health. The appointment is part of a longstanding relationship he has had with Capital & Coast DHB that began when he emigrated from the UK in 1987 to become a specialist endocrinologist and physician at Wellington Hospital.
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    • health
  
  

• • A Pandemic Pictorial

    • 2 Jul 2009
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
    • Winter’s always a busy period at any hospital, and June 2009 was especially busy with the arrival of the “Swine Flu” pandemic adding further stresses and strains. The arrival of “Novel A H1N1” (to give the swine flu its proper name) required all hospital staff to rapidly adapt to the changing environment. Otago University School of Medicine photographer Lousie Goossens spent some time looking at the various roles C&C DHB staff played during the early stages of the swine flu pandemic.
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• • Influenza latest: Wellington moves to mangement phase (19/06/09)

    • 19 Jun 2009
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
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• • Nicotine replacement therapy doubles your chances of quitting,smokers advised (21/05/09)

    • 21 May 2009
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
    • iChild RT @wellynews Nicotine replacement therapy doubles your chances of quitting,smokers advised (21/05/09) http://tinyurl.com/pzjj43
  
  

• • Update on Swine Flu

    • 6 May 2009
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
    • Our current local plan for Swine Flu response can be downloaded here.
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    • swine flu
  
  

• • Tikanga Guidelines - Partnership Breed Results

    • 5 May 2009
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
  
  

• • Wellington Hospital gets OK to train super-specialists in treating high-risk pregnancies

    • 4 May 2009
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
    • Wellington Hospital has become only the second hospital in New Zealand which is accredited to train specialist consultants in the management of high-risk pregnancies. The training – called Maternal and Fetal Medicine – will begin next year. Senior doctors who have already qualified as Obstetricians/Gynaecologists can then take a further three year course in this sub-specialty which focuses on high risk pregnancies.
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• • Creekfest 2009 (29/04/09)

    • 29 Apr 2009
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
  
  

• • Tokelau Mission

    • 28 Apr 2009
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
    • Wellington Hospital nurse consultant Bronwen Markham is back on dry land after agreeing to be part of a Ministry of Health response to a suspected influenza outbreak threatened to overwhelm health services on the isolated atolls.
  
  

• • Settlement the size of Mt Cook wiped out annually by smoking deaths

    • 6 Apr 2009
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
    • Dr Julian Crane of Capital & Coast District Health Board says the equivalent of a settlement the size of Mt Cook is wiped out every year because of smoking. He was commenting on Face the Facts, a new series of messages to inform and educate the public about the health risks associated with smoking. Face the Facts is part of the Ministry of Health's ongoing tobacco control programme.
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• • ABC smoking cessation approach (02/04/09)

    • 2 Apr 2009
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
  
  

• • Wellington Celebrates new $285 Million Regional Hospital

    • 11 Mar 2009
    • Wellington’s new Regional Hospital officially opened last week, with hundreds attending an historic Open Day.New services at the hospital include complex specialist and acute services, procedures and treatments such as the Intensive Care Unit, cardiac surgery, cancer care, cardiology procedures, neurosurgery and renal care.
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• • Stars visit Dialysis Clinic (16/02/09)

    • 16 Feb 2009
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
  
  

• • Third Linac at Wellington Hospital boosts cancer treatment capacity for Central Region (16/01/09)

    • 16 Jan 2009
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
  
  

• • Phoenix spreading Christmas cheer (18/12/08)

    • 18 Dec 2008
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
    • The Children’s wards got a special visit today from Wellington’s A-League soccer team The Phoenix. It was the team’s first Christmas visit to the Children’s wards (18 and 19). Owner Terry Serepisos said because the players had such a huge following amongst children the team wanted to pay a special visit. “This is a way to give something back to the kids because the Phoenix is all about getting kids involved.”
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• • Unprecedented run of Renal Transplants underscores vital importance of organ donors (12/12/08)

    • 12 Dec 2008
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
  
  

• • Blessing of new Women's and Neonatal areas (11/12/08)

    • 11 Dec 2008
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
    • Our kaumatua continued their programme of blessings for the new Wellington Regional Hospital this week - with blessing for the new Women's inpatient and outpatient areas and the new NICU.
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• • Photo Essay: Pounamu will be centre-piece in new Wellington Regional Hospital (11/12/08)

    • 11 Dec 2008
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
    • A large piece of Pounamu which has been gifted to Wellington Hospital by local Maori will form a central focus in the entryway to the new Wellington Regional Hospital building.
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    • sculpture
  
  

• • Capital & Coast DHB using health care as a prescription to help cut crime (08/12/08)

    • 8 Dec 2008
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
  
  

• • Departments begin move into new WRH

    • 11 Nov 2008
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board
    • The first two clinical support departments have now made the shift into the new Wellington Regional Hospital building. Ribbon cutting of new radiology departmentRadiology (which includes X-Rays, MRIs and other diagnostic imaging) is up and running in the WRH, and saw its first patients there on 3 November. Sterile Services - who sterilise equipment used in operating theatres and other clinical settings - moved into the new building just a few days later.
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• • Bionic Baby will be a real life-saver (23/10/08)

    • 23 Oct 2008
    • Capital & Coast District Health Board