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- Our Allied Professional visit Tawa College
  - 23 Jun 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - Our Allied Professionals team recently visited Tawa College to promote Allied Professions to students and their whānau.
- Ongoing pressure results in planned care reduction – statement from 2DHB Chief Medical Officer John
  - 20 Jun 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - Ongoing pressure on the region’s hospital services have resulted in the significant reduction of non-deferrable planned care across Hutt Valley and Capital & Coast DHBs.
- Update to technical guidance related to the Heretaunga building
  - 17 Jun 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - On Wednesday 22 June the Hutt Valley and Capital & Coast DHB Boards will consider the final draft detailed seismic assessment of the Heretaunga building, which updates the previous engineering advice on how the building would perform in a significant earthquake.
- Dr John Tait’s almost unbelievable honour!
  - 16 Jun 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - On Queen’s Birthday, Hutt Valley and Capital & Coast District Health Board’s (DHB) Chief Medical Officer John Tait was appointed as an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit; however, he thought the prestigious honour was all a hoax at first!
- DHB staff celebrity thank you video
  - 13 Jun 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - Tēnā koutou katoa! Take a look at what these well-known Wellingtonians had to say about our staff!
- Local Emergency Departments still seeing higher patient numbers
  - 8 Jun 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - The Hutt Hospital ED continues to experience higher volumes of patients and again asks that people please only present if they require urgent or emergency care.
- Release of technical guidance related to the Heretaunga building
  - 7 Jun 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - Following the announcement that a seismic assessment of the Heretaunga building at Hutt Hospital shows that it is earthquake-prone under the law, Hutt Valley DHB has released a range of supporting documents via its website.
- Celebrating and embracing Samoan language and culture! Chee-hoo!
  - 3 Jun 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - Talofa Lava everyone! We across the Hutt Valley and Capital & Coast DHBs have been celebrating Samoan Language Week and one staff member has shared with us the importance of celebrating and embracing Samoan language and culture.
- ‘Every whānau should have a nurse’
  - 1 Jun 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - The next line of future Māori nurses and midwives got a little taste of what is to come when high school students attended an annual full-day exposure at Wellington Regional Hospital recently.
- Hutt and Wellington Emergency Departments experiencing higher patient numbers
  - 31 May 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - The ED at Hutt Hospital is currently experiencing higher volumes of patients and people are asked to please only present if they require urgent or emergency care.
- BreastScreen Central undertakes review into late mammography appointments
  - 24 May 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - Hutt Valley and Capital & Coast DHBs have become aware that a number of people have waited longer than the usual 60 working days from enrolment in the Breast Screen Central (BSC) service to being offered a mammogram appointment.
- Update on Capital & Coast DHB Wellington ED facility
  - 20 May 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - Capital & Coast DHB says people can remain confident they will continue to receive safe and high quality emergency care when they need it, as plans are made to relocate Te Pae Tiaki Wellington ED to a larger space within the Wellington Regional Hospital building.
- Hutt Valley DHB plans future transition of services from Heretaunga Block
  - 17 May 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - Hutt Valley DHB is entering into a phase of planning and partner collaboration that will determine how services are best relocated from the Heretaunga Block at Hutt Hospital while maintaining continuity of care and support for the Hutt Valley community.
- PSA industrial action – withdrawal of labour
  - 13 May 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - Members of the PSA union who are party to the Allied, Public Health and Technical MECA will undertake a complete withdrawal of labour for 24 hours next week – from 11.59pm on Sunday 15 May to 11.59pm on Monday 16 May.
- PSA industrial action
  - 6 May 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - From Monday 9 May, members of the PSA union will undertake industrial action across the country’s DHBs, including Hutt Valley and Capital & Coast DHBs.
- DHBs congratulate local providers’ leadership in new locality model
  - 21 Apr 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - Hutt Valley and Capital & Coast DHBs today welcomed the news that Ngāti Toa Rangatira and Tū Ora Compass Health PHO have been announced as key partners in the new locality approach for how healthcare will be delivered in Porirua.
- Hutt nurses and midwives get pampered
  - 14 Apr 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - Hutt nurses and midwives receive 200 cosmetic care packs in recognition of their hard mahi
- Hutt Maternity champion midwife retires
  - 8 Apr 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - Hutt Maternity champion midwife retires
- Hospital improvements continue to progress across the region
  - 5 Apr 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - Infrastructure enhancement and pandemic resilience continues to progress at pace across the region’s hospitals, with the construction of a new stand-by inpatient area for Te Pae Tiaki Wellington Emergency Department patients at Wellington Regional Hospital.
- Agility at the heart of COVID-19 response
  - 5 Apr 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - The locally-led nature of the 2DHB COVID-19 Care in the Community model is proving key to responding to the constantly changing nature of the Omicron outbreak in our communities.
- Overcoming barriers to communication
  - 31 Mar 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - Nurse Educator Zoe Perkins, who is based in Wellington Regional Hospital’s Ward 6 North - Orthopaedic and Urology, recently reached out to the Disability Strategy team for guidance on caring for a Deaf consumer, Sean.
- Marking a milestone: new Wellington children’s hospital one step closer
  - 31 Mar 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - Capital & Coast DHB (CCDHB) has entered a new phase of the journey to a new children’s hospital for the region, with practical completion of its new building now achieved.
- Kenepuru Community Hospital open to visits by kaitiaki and partners in care only
  - 25 Mar 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - Kenepuru Community Hospital is now open to visits by kaitiaki and partners in care only. The hospital remains temporarily closed to general inpatient visitors. This will be reassessed again early next week.
- Changes to requirements to scan
  - 25 Mar 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - From 11:59pm 25 March, scanning when entering our hospitals will no longer be compulsory.
- Upper Hutt After Hours Group - Changes to After Hours Service
  - 24 Mar 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - From 1 April 2022 Upper Hutt After Hours Group will cease to provide After Hours Services to its enrolled patients.
- Kenepuru Community Hospital to remain temporarily closed to visitors
  - 18 Mar 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - Kenepuru Community Hospital remains temporarily closed to all visitors due to the need for additional surveillance testing after a small number of additional patients tested positive for COVID-19.
- Kenepuru Community Hospital temporarily closed to visitors
  - 16 Mar 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - Kenepuru Community Hospital is temporarily closed to all visitors as a precaution while surveillance testing for COVID-19 is carried out.
- Hospital upgrades to enhance care and COVID-19 response
  - 10 Mar 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - Work to boost hospital resilience underway in both the Hutt Valley and Wellington will help ensure the continuation of safe care and support for both COVID-19 and non-COVID patients.
- People asked to be kind while awaiting rapid antigen tests
  - 4 Mar 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - Hutt Valley and Capital & Coast DHBs ask people to be patient and kind – both to one another and to staff – at the region’s community testing centres (CTCs) following widespread abusive, aggressive, and violent behaviour and treatment.
- Dr Junior Ulu: What is Care in the Community?
  - 4 Mar 2022
  - Hutt Valley District Health Board
  - The COVID-19 Care in the Community Framework was set up by the Ministry of Heath, which ensures that people with COVID-19 receive the support they need.

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