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The grand opening of the rebuilt 300m Governors Bay jetty is less than two weeks away.

The Southern District Health Board has applied for funding to upgrade its intensive and critical care infrastructure while WellSouth is ensuring Covid-19 testing will be freely available.

Ross Giblin/Stuff Dr Bryan Betty, a Porirua GP and the medical director of the New Zealand College of GPs, said RSV could be “burning out”. RSV illness seasons were difficult to predict but tended to be shorter than flu seasons, ESR’s public health physician, Dr Sarah Jefferies said, which might indicate we were past the peak. But the trajectory of the illness was even more difficult to forecast given the season began with low immunity against RSV due to the Covid-19 response. “This explains the exceptionally high RSV activity we’ve seen over the past five weeks in New Zealand, b...

Ross Giblin/Stuff Dr Bryan Betty, a Porirua GP and the medical director of the New Zealand College of GPs, said RSV could be “burning out”. RSV illness seasons were difficult to predict but tended to be shorter than flu seasons, ESR’s public health physician, Dr Sarah Jefferies, said, which might indicate we were past the peak. But the trajectory of the illness was even more difficult to forecast given the season began with low immunity against RSV due to the Covid-19 response. “This explains the exceptionally high RSV activity we have seen over the past five weeks in New Zealand b...

Nurse's small, treatable tumour became terminal after delay Invercargill lawyer Kate McHugh, whose mother died of lung cancer. (Photo / Luisa Girao) Nurse's small, treatable tumour became terminal after delay Sat, 17 Jul 2021, 10:27AM Invercargill nurse Kathryn Harper had great faith in the health system, but was ultimately let down by it. Five weeks ago, Harper died of lung cancer, a disease detected early enough that she could likely have been successfully treated, except for the lengthy delays in diagnosis and arranging treatment. "She worked for 50 years in that space,...