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Posted at 8:24am Friday 04th May, 2012
 The Bay of Plenty District Health Board is getting a new toolkit to assist in the reduction of waiting times and improve the quality of elective surgery.
Health Minister Tony Ryall says district health boards, including the BOPDHB, have made great progress increasing elective surgery for patients performing 27,000 more operations now compared with number...
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Posted at 10:43am Thursday 03rd May, 2012
 Elderly residents gathered for a celebratory birthday bash in honour of their village’s tenth year of business at the weekend.
Althorp Village in Tauranga moved in its first resident on March 27, 2002.
Althorp residents dressed to impress for the birthday dinner.
On Sunday night 175 residents, special guests and the Tauranga Mayor Stuart Crosby...
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Posted at 5:14pm Thursday 19th Apr, 2012
 An internet drafting programme helping doctors get patients into hospitals for treatment is being showcased in Te Puke tonight by Health Minister Tony Ryall.
The minister will be speaking at the Te Puke Citizens Hall at 6pm today marking the end to the pilot programme written 40 general practitioners and hospital specialists.
Called Bay Navigator -...
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Posted at 4:32pm Wednesday 11th Apr, 2012 | By Letitia Atkinson letitia@thesun.co.nz
 A roadshow raising awareness of cleft lip and palate birth defects is in Tauranga today.
The Cleft New Zealand Roadshow at the Bayfair car park is working its way through New Zealand from Christchurch to Auckland to promote awareness of the defect that affects the upper lip and roof of the mouth.
Isabelle Plummer, left, and Jade Morrison, with Cleft...
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Posted at 2:48pm Sunday 08th Apr, 2012
 An increase in the investment in school-based health services means there will now be a nurse in every decile three secondary school.
Currently, only decile one and two school have fully government funded nurses.
Deciles are otherwise known as Socio-Economic Decile Bands, a decile is a group into which similar schools in New Zealand are placed.
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Posted at 8:22am Saturday 24th Mar, 2012
 Bay of Plenty parents are being warned to protect their children against whooping cough.
An outbreak of whooping started in the West Coast, Nelson and Marlborough last year, and has led to significant increases in the number of cases in Canterbury, Hawkes Bay and Wellington regions this year.
Medical Officer of Health Dr Neil de Wet says the number...
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Posted at 9:24am Friday 23rd Mar, 2012 | By Letitia Atkinson letitia@thesun.co.nz
 Global Fitness at Mount Maunganui is ‘tearing strips off the boss’ today to raise money for the Child Cancer Foundation.
Brave volunteers and staff at the fitness centre on Newton Street are shaving and waxing their legs to raise money for the national charity.
Paul getting his legs waxed for child cancer.
Organiser Vikki Searle says she...
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Posted at 3:43pm Friday 16th Mar, 2012
 Hundreds of people are expected at Mount Maunganui Beach tomorrow where good-hearted Tauranga residents will be shaving their heads to raise money for the Child Cancer Foundation.
More than 40 people are participating in the Mount Beach Bald FunRazor event on Mount Maunganui Main Beach on Saturday including Dame Susan Devoy and Port of Tauranga chief...
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Posted at 8:51am Friday 09th Mar, 2012
 There will be no space left unfilled by the time the new adolescent lounge opens at Tauranga Hospital in June.
Through donations and support from Bayfair shoppers and retailers, the purchase of a substantial amount of new equipment for the lounge has been made possible.
Tauranga Hospital children’s ward clinical nurse manager Lynnece Dowle and...
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Posted at 11:42am Tuesday 06th Mar, 2012 | By Letitia Atkinson letitia@thesun.co.nz
 As the flu season approaches, Toi te Ora Public Health is advising no new strains of influenza have been detected this year.
In 2009, a pandemic strain of influenza saw many people affected as the new strain took hold in New Zealand.
Public Health Bay of Plenty medical officer of health Dr Neil de Wet says the strain is now considered a normal influenza...
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