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      <title>NZ’s rejection of new WHO pandemic rules makes 'no real sense'</title>
      <link>https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2026/04/nzs-rejection-of-new-who-pandemic-rules-makes-no-real-sense</link>
      <description>WHO regulations are vitally important for the management of global public health emergencies, including pandemics, argues Sharon McLennan.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2026/04/nzs-rejection-of-new-who-pandemic-rules-makes-no-real-sense</guid>
      <dc:creator>Victoria University of Wellington</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2026-04-09T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Notice of NUHS Special Meeting</title>
      <link>https://www.newtownunionhealthservice.org.nz/notice-of-nuhs-special-meeting/</link>
      <description>A Special Meeting of NUHS members will be held on Thursday, 12 March 2026, at...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.newtownunionhealthservice.org.nz/notice-of-nuhs-special-meeting/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Newtown Union Health Service</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2026-02-19T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>Newtown Union Health Service, 14, Hall Avenue, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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      <title>Stark differences in COVID-19 vaccination rates between Māori and non-Māori, research finds</title>
      <link>https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2026/02/stark-differences-in-covid-19-vaccination-rates-between-maori-and-non-maori-research-finds</link>
      <description>Researchers link lower vaccination rates among Māori to existing inequities in healthcare access.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2026/02/stark-differences-in-covid-19-vaccination-rates-between-maori-and-non-maori-research-finds</guid>
      <dc:creator>Victoria University of Wellington</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2026-02-10T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Long COVID's long reach</title>
      <link>https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2025/12/long-covids-long-reach</link>
      <description>Post-infectious chronic conditions such as Long COVID and ME can leave some young people housebound, and in the most severe cases, bedbound, writes Mona Jeffreys.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2025/12/long-covids-long-reach</guid>
      <dc:creator>Victoria University of Wellington</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-12-07T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>2024 – 2025 Annual Impact Report Published</title>
      <link>https://www.teomanga.org.nz/2024-2025-annual-impact-report-published/</link>
      <description>The post 2024 – 2025 Annual Impact Report Published appeared first on Te Omanga Hospice.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.teomanga.org.nz/2024-2025-annual-impact-report-published/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Te Omanga Hospice</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-11-12T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>New Chief Executive of Te Omanga Hospice appointed</title>
      <link>https://www.teomanga.org.nz/new-chief-executive-of-te-omanga-hospice-appointed/</link>
      <description>The post New Chief Executive of Te Omanga Hospice appointed appeared first on Te Omanga Hospice.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Te Omanga Hospice</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-10-14T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>NUHS Annual General Meeting 2025</title>
      <link>https://www.newtownunionhealthservice.org.nz/nuhs-annual-general-meeting-2025/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Newtown Union Health Service</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-09-24T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>Newtown Union Health Service, 14, Hall Avenue, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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      <title>2025 Best Places to Work Awards</title>
      <link>https://www.teomanga.org.nz/2025-best-places-to-work-awards/</link>
      <description>The post 2025 Best Places to Work Awards appeared first on Te Omanga Hospice.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Te Omanga Hospice</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-08-20T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>100 Years of Dorne Cup racing</title>
      <link>https://hvh.org.nz/100-years-of-dorne-cup-racing/</link>
      <description>This weekend sees us running the Dorne Cup as it reaches the illustrious 100 year milestone, having first been run in 1925. A few years were missed due to a war and a global pandemic, but to mark the occasion…</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Hutt Valley Harriers</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-06-03T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Cancer during Covid inspires survivor to participate in Relay for Life</title>
      <link>https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2025/04/cancer-during-covid-inspires-survivor-to-participate-in-relay-for-life</link>
      <description>In early 2020, at the age of 14, Kyrith Reynolds was diagnosed with cancer. They had just begun high school, and the COVID-19 lockdowns were starting.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2025/04/cancer-during-covid-inspires-survivor-to-participate-in-relay-for-life</guid>
      <dc:creator>Victoria University of Wellington</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-04-02T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Covid</title>
      <link>https://wellyrunwalk.org.nz/covid/</link>
      <description>Attention all WRW members. Several members that attended last week on the 23 March 2025, now have COVID. To find out all about COVID symptoms, testing, isolation, vaccines, and mask… Read More »Covid</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://wellyrunwalk.org.nz/covid/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Wellington Runners &amp; Walkers (WRW)</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-03-27T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Backpack chemo pumps transforming cancer care</title>
      <link>https://www.ccdhb.org.nz/news-publications/news-and-media-releases/2025-03-21-backpack-chemo-pumps-transforming-cancer-care/</link>
      <description>Taking cancer inpatients out of hospital with mobile chemotherapy pumps is a win-win for everybody. They give those patients more freedom to get out and about and free up beds for others needing them.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.ccdhb.org.nz/news-publications/news-and-media-releases/2025-03-21-backpack-chemo-pumps-transforming-cancer-care/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Capital &amp; Coast District Health Board</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-03-21T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Backpack chemo pumps transforming cancer care</title>
      <link>http://www.huttvalleydhb.org.nz/media-and-latest-news/latest-news/2025-03-21-backpack-chemo-pumps-transforming-cancer-care/</link>
      <description>Taking cancer inpatients out of hospital with mobile chemotherapy pumps is a win-win for everybody. They give those patients more freedom to get out and about and free up beds for others needing them.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Hutt Valley District Health Board</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-03-21T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>New state-of-the-art High Dependency Unit at Wellington Regional Hospital now open</title>
      <link>https://www.ccdhb.org.nz/news-publications/news-and-media-releases/2025-03-20-new-state-of-the-art-high-dependency-unit-at-wellington-regional-hospital-now-open/</link>
