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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>ASMS senior doctors’ strike: Thursday 1 May, 24-hours</title>
      <link>https://www.ccdhb.org.nz/news-publications/news-and-media-releases/2025-04-28-asms-senior-doctors-strike-thursday-1-may-24-hours/</link>
      <description>Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora senior doctors who are Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) union members are planning a nationwide strike for 24 hours on Thursday 1 May.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.ccdhb.org.nz/news-publications/news-and-media-releases/2025-04-28-asms-senior-doctors-strike-thursday-1-may-24-hours/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Capital &amp; Coast District Health Board</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-04-28T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>ASMS senior doctors’ strike: Thursday 1 May, 24-hours</title>
      <link>http://www.huttvalleydhb.org.nz/media-and-latest-news/latest-news/2025-04-28-asms-senior-doctors-strike-thursday-1-may-24-hours/</link>
      <description>Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora senior doctors who are Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) union members are planning a nationwide strike for 24 hours on Thursday 1 May.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.huttvalleydhb.org.nz/media-and-latest-news/latest-news/2025-04-28-asms-senior-doctors-strike-thursday-1-may-24-hours/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Hutt Valley District Health Board</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-04-28T00:00:00Z</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>Privacy Breach Public Notice</title>
      <link>https://www.ccdhb.org.nz/news-publications/news-and-media-releases/2025-03-27-privacy-breach-public-notice/</link>
      <description>In October 2024, Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Central region was subject to an IT security incident that resulted in a malicious actor gaining unauthorised access to some local organisational information.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Capital &amp; Coast District Health Board</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-03-27T00:00:00Z</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>
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      <dc:creator>Wellington Runners &amp; Walkers (WRW)</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-03-27T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Privacy Breach Public Notice</title>
      <link>http://www.huttvalleydhb.org.nz/media-and-latest-news/latest-news/2025-03-27-privacy-breach-public-notice/</link>
      <description>In October 2024, Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Central region was subject to an IT security incident that resulted in a malicious actor gaining unauthorised access to some local organisational information.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Hutt Valley District Health Board</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>
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      <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>http://www.huttvalleydhb.org.nz/media-and-latest-news/latest-news/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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