Health board on target 

Waitemata District Health Board has been awarded an ‘outstanding’ achievement by the Ministry of Health for increasing the number of people receiving elective surgery at its hospitals. The DHB achieved 3,434 elective surgical discharges for the first quarter of the financial year, 10 per cent above the target of 3,122.

Improved access to elective surgery is one of six health targets set by the Ministry of Health for all 21 DHBs around the country. The others are shorter stays in emergency departments; shorter waits for cancer treatment; increased immunisation; better help for smokers in hospital to quit; and better diabetes and cardiovascular services... Read more 

 

View the Ministry of Health's Health Targets newspaper advertisement showing how the 21 DHBs compare.

Learn more about the Health Target reporting system - view the Ministry of Health website.

 

Free vitamin D to slash number of rest-home falls

Falls by residents of Waitemata rest homes are expected to drop by 28 per cent because of a new, fully-funded scheme to make Vitamin D supplements free to all residents. The ACC-led scheme, launched in August and being run in partnership with Waitemata DHB, allows all Waitemata rest-home residents the opportunity to take free supplements of Vitamin D, if they want it and their GP is happy to prescribe it. Read more...