      <description>The 12-bed unit, installed with the latest in critical care equipment, will be ready for patients by the end of March 2025.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Capital &amp; Coast District Health Board</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-03-20T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>New state-of-the-art High Dependency Unit at Wellington Regional Hospital now open</title>
      <link>http://www.huttvalleydhb.org.nz/media-and-latest-news/latest-news/2025-03-20-new-state-of-the-art-high-dependency-unit-at-wellington-regional-hospital-now-open/</link>
      <description>The 12-bed unit, installed with the latest in critical care equipment, will be ready for patients by the end of March 2025.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Hutt Valley District Health Board</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-03-20T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Peer support service to help people at ED with mental distress</title>
      <link>https://www.ccdhb.org.nz/news-publications/news-and-media-releases/2025-03-04-peer-support-service-to-help-people-at-ed-with-mental-distress/</link>
      <description>Anyone arriving at Wellington Hospital’s Emergency Department with mental distress will soon be able to get help from people who have experienced their own mental health issues.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Capital &amp; Coast District Health Board</dc:creator>
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      <title>Dance with Dementia</title>
      <link>https://www.vogelmorn.nz/vogelmorn-events/dance-with-dementia</link>
      <description>In 2020, the world began to experience Covid-19.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Vogelmorn Community Group</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-02-07T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>Vogelmorn Bowling Club, Mornington Road, Brooklyn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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      <title>NUHS Donate and Pay More</title>
      <link>https://www.newtownunionhealthservice.org.nz/nuhs-pay-more-or-donate/</link>
      <description>Did you know you can now pay more than our standard $15.00 consultation fee at...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Newtown Union Health Service</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-02-04T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>Newtown Union Health Service, 14, Hall Avenue, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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      <title>New Procedure Suite takes pressure off operating theatres</title>
      <link>http://www.huttvalleydhb.org.nz/media-and-latest-news/latest-news/2025-01-16-new-procedure-suite-takes-pressure-off-operating-theatres/</link>
      <description>The new suite at Hutt Hospital has been good news for the community, as it has enabled nearly three times as many procedures to be performed at the site since the suite opened in April 2023.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2025-01-16T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>New Procedure Suite takes pressure off operating theatres</title>
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      <description>The new suite at Hutt Hospital has been good news for the community, as it has enabled nearly three times as many procedures to be performed at the site since the suite opened in April 2023.</description>
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      <title>Banking on a career in health</title>
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      <description>After the pandemic, Jackson Smeed-Tauroa pursued a career change, and is proud to graduate this December with a Bachelor of Health.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Victoria University of Wellington</dc:creator>
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      <title>Perseverance pays off for Manaaki scholar</title>
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      <description>Wai Lwin Thaw from Myanmar is happy to make it to graduation after navigating extra English language tests, COVID-19 border closures, and a military coup.</description>
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      <dc:creator>Victoria University of Wellington</dc:creator>
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      <title>Central Region 7s on Saturday</title>
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      <description>The second annual post-covid revived Central Region 7s is being hosted by the Manawatu Rugby Football Union on Saturday. This is the tournament that was played in Levin for many years, prior to Covid 19 striking the nation and it going into abeyance for three years. There were green shoots in its revival last year...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 19:15:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Wellington Club Weekly</dc:creator>
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      <title>NZNO nurses’ strike: Tuesday 3 December, 11am-7pm </title>
      <link>http://www.huttvalleydhb.org.nz/media-and-latest-news/latest-news/2024-11-20-nzno-nurses-strike-tuesday-3-december-11am-7pm/</link>
      <description>Nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants (HCAs) who belong to the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) union are planning to strike on Tuesday 3 December, from 11am to 7pm.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>NZNO nurses’ strike: Tuesday 3 December, 11am-7pm </title>
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      <description>Nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants (HCAs) who belong to the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) union are planning to strike on Tuesday 3 December, from 11am to 7pm.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Capital &amp; Coast District Health Board</dc:creator>
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      <title>NZNO nurses’ strike action: December 2024</title>
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      <description>The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) union has issued further strike notices for its nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants (HCAs) employed by Health NZ.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Hīkoi on Tues 19 Nov – allow extra time to get to hospital appointments</title>
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      <description>There's been no change to scheduled appointments, but expect the hīkoi to cause congestion on the roads.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Capital &amp; Coast District Health Board</dc:creator>
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      <title>Hīkoi on Tues 19 Nov – allow extra time to get to hospital appointments</title>
      <link>http://www.huttvalleydhb.org.nz/media-and-latest-news/latest-news/2024-11-15-hikoi-on-tues-19-nov-allow-extra-time-to-get-to-hospital-appointments/</link>
      <description>There's been no change to scheduled appointments, but expect the hīkoi to cause congestion on the roads.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>2023-2024 Annual Impact Report Published</title>
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      <description>The post 2023-2024 Annual Impact Report Published appeared first on Te Omanga Hospice.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:13:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Te Omanga Hospice</dc:creator>
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      <title>New x-ray machines first for Asia-Pacific</title>
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      <description>We’re delighted to share the news on World Radiology Day, 8 November, that two new x-ray machines – the first of their kind in Asia-Pacific – were recently installed at Wellington and Kenepuru Hospitals.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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