New Year Honours: Yvonne Boyes on supporting health journeys
30 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
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Yvonne Boyes has been awarded a Queen s Service Medal for her services to health, particularly nursing and cancer treatment. Photo / Supplied
Shauni James is the Rotorua Weekender reportershauni.james@nzme.co.nz@thedailypost
For Yvonne Boyes, the recognition of her many years and contributions towards health in her community has left her flabbergasted .
Boyes many years of service have been acknowledged in the New Year Honours today as she was awarded the Queen s Service Medal for her services to health, particularly nursing and cancer treatment.
She said she was flabbergasted when she found out she was being awarded the QSM.
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Press Release – Bay of Plenty District Health Board
Above: students from backgrounds including oral health therapy,medicine, nursing, pharmacy, nutrition and dietetics, social work, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, podiatry, midwifery, speech language therapy, paramedicine, and optometry took part in this year’s RHIP program.
The challenges of 2020 have demonstrated more than ever the need for an interprofessional approach to healthcare and that’s exactly what the Eastern Bay’s Rural Health Interprofessional Programme (RHIP) delivers.
RHIP Academic Co-ordinator, Yvonne Boyes, said she had been wowed by the energy, positivity and dedication of the 50 students who participated in the Bay of Plenty District Health Board (BOPDHB) programme this year.
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