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News: tagged with "immunisation"

• Upcoming Community Vaccination Event

  Posted: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: event, vaccination, immunisation, families
  Etu Pasifika invites families to come along and get vaccinated before going on holiday or heading to the Islands! You can get your COVID-19 booster as well as flu and Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccines. Date: Saturday 1st October 2022

• Outpatient appointments postponed to free up staff for acute care

  Posted: Thursday, July 14, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: health, services, disease, care, immunisation, vaccination
  Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury media release: 14th July 2022 New measures to alleviate the pressure on health services in Waitaha are being put in place, says Interim District Director - Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury Dr Peter Bramley

• Multiple winter illnesses placing pressure on health system

  Posted: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: disease, vaccination, immunisation, health, services, care
  Canterbury District Health Board media release: 7th June 2022 Canterbury has now recorded more than 155,000 cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began - with almost 1000 new cases recorded today

• Influenza vaccinations now available

  Posted: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: disease, immunisation
  Canterbury DHB media release: 4th April 2022 There may be higher rates of influenza in New Zealand this winter with our borders reopening

• Inequities increase in vaccination of pregnant women

  Posted: Thursday, March 24, 2022 in: Resources and Information With tags: vaccination, immunisation, women, inequality, research
  Immunisation Advisory Centre media release: 23rd March 2022 Recent research adds to alarm bells that pregnant people are not getting vaccinated in big enough numbers

• Cantabrians urged to make bookings to get their boosters

  Posted: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: disease, vaccination, immunisation
  Canterbury DHB media release: 21st February 2022 Cantabrians are being urged to make bookings to get their boosters as soon as they become eligible, says Tracey Maisey, Incident Controller, Canterbury DHB Emergency Coordination Centre

• New Zealanders advised to get boosted and keep doing the basics well

  Posted: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: prevention, disease, immunisation, vaccination
  Ministry of Health media release: 16th February 2022 The best thing New Zealanders can do as we move into Phase 2 of our response to the Omicron variant of COVID-19 is get boosted and give each other some space, said Director General of Health, Dr Ashley

• Survey asks Kiwis to express vaccine preferences

  Posted: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: survey, immunisation, vaccination
  A team of researchers at the University of Auckland is asking Kiwis what they need to know about vaccines and their preferences for vaccination - as part of an effort to combat misinformation and vaccine hesitancy

• Free flu vaccines for more New Zealanders

  Posted: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: immunisation, vaccination
  The Government will fund 250,000 more free flu vaccines for this year’s winter campaign to protect our most vulnerable communities and the health system, Health Minister Andrew Little says

• Bookings strongly recommended for tamariki COVID-19 immunisations

  Posted: Wednesday, January 19, 2022 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: immunisation, children, vaccination, disease
  Parents or caregivers of 5 to 11-year-olds can now get their tamariki immunised against COVID-19, says Dr Helen Skinner, Senior Responsible Officer for the COVID-19 response, Canterbury DHB

• New text service to support disabled peoples’ vaccinations

  Posted: Thursday, November 25, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: disabilities, health, information, vaccination, immunisation
  Beehive media release: 25th November 2021 Efforts to support disabled peoples’ vaccinations go from strength-to-strength with the launch of a new text service, Minister for Disability Issues Carmel Sepuloni announced today

• Seven key points you should know about COVID-19 vaccines

  Posted: Thursday, October 28, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: disease, immunisation, vaccination
  The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners has been working with epidemiologists, and infectious disease and vaccine experts to cut through the misinformation that is circulating about COVID-19

• My Covid Record website launches

  Posted: Thursday, October 14, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: vaccination, immunisation
  Ministry of Health media release: 13th October 2021 Kiwis can now view their COVID-19 vaccination records through the website My Covid Record, as the first step in the Ministry of Health's work towards providing vaccination certificates

• Changes to MIHI COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic

  Posted: Wednesday, September 1, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: maori, immunisation, vaccination
  This vaccination clinic will be based at Shop 2 in South City Shopping Centre (555 Colombo Street, Christchurch) during Alert Levels 2, 3 and 4

• Pasifika vaccination clinics from Tangata Atumotu Trust

  Posted: Wednesday, September 1, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: pacific health, vaccination, immunisation
  Tangata Atumotu Trust (TAT) have several ways that Pasifika in Ōtautahi can get a COVID-19 vaccine. They invite everyone within the Pasifika community who are 12 years old and over who haven’t yet been vaccinated to come along and get immunised