Primary Health Organisation Function
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Primary Health Organisation Function
Chair’s Report NICKY SCOTT, CHAIR PEGASUS HEALTH NURSE MEMBERSHIP LTD From L-R: Jeanette Hight; Jeanette Banks; Nicky Scott; Gill Currie. In the last 12 months, we have taken a more strategic approach to engaging with current and future Pegasus Health nurse members. I’d like to thank Pegasus He...
Chair’s Report SIMON WYNN-THOMAS, CHAIR PEGASUS HEALTH CLINICAL BOARD From L-R: Dr Ramon Pink; Dr Susan Gordan; Dr Simon Wynn Thomas (Chair); Fiona Blair-Heslop; Sue Price; Dr Ben Hudson; Jacqui Lawson. Building on the outcomes of its performance appraisal, the Clinical Board has had a productive...
General Practice Professor acknowledges support from Canterbury General Practice teams GP Dee Mangin says her appointments as Professor of General Practice at both Otago and McMaster Universities have been a tribute to the Canterbury General Practice teams and patients that she has worked with. “T...
‘Overdiagnosis’ and ‘Difficult Decisions’ tackled in Pegasus Education Programme ‘Overdiagnosis’ and ‘Difficult Decisions’ were both offered as Small Group (SG) topics in Pegasus Health’s education programme in the 2015/16 year. Antibiotic resistance, gout and part one of a two-...
Supporting nurses in the community Flu vaccinations for city’s most vulnerable Christchurch City Mission's Community Mental Health Nurse Eloise Clayton. Influenza vaccinations are being offered to Christchurch City Mission clients this year, thanks to a collaboration between Pegasus Health and th...
Update from the 24 Hour Surgery Response to Valentine’s Day quake The 5.7-magnitude Valentine’s Day earthquake was a harsh reminder for the 24 Hour Surgery team of Christchurch’s ongoing vulnerability to earthquakes and the need to stay prepared. “It put our emergency response skills to t...
Inaugural Administration and Practice Management Excellence (APEX) Forum attracts strong turnout About 100 practice managers and administration staff attended Pegasus Health’s first Administration and Practice Management Excellence (APEX) Forum. The forum gave people a chance to learn about the i...
Acute Demand service ‘reassuring’ for patients David Ahlfeld and his wife Pamela. After spending five nights in hospital with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), 75-year-old David Ahlfeld couldn’t wait to return home. If it wasn’t for the Acute Demand Community Nursing service, he...
New opportunities for Canterbury students Canterbury students studying nursing, social work, health sciences and nutrition have had the chance to be placed with Pegasus Health for the first time. Pegasus Health’s Nursing Development Coordinator Di Bos says nursing students were usually placed only...