Occupational Therapy
What is occupational therapy/whakaora ngangahau?Occupational therapy’s goal is to enable you to continue to participate in everyday activities even when circumstances have made it difficult for you.
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Hawke’s Bay Hospital impacted by junior doctors’ strike
Hawke’s Bay Hospital services will be severely impacted with many outpatient clinics and non-emergency surgeries postponed due to next week's planned three-day, 73 hour national strike by junior doctors. Contingency planning is in place to ensure emergency and urgent care services are available at Hawke’s Bay Hospital.
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Adverse event reports
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board is committed to patient safety and the delivery of high quality patient care. Ensuring adverse events are captured, investigated and reported is important in building a culture of safety, minimising errors and avoidable harm and learning from the errors that do occur.
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Stomach bug widespread in community
More people presenting to Hawke’s Bay Hospital in the past 24 hours with a stomach bug has seen the hospital close its Acute Assessment Unit (AAU) to act as an isolation unit for people with the bug.
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Respiratory illnesses on the rise
26 July 2017
Hawke’s Bay Hospital continues to remain extremely busy with an increase in admissions of people experiencing respiratory illnesses like asthma, pneumonia and bronchitis. -
Hawke’s Bay Hospital impacted by junior doctors’ strike
Hawke’s Bay Hospital services will be impacted with many outpatient clinics and non-emergency surgeries postponed or put on stand-by due to next week’s planned two day (48 hour) national strike by junior doctors.
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Hawke’s Bay Hospital at capacity
Hawke’s Bay Hospital is at capacity, and unless it’s an emergency, people are asked to seek medical care from their family doctor, medical centre, pharmacy or to call Healthline.
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Find a community dental clinic
School-based clinics for children aged 0-13, and for adolescents attending Wairoa College up to the age of 18, help parents prevent their children having poor oral health.
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Napier Maternity Resource Centre
The Maternity Resource Centre at 234 Kennedy Rd is a one-stop shop for pregnancy and early parenting needs. It provides pregnancy tests, support to find a midwife, midwifery assessments and clinics, breastfeeding support and pregnancy and parenting information. Please don’t hesistate to come with your questions or queries.
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Gastro update Friday 19 August
Welcome to Friday’s District Health Board updateThere was encouraging news from Hawke’s Bay District Health Board’s CEO Dr Kevin Snee at Friday’s media conference that the number of people needing medical care was continuing to decline.