Wednesday, 28 July 2021, 3:15 pm
Residents on Rakiura Stewart Island have turned out in
force today (28 July) for their COVID-19 vaccinations at the
first of a two-day COVID-19 clinic offering vaccinations to
the 385 eligible people on the island.
Within the
first two and a half hours, more than 100 people had been
vaccinated, with no sign of demand slowing.
The
clinic, set up at the Stewart Island Community Centre, has 4
vaccinating booths and is run by 12 staff, led by nurse
practitioner Nadine Goldsmith, of Awarua Whānau
Services.
“We’re so pleased that many residents
are coming down here to take up this opportunity of getting
Wednesday, 28 July 2021, 11:22 am
The Ministry of Health needs to urgently improve its
oversight of services for people with an intellectual
disability and high and complex needs, says Chief Ombudsman
Peter Boshier.
Mr Boshier today released Oversight,
his investigation report into the Ministry of Health’s
oversight of the High and Complex Framework. The
Framework is a network of hospital and community services
for people with an intellectual disability in secure or
supervised care. As steward, or kaitiaki, of New Zealand’s
health and disability system, the Ministry is responsible
for ensuring the Framework can deliver the services it’s
designed to , Mr Boshier says.
Wednesday, 28 July 2021, 11:10 am
Master Plumbers is telling the Government to stop turning
a blind eye to compelling evidence that New Zealanders are
being put at serious health risk by drinking water with high
levels of lead.
The comments follow the release of a
report from the Dunedin City Council into why drinking water
in Karitane and Waikouaiti contained elevated levels of
lead. Testing showed in some drinking water the level of
lead exceeded the allowable level by almost 40
times.
The report findings show clearly that tapware
was one of the main causes, with lead leaching from local
fittings and pipework determined to be the likely cause of
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