Press Release – Bay of Plenty District Health Board Whakatnes Trident High School graduate Aman Singh is the fortunate recipient of this years Bay of Plenty Medical Students Acorn Financial Grant of $4,000. Aman is