Waikato DHB Population Health has been notified of five cases of measles in the Waikato.....

Shortly after moving into my new role as CEO, I asked our Executive Team what they considered to be the most important things that we as a team needed to do to improve our DHB. Four themes came through strongly.... ....

Many GPs may already be adding photographs to their referrals but if you aren’t I thought it worth highlighting how relatively easy this is using BPAC eReferrals.....

The following decisions have recently been published on the Health and Disability Commissioner (HDC) website: ....

A new diagnostic tool highlighting MND ‘red flags’ has been developed for GPs- Painless, progressive weakness – Could this be motor neurone disease? ....

Clinical research is essential in the provision of quality health care and is an integral part of health care delivery.....

You’ll know our DHB vision is ‘healthy, thriving communities’. This vision provided the motivation for our participation in the recent Oxfam Trailwalker event in Whakatane.....

This course has been run a number of times locally and is without doubt the best communication training course I have ever attended.....

The Gynaecology department is reviewing the way in which miscarriage is managed in WBOP. They are looking to get some feedback as to how GPs are currently managing miscarriage.....

Please note that the DHB is no longer able to offer bronchial challenge tests to people who require them for recreational purposes i.e. dive medicals.....

In an effort to improve access to surgery for those patients with carpal tunnel syndrome requiring a carpal tunnel release but do not meet ACC criteria, we have developed a pathway by which patients meeting certain criteria will be triaged straight to surgery.....