Firstly, I wanted to wish a happy New Year to each and every one of you and to wish you all the very best for 2018. Before we dive headlong into another busy year I wanted to recognise, and thank ...Read more

The Dietetic Paediatric Service reports that due to high demand and limited resources, they will no longer be accepting referrals from General Practitioners, Public Health Nurses and Plunket ...Read more

Last year an initiative was started in BOP to improve management of our COPD patients and to help keep them out of hospital. The ‘Blue Card’ programme requires a member of ...Read more

Healthshare are in the process of reviewing our current regional pathway tool (Map of Medicine). They need your feedback on the current regional tool, and other local DHB tools, e.g. Bay Navigator ...Read more

We are all probably aware of a group of patients that present very frequently and not always appropriately to the Emergency Department for their health care needs ...Read more

Alcohol Healthwatch and the Bay of Plenty DHB Community Health 4 Kids (BOPDHB CH4K) invites you to a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder workshop with Dr Valerie McGinn Neuropsychologist ...Read more

Our newly set-up TIA clinic at Tauranga Hospital has been running successfully since May this year, and no doubt you would have had great feedback from your patients ...Read more

I was delighted to celebrate the huge contribution made to our communities by the team members honoured at the Staff Recognition Awards in Whakatāne and Tauranga last week ...Read more

Based on feedback from the referrals centre, here are some miscellaneous points about specialist referrals. If you fax a referral, there’s no need to send a hard copy in the post as well – the fax is sufficient ...Read more

You may already be aware that New Zealand is in the early stages of a national outbreak of whooping cough (pertussis). Babies aged up to one are particularly vulnerable to whooping cough ...Read more