Press Release – Northern Region Health Coordination Centre The Waiheke Island Medical Centre has today become the first General Practice (GP) clinic in Auckland to begin vaccinating its patients against COVID-19. The clinic in Oneroa delivered its first vaccinations this morning and will continue to rollout …
The Waiheke Island Medical Centre has today become the first General Practice (GP) clinic in Auckland to begin vaccinating its patients against COVID-19.
The clinic in Oneroa delivered its first vaccinations this morning and will continue to rollout its immunisation programme over the coming months aiming to vaccinate all of the island’s inhabitants who haven’t already received their vaccinations on the mainland. At capacity they expect to vaccinate up to 90 each day.
The GP clinic is the first of many across Auckland starting their vaccination programmes from this week. Three more GP clinics will start vaccinating from Thursday: Ormiston Medical Centre, Hyland Park Medical and East Care Accident and Medical Centre, before a further 10 are added next week. The initial tranche of GP practices is based in communities highlighted by the government as higher priority.
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GP clinics will start vaccinating eligible Aucklanders from this week. They will start with vaccinating older Māori and Pacific people and their household contacts or those over 65 living in south Auckland. “Many more” will come on board over the next two months.
“East Auckland is now the only part of Auckland without a 24/7 primary health care service despite having a population of 130,000 people and growing quickly,” they said on Thursday. They urged the community to sign the petition, which would be presented to Counties Manukau DHB s chief executive and board. However, East Care Group chief executive Gordon Armstrong told
Stuff even if given funding immediately, it will not be able to find doctors in time to stay open. The decision to close overnight had been made in the face of mounting pressure, staff burnout and “spiralling clinical risk”, Armstrong earlier said. “We can no longer provide a safe and high-quality overnight operation.”
Press Release – East Care East Care Group Chief Executive Gordon Armstrong announced today that East Care Accident and Medical was ending the overnight service it has been running in Counties Manukau for more than 20 years. This is a move we have taken with enormous regret, …
East Care Group Chief Executive Gordon Armstrong announced today that East Care Accident and Medical was ending the overnight service it has been running in Counties Manukau for more than 20 years.
“This is a move we have taken with enormous regret,” Mr Armstrong said. “We know better than most that there is a significant need for the service we have been offering and that it’s highly prized within the community. But we have found ourselves increasingly caught between a rock and a hard place, to the point where we can no longer provide a safe and high-quality overnight operation.”
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