Focus on People is West Coast DHB’s special newsletter, published at the end of every year.
This special 2018 edition once again shares with our wider community special achievements and stories on the beautiful West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island. We invite you to all celebrate with us!
Articles in this newsletter include:
- Message from West Coast DHB Chief Executive David Meates and Medical Director, Patient Safety & Outcomes Vicki Roberson
- Endoscopy coordinator receives award
- Pregnancy support from rural midwife worth its weight in gold
- West Coast DHB health targets
- Working as a midwife on the West Coast
- WCDHB Strategic Focus and Priorities
- The value of community teamwork
- Community falls prevention
- Enhancing patient experience in theatre
- Improvements to infusion and oncology services benefit patients
- CT head perfusion scans available
- Embedding Takarangi cultural competency framework into West Coast health services
- West Coast health facilities update (Including Timelapse images)
- A decade of Walking in Another’s Shoes
- Empowering inpatient nursing staff
- West Coast Alliance highlights key achievements
- Palliative care team increases its public profile
- Grey District Nursing ‘Meet and Greet’ discharge planning
- Theatre team excels in surgical safety checklist auditing
- West Coast General Practices achieve Cornerstone accreditation
- Team recruited to reduce pressure injuries
- National patient experience survey results
- Raising healthy West Coast kids
- Hand hygiene plays an important part in patient safety
- West Coast DHB tests emergency readiness
- Red tray introduced to assist patients at meal times
- We want your feedback