Health Care

A patient who died in the waiting room of Rotorua Hospital’s emergency department (ED) last month had been waiting three hours to be seen.

A leaked document written by West Coast Health proposes urgent primary and after hour services will no longer be offered by doctors and nurses for the entire West Coast.

The fact is, ethnicity (let alone “race”) is not mentioned in te Tiriti or in Pharmac’s own detailed Tiriti policy.

Pounamu Keepa hopes a familiar face behind the pharmacy counter will help improve the trust between whānau Māori and the health care system.

A common struggle for whānau dealing with dementia is getting a diagnosis so that whānau can receive the much needed support to care for their loved ones with the disease.