Fond memories for 50-year Middlemore veteran
A lot has changed in the nearly 50 years that orderly Ivy Tauhinu has been employed at Middlemore Hospital. The buildings, the uniforms, and even the way to appropriately address staff have all shifted dramatically since a young Ivy started with the hospital on 10 October 1969.
New state of the art scanner for Counties Manukau Health
A state-of the-art Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine just installed at Counties Manukau Health’s Middlemore Hospital is set to make life easier for the patients who use it.
DHBs seek mediation to try and settle Midwives negotiations
DHB Media release 6 November 2018 | District Health Boards remain positive that mediation will help solve the impasses in pay talks with midwives and prevent a threatened series of two-hour strikes each day from 22 November to 5 December.
Hand hygiene a focus at CM Health's Patient Safety Week
Media release 4 November 2018 | Don’t give germs a hand. That’s the theme Counties Manukau Health is promoting for Patient Safety Week, which this year is being combined with Antibiotic Awareness Week.
Extension of community laboratory testing contract provides certainty
The Northern Region’s four district health boards, covering a population of 1. 8 million people, have secured a long-term agreement that provides ongoing certainty about the provision of community-referred pathology services.