We have had a request from our radiology colleagues to try and include only relevant and pertinent clinical details in the e-Referrals.....

Waiting times for all community radiology requests have decreased significantly in the past few years. For example most urgent x-ray requests are performed in a 1 week and non-urgents within 2 weeks.....

Most of us now have access to CHIP and use it for getting access to hospital clinical notes, discharge summaries, Eclair results and prescriptions.....

There is now an eReferral available for an ACC community pain management service, provided by QE Health in Rotorua.....

These will be officially launched on Wednesday October 4th at 6.30pm in the Conference Centre, Tauranga Hospital.....

In May this year a new respiratory specialist started work at our DHB, having come over from Europe to work in the beautiful Bay of Plenty. Patryk is trying to revamp the sleep service, and has started by accepting ALL grade 2 referrals for sleep studies, effective immediately.....

A few weeks ago, many of us had the opportunity to hear Rachel Callander speak. Rachel has a very simple story, which she tells powerfully: “I work with health professionals across many pecialities, teaching them to use empathy and open hearted language in their clinics and meetings with patients or parents.....