Tuesday, 26 January 2021, 8:29 am
A woman inspired to give blood after losing her mum in a
road traffic accident is just one of a team of ‘heroes’
at Tauranga Hospital who have been recognised by the NZ
Blood Service.
The NZ Blood Service presented Tauranga
Hospital’s Team Red with a trophy on Wednesday (20
January) for being the Bay of Plenty work group with the
largest number of blood donations, 838, up to the end of
2020.
Typist Cally Stratton is one of 46 donors who
form the team. She was just 15 when her mum was involved in
a head-on collision, an incident which changed her life
Thursday, 21 January 2021, 9:17 am
A one-stop-shop cardiology centre opened four years ago
is delivering on its promise to bring care closer to home
for Bay of Plenty heart patients.
The dedicated
Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory (Cath Lab) at Tauranga
Hospital took its first patient on the afternoon of Monday
16 January 2017. In the four years since the dedicated
facility opened, staff there have performed 1000
Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCIs). It brings the
number of PCIs, more commonly known as stents, performed in
total at Tauranga Hospital to 2000.
“The milestone
of 2000 PCIs has taken since 2012 to reach. So that’s five
years for the first thousand and now four years for the
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Whakatāne role model Luke Gray earns local hero award
12 Jan, 2021 08:46 PM
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Bay of Plenty District Health Board occupational therapist Luke Gray received Kiwibank Local Hero of the Year Award - Te Pou Toko o te Tau. Photo / Supplied
Bay of Plenty District Health Board occupational therapist Luke Gray received Kiwibank Local Hero of the Year Award - Te Pou Toko o te Tau. Photo / Supplied
Rotorua Daily Post
Luke Gray has been recognised as a local hero for his work supporting young people s mental health in his Whakatāne community.
The Bay of Plenty District Health Board (BOPDHB) occupational therapist Luke said he was honoured and humbled to receive a prestigious Kiwibank Local Hero of the Year Award - Te Pou Toko o te Tau.
Mental health services urgently needed in Canterbury, BOP - therapist Jean Bell
A Whakatāne therapist says the Whakaari eruption and Christchurch mosque shooting reveal a health system unable to deal with mass casualty events.
This comes amid calls for millions of dollars of promised mental health funding to be urgently re-routed to Canterbury and the Bay of Plenty.
Irene Begg, a trauma counsellor based near Whakatāne, was involved in the mental health response to the Whakaari eruption and the Christchurch mosque shooting.
She said the same problems of people suffering from vicarious trauma, struggling access to access funded mental health support, have cropped up in both tragedies, while hospital workers and emergency service staff could access counselling through their employer.