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Find out about the latest MidCentral DHB events.
MidCentral District Health Board media releases and news updates are listed below in date order. You can follow our news and events updates:
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MidCentral District Health Board Communications Unit
Board Office
PO Box 2056
Palmerston North
Phone: +64 6 350 8945 - Fax: +64 6 355 0480
Email: communications@midcentraldhb.govt.nz
Public news items by date order:
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10/03/2010
The annual Seasonal Influenza Immunisation Programme for 2010 began this week around the country, in
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08/03/2010
The MidCentral District Health Board is holding an open forum in Dannevirke on Tuesday 16 March 2010
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05/03/2010
Ten new disability car parks were opened at Palmerston North Hospital yesterday.
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03/03/2010
The first two of a scheduled five new mobile dental clinics MidCentral District Health board is buyi
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26/02/2010
MidCentral District Health Board made improvements in five out of the six national health targets in
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18/02/2010
Dudding Lake, near Marton is again safe to swim in.
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09/02/2010
The MidCentral District Health Board is holding an open forum in Palmerston North on Tuesday (16 Feb
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02/02/2010
MidCentral District Health Board, along with the other 20 DHBs, is about to start the 2010 Influenza
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02/02/2010
Two prostate patients from MidCentral District Health Board region last week benefitted from a new r
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01/02/2010
Site works for the provision of nine new disability car parks at Palmerston North Hospital, will mea
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29/01/2010
Tests carried out by Horizons Regional Council have shown elevated concentrations of cyanobacterial
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22/01/2010
Sometimes we hear of things that people do which are just amazing. Imagine cycling the length of New
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21/01/2010
Two out of 38 retailers sold two under 18-year-olds tobacco products in a Palmerston North survey of
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08/01/2010
Tummy bugs or “gastro” (gastroenteritis) can happen any time of the year but getting sic
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23/12/2009
A recent Red Health Risk alert at the Foxton River Loop is a reminder that some recreational wat
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22/12/2009
A quality audit of the Rose A Lea Rest Home in Palmerston North has upheld complaints about the stan
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21/12/2009
Roast lamb or turkey followed by plum pudding served with brandy sauce, or jelly and ice cream will
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15/12/2009
Yesterday Horowhenua Health Centre staff received a special commendation for their entry Austral
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15/12/2009
MidCentral Health is appealing to people with hospital loan equipment they have finished using, to r
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14/12/2009
MidCentral District Health Board (MDHB) celebrated winning the New Zealand Workplace of the Year in
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14/12/2009
Carol singing at Palmerston North Hospital will be held this Thursday 17 December, and at Horowhenua
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10/12/2009
Hokowhitu Keas donated 30 decorated boxes of Christmas goodies to children in our community who are
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02/12/2009
A Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) nurse-led urology clinic will begin at Dannevirke Community Hospit
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30/11/2009
MidCentral Health has released summary details of eight sentinel events as part of a national releas
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24/11/2009
The public is invited to join with MidCentral District Health Board staff in spreading some Christma
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24/11/2009
The public is invited to join with MidCentral District Health Board staff in spreading some Christma
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19/11/2009
MidCentral District Health Board (MDHB) staff have won New Zealand Workplace of the Year in the Aust
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17/11/2009
MidCentral District Health Board has instigated an immediate quality audit of the Rose A Lea Res
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11/11/2009
A new silent patient call bell system being trialled in a ward at Palmerston North Hospital will all
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10/11/2009
The Nursing Review announced by MidCentral Health last week is about how MidCentral Health staffs it
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06/11/2009
As part of MidCentral Health (MCH) service reviews, a nurse staffing review has been completed for t
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05/11/2009
LEAD-BASED PAINT INFORMATION
With the arrival of summer, house renovations are often on the agend
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03/11/2009
Nine new car parks will be available for Disability Card holders parking at Palmerston North Hospita
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02/11/2009
A computerised 'traffic light' waiting system developed by urologists Dr Homi Zargar and Mr Quentin
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23/10/2009
This year’s International Stroke day coincided with the district wide launch of a new software
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22/10/2009
Night-time bed wetting is a common problem that causes significant grief to many children, young peo
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19/10/2009
Today is the day set aside for world focus on musculoskeletal pain – the pain people feel R
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16/10/2009
Working in the challenging world of intellectual disabilities has, is and always will be, a lifelong
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15/10/2009
MidCentral District Health Board has successfully secured funding of $198,500 for energy management
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15/10/2009
MidCentral Health cardiologist Laura Davidson has completed some large cycle events in her time, but
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14/10/2009
A series of six community forums regarding the introduction of mobile dental clinics for children an
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09/10/2009
Please attribute comments to Murray Georgel, Chief Executive Officer, MidCentral District Health Boa
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07/10/2009
The MidCentral District Health Board is holding an open forum in Eketahuna on Tuesday 20 October 200
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02/10/2009
Palmerston North Hospital is in a state of readiness as it prepares to receive a number of victims a
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02/10/2009
Community forums regarding the introduction of mobile dental clinics for children and adolescents wi
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02/10/2009
Community forums regarding the introduction of mobile dental clinics for children and adolescents wi
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02/10/2009
Community forums regarding the introduction of mobile dental clinics for children and adolescents wi
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02/10/2009
Palmerston North Hospital has been stood down and, at this stage, is no longer receiving patients an
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29/09/2009
This morning MidCentral Health (MCH) Health Promotion Advisor Nigel Fitzpatrick joined local health
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28/09/2009
Although 75 percent of breast cancers are found in women over 50 years of age, breast cancer can
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25/09/2009
MidCentral Health (MCH) Health Promotion Advisor Nigel Fitzpatrick will next week lead a group of he
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21/09/2009
The Mobile Surgical Bus will recommence visits to Levin and Dannevirke on 28 October and 18 December
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20/09/2009
Tararua Primary Health Organisation is one of two PHOs in the MidCentral District Health Board regio
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20/09/2009
Otaki Primary Health Organisation is one of two PHOs in the MidCentral District Health Board region
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18/09/2009
Discussions on the introduction of mobile dental clinics for children, and some adolescents where pr
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18/09/2009
MidCentral Health General Manager Lareen Cooper today announced her resignation as she moves to expl
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12/09/2009
A recent rise in meningococcal cases has prompted a reminder from MidCentral Health to be vigilant.
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11/09/2009
Ormond Stock, MidCentral District Health Board member since 2007, has resigned today. Mr Stock was a
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11/09/2009
Thanks to a sizeable bequest Diabetes Manawatu yesterday donated a state-of-the-art glucose monitori
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10/09/2009
Tomorrow (11 September) will see the official opening of the Acute Stroke Unit at Palmerston North H
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02/09/2009
Health workers in the MidCentral District Health Board region are encouraging all parents to get the
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01/09/2009
A review of a MidCentral Health decision to move three outpatient clinics from Dannevirke, to Palmer
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13/08/2009
School girls in Horowhenua, Otaki and Foxton will receive the final dose of the Gardasil vaccine nex
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12/08/2009
MidCentral District Health Board is calling for entries to its annual Health Awards to be held in Pa
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10/08/2009
MidCentral District Health Board is urging parents to make sure their children are fully immunised w
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07/08/2009
The MidCentral District Health Board is holding an open forum in Otaki on Tuesday 18 August 2009 fro
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04/08/2009
A Palmerston North Hospital campus on-site shuttle service that picks up and returns clinic pati
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04/08/2009
The importance of continued exclusive breastfeeding of babies, especially in an emergency, is be
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24/07/2009
The first patients have this week begun using MidCentral Health’s new eight-bed Women’s
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24/07/2009
Palmerston North Hospital has been managing a gastroenteritis outbreak since the beginning of June t
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21/07/2009
Ward 29 at Palmerston North Hospital, which has been closed due to gastroenteritis thought to be
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20/07/2009
An InZone bus that travels around high schools promoting a variety of careers will visit seven colle
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16/07/2009
One surgical ward (Ward 29) at Palmerston North Hospital is closed to new patients and visitors, to
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15/07/2009
Talking with people about their tummy bugs may be enough to put you off your lunch. However data gat
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10/07/2009
Twenty seven carparks at the front of Palmerston North Hospital have been dedicated to Horowhenua an
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09/07/2009
The Manawatu Horowhenua and Tararua Diabetes Trust are giving people with diabetes the skills to man
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06/07/2009
The gastroenteritis outbreak at Palmerston North Hospital appears to be coming under control. MidCen
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02/07/2009
An amnesty is being held by MidCentral Health for the return of loan hospital equipment that patient
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30/06/2009
“Health Promoting Schools are schools which display, in everything they say or do, support and
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29/06/2009
The measures in place to manage the norovirus outbreak at Palmerston North Hospital are to continue
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26/06/2009
MidCentral District Health Board region now has its first four confirmed cases of Novel Influenza A
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23/06/2009
Staff at Palmerston North Hospital are focused this week on preventing the further spread or any new
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22/06/2009
Staff at Palmerston North Hospital are focused this week on preventing the further spread or any new
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19/06/2009
The closure of a third ward due to gastroenteritis has put more pressure on patient services at Palm
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19/06/2009
Woodville School has become the twelfth full Health Promoting School to achieve that status in the M
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15/06/2009
Up to the minute approaches to targeted cancer treatment will be the focus of a gathering of top med
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15/06/2009
MidCentral Health is sending a strong message to visitors in a poster spelling out when not to visit
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12/06/2009
Two medical wards at Palmerston North Hospital are closed to new patients, and visitors are asked to
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12/06/2009
A number of Horowhenua nurses were among those recognised for their achievements at the MidCentral D
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11/06/2009
Visitors are asked to assist with minimising the spread of a new outbreak of gastroenteritis, pr
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05/06/2009
From Monday (8 June 2009) all pregnant women in the MidCentral DHB region will be routinely offered
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26/05/2009
MidCentral DHB and the Manawatu Primary Health Organisation are urging those yet to take advantage o
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21/05/2009
Youth Week, from 23-31 May, is about creating a society that values young people and affirms their d
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19/05/2009
MidCentral and Whanganui DHBs are pleased to jointly announce the appointment of Dr Digby Ngan Kee a
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18/05/2009
MidCentral District Health Board is reassuring Levin’s Queen Street Pharmacy customers that th
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15/05/2009
More than 100 secondary school students from around the MidCentral District Health Board region will
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04/05/2009
MidCentral DHB region has no suspected cases, and one individual in quarantine after exposure to a p
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30/04/2009
MidCentral District Health Board has received funding from the Ministry of Health to pilot a new app
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30/04/2009
MidCentral District Health Board has activated its Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), at the request
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29/04/2009
MidCentral Public Health authorities are taking the arrival in New Zealand of a new strain of influe
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28/04/2009
MidCentral District Health Board is currently monitoring the national and international information
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24/04/2009
MidCentral Health has returned to business as usual following the decline of incidence of gastroente
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23/04/2009
Two of eight applications have been successful in this year’s round of grants from the Tararua
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20/04/2009
The respiratory laboratory at Palmerston North Hospital is seeking a number of people to volunteer f
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14/04/2009
The public is asked to restrict visiting to avoid further gastroenteritis infection being brought in
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03/04/2009
The green light has been given by Health Minister Tony Ryall for a co-operative agreement between Mi
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03/04/2009
Staff at Palmerston North Hospital are working to prevent the further spread of the viral gastroente
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26/03/2009
Ward 26 at Palmerston North Hospital was closed yesterday (Wed) to patient admissions and transfers
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25/03/2009
MidCentral DHB will be reducing the number of outpatient clinics held in Dannevirke from next week s
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25/03/2009
MidCentral Health, and local businesses are supporting a national event -the Joint Effort Sponsored
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20/03/2009
An outbreak of gastroenteritis that hit the STAR Centre at Palmerston North Hospital this week has b
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17/03/2009
MidCentral District Health Board chairman Ian Wilson today announced he would be taking a voluntary
MidCentral District Health Board media releases and news updates are listed above in date order. You can follow our news and events updates:
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