Southern District Health Board aged-care facilities sometimes operated without nurses in October
Chronic shortages of aged residential care workers in the South Island has left shifts without a registered nurse on site.
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Southern District Health Board aged-care facilities sometimes operated without nurses in October
Southern District Health Board aged-care facilities sometimes operated without registered nurses on site in October.
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Urgent moratorium request from pharmacies denied
Community pharmacies are asking the Southern District Health Board to stop issuing new contracts and develop a local pharmacy contracting policy, for fear of market saturation, but an executive says there's little point in doing so now.
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Grey Power calls for better home help support, again
As a Grey Power Zone Seven committee member, she represented patients throughout Southland and Otago. Southern DHB's manager for the health of older people Sharon Adler said all providers were subject to regular monitoring. This included certification audits every 18 months; six-monthly reviews of quality indicators like timeliness, complaints, and quality of care planning; and monthly reviews of service metrics like case mixes, demographics, and travel time, she said. Adler gave the board's Disability Support Advisory Committee an overview of the service at a meeting on Monday, explain...
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