The West Coast District Health Board, the region’s three Mayors and other well-known locals are joining forces to urge West Coasters to get vaccinated against COVID-19
The Government's three-year wage freeze for public servants will undermine efforts to recruit medical staff to the West Coast, a district health board member says.
Mixed feelings in South Island over major health sector shake-up
20 Apr, 2021 10:09 PM
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Health Minister Andrew Little has outlined the Government s plan to fix New Zealand s healthcare system. Photo / Mark Mitchell
Health Minister Andrew Little has outlined the Government s plan to fix New Zealand s healthcare system. Photo / Mark Mitchell
NZ Herald
By: Hugh Collins and Tim Cronshaw
There appears to be mixed feelings in the South Island over the Government s announcement all of the 20 District Health Boards will be replaced by one, single national health body.
It will be called Health New Zealand and is part of the biggest changes to the country s health care system in history.
RNZ
The massive Alpine Fault is due for another big earthquake and scientists have been drawing up a scenario of what the devastation would look like. (First published May 2018)
The West Coast is one of the regions most at risk if a massive earthquake is generated by the Alpine Fault, but local leadership say the region is prepared. New research has shown the chances of the South Island’s Alpine Fault generating a damaging earthquake in the next 50 years are much higher than previously thought. The research, led by Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington senior lecturer Dr Jamie Howarth, showed the probability of that earthquake occurring before 2068 is about 75 per cent. It had previously been thought to be about 30 per cent.