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New CM Health roles help Pacific patients impacted by COVID-19

 Koke Aanauatasi is relishing her new role as a community health worker.   The former Counties Manukau Health cleaner loves the opportunity to help people within her community.

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2 months ago
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Cervical smear coordinator bridging the cultural gap around healthcare for Asian communities

Moving to New Zealand as a teenager from her homeland of India was a bit of a culture shock for cervical smear coordinator Meena Narang at first.

3 months ago
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Counties Manukau Health develops ground-breaking primary and community services system of care

Counties Manukau Health (CM Health) is developing a system of care for primary and community services to support people and whaanau living with long-term conditions (LTCs) that is the first of its kind.

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3 months ago
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It’s more than a job, it’s my vocation

From an early age, growing up in a large happy family in peaceful Nepal, Counties Manukau Health psychiatrist Dr Shishir Regmi knew he wanted to practice medicine. “There wasn’t a practising doctor in my family but I was inspired by our local doctor who cared for our community.

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3 months ago
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Where to get tested in Auckland this Labour weekend

The metro Auckland DHBs (Waitematā, Auckland and Counties Manukau) will operate seven community testing centres (CTCs) through the long weekend (24-26 October) to ensure our communities have good access to a COVID-19 test if they need one.

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3 months ago
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Two additional Community Testing Centres open on the North Shore

Two additional community testing centres (CTCs) are open on the North Shore in response to an advisory issued by Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS). ARPHS is asking people who were at The Malt pub in Greenhithe on Friday night, 16 October, from 7.

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3 months ago
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Papakura local says don’t leave anything to chance, do the bowel screening test

 For Papakura local 73-year-old Frances Stubbs, the 25th of June 2020 is a date she'll never forget. Not only would it have been her father's 100th birthday, it was also the date she underwent an operation to remove colon cancer.

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3 months ago
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Tu ke Mau ti Fakamatalahi ko au koe Niue - Stand Tall and Be Proud, I am a Niuean

As we celebrate Niue Language Week from 18 to 24 October, two of our staff share how being a proud Niuean influences their work at Counties Manukau Health (CM Health)“I was born in Niue and came to New Zealand for the first time in 1984.

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3 months ago
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Meet SIMeon from NetworkZ

Meet SIMeon, who has undertaken a contract training staff here at CM Health. His role is not for the faint-hearted, and he often finds himself with life-threatening injuries requiring surgery.

3 months ago
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CM Health recognises International Infant and Baby Loss Awareness Day

For many families facing the nightmare of losing a baby Debbie Davies, Counties Manukau Health’s Perinatal Loss Midwife walks the trail of grief with them and it was one difficult conversation three years ago that spurred her to seek a service at Middlemore that would formally acknowledge International Infant and...

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3 months ago
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