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The death of a man whose body was found in a sinkhole is not suspicious, police say. Peter Michael Miller, 40, was found dead at a rural property on Pigville...
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) welcomes the Nursing Safe Staffing Review, and specifically the effectiveness of the implementation of ‘Care Capacity Demand Management (CCDM)’ at all Aotearoa New Zealand DHBs
“It’s what we’d hoped to see for the rest of the country. “However, there is still a lot of uncertainty around actual dates for roll-out by individual DHBs. By now we certainly would have expected that all staff at rest homes around the country to have their first vaccination, or at the very least have confirmed dates.” Andrea Staufer gives Cyril Martin, a resident of Stillwater Lifecare & Village in Richmond, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Wallace said he was not sure what was causing the delays, but “with the trans-Tasman bubble and quarantine-free travel upon us increasing th...
Our vaccine hesitancy problem New Zealand’s long-term strategy for managing the impact of Covid-19 is to achieve herd immunity via mass vaccination. But a significant number of people are likely to refuse the vaccine. Many of them will do so because of misplaced fears about the vaccine, stoked by misinformation. Across the country, the proportion of Māori children and babies vaccinated against a range of diseases is about 5 percentage points lower than for children and babies of European ethnicity. Among people aged over 65, there is a 9 percentage point gap in vaccination rates for th...
“I just got to the point where I thought I don’t have an excuse,” Stocker said. He said his only remaining apprehensions about vaccination were the possible judgement from medical staff and the cost. In 2017, he rolled up his sleeve for a series of vaccines which were free and the nurses “didn't make an issue of it”, he said. “Those apprehensions were very unfounded and that was the last barrier to get through.” Growing up, Stocker said his mum “didn't like the overmedicalisation of everything” and felt her children’s immune systems were healthy enough. During univ...