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• Tairāwhiti

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  Research The research office provides advice, support and approvals for research studies in Tairāwhiti that impact on Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Tairāwhiti or people receiving care there. People who are seeking to advance a research proposal and need locality approval can use the research office to identify and complete the requirements for approval. Requirements for registering a request for approval Short form description of the research. Evidence of Health and Disability Ethics Committees approval. Evidence of approval where there is an impact on Māori – ask for help with this i ...

• Medications and breastfeeding

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  Many breastfeeding women are given advice to stop breastfeeding when they commence medication of various kinds. In the majority of cases women may continue to breastfeed. Dr Thomas Hale, Clinical Pharmacologist and Paediatrician, operates a forum for health professionals where he answers questions related to medications and breastfeeding with input from other practitioners. Information on the forum and other breastfeeding information can be found on Dr Hale’s website   InfantRisk (external link) .  For more information, read the YourHealth consumer page   Medications and breas ...

• Publicly funded health and disability services

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  In Aotearoa New Zealand, public funding pays for most of our health and disability services. This means eligible people can get free hospital treatment cheap or free prescriptions community support services for disabled people. Guide to eligibility To find out if you can get free health and disability services, read our  guide to eligibility. If you aren't eligible If you aren’t eligible for publicly funded healthcare, you can still get treatment and support, but you will have to pay for that. This means you should get health insurance. If you are a visitor from Australia and the U ...

• Mental health and addiction services data: calculating waiting times

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  Definition The waiting time is the number of days from the date a client was referred to a mental health or addiction service and the day when the client was first seen by the service. Clients are referred to mental health or addiction services. The services clients receive are recorded against a referral record and submitted to Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Referrals that should not be counted such as declined referrals are excluded from the report Health NZ uses data from PRIMHD, the national mental health and addiction information collection of service activity and outcomes data, to cal ...

• Whānau, Consumer and Clinician Digital Council

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  ... Te Whiti - Te Ati Awa,    Ngāi Tahu,    Locality: Whakaoriori (Masterton), Central   Tēnā koutou katoa. Ko Manawanui Lowe toku ingoa.   Mana is employed by a community-based Māori health service as an Addictions Clinician and Counsellor specialising in Forensic Practice. The holistic kaupapa or philosophy of the service sees culture as an enabler of health, including whānau, whenua, and whakapapa. Whānau can access te reo Maori, Rongoa, Mirimiri, and Whānau Ora services as part of their wellness journey.   Mana has many professional, person ...

• Main sources

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  ... Department of Health. Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora . 2024. Communicable Disease Control Manual . Wellington: Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Plotkin S, Orenstein W, Offit P, et al (eds). 2018. Plotkin’s Vaccines (7th edition) . Philadelphia: Elsevier. New Zealand epidemiology data Information on New Zealand epidemiology is sourced from data collated by the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR), on behalf of the Ministry of Health, or from Analytical Services, Ministry of Health. For the most up-to-date epidemiological data, see the   ESR Public Health Survei ...

• Legal and copyright

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  Copyright Unless otherwise stated, information is subject to Crown Copyright. Any work on this website, with the exception of photographic and graphic work (see below), may be reproduced in any number of copies and in any format or medium provided that: the content is not changed it is not sold the material is not used to promote or endorse any product or service it is not used in an inappropriate or misleading context having regard to the nature of the material any disclaimers included on the published information are reproduced on the material a Crown copyright acknowledgment to the Health a ...

• Notification for one hospital-level resident in a rest home service area

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  HealthCERT has been reviewing the processes in place for the notification for one hospital-level resident in a rest home service area (NOHRRA). We have determined that as the regulator, HealthCERT will no longer manage the oversight of this process, however it is important that processes and systems remain in place to ensure that the safety and care of these residents is maintained. From 2 September 2024, please send your NOHRRA notifications to Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora, Commissioning team, via the following email address relevant to your region (see below). You no longer need to ...

• Colour vision deficiency tests

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  ... vision deficiency is more often known as colour blindness. Its most common features are the loss or limited function of red or green photopigments – yellow and green appear redder and it can be difficult to tell violet from blue. Very rarely a person may have complete colour blindness and see the world in black, white and grey. Children are born with colour vision deficiency. It’s not something they can catch or develop after birth. Colour vision deficiency affects about 10% of the approximately 26,000 boys who are screened as part of standard Year 7 checks. Girls are significa ...

• Meningococcal

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  ... disease is a serious bacterial infection caused by the bacterium Neisseria meningitidis, known as a meningococcus. It causes severe illnesses including: meningitis (an infection of membranes that cover the brain) septicaemia (blood poisoning). View Meningococcal disease (external link) for more information, including symptoms, illness and immunisation. More detailed information can be found in the:   Immunisation Handbook Communicable Disease Control Manual Also see the Centers for Disease Control (US) (external link)  and the Health Protection Agency (UK) websites. Paren ...