Waitara Health Centre

Name :

Waitara Health Centre

Address  :

10 Hutchins Street

Town  :

Waitara

State  :

Taranaki

Country  :

NEW ZEALAND

Post Code:

4656

Phone  :

06 754 8119

Fax  :

06 754 8461

Web URL  :


Description

The Waitara Health Centre is open from 830am to 530pm weekdays District Nursing and Public Health Nurse services are provided

Clinics provided at Waitara include Diabetes Educator Asthma Educator Cervical Screening Dietitian VisionHearing Testing Alcohol and Drug Counsellor Paediatric Public Health and Mental Health Clinics
Plan to reduce heart patient wait times

Cardiologists around New Zealand are watching a pilot project at Waikato Hospital in the hope it will help reduce treatment times for acute coronary syndrome The number of patients going to hospital emergency departments with symptoms of the syndrome which include chest pain nausea and sweating is rising nationwide putting pressure on bed availa... Read More

Not all ICUs need a specialist at night study

The results published in the New England Journal of Medicine counter an argument from some in the medical community that ICUs need roundtheclock intensivists doctors who specialize in critical care quotOur knee jerk reaction is to try to put intensivists in every ICU at all hours of the day and that reaction is likely a misstep because it overs... Read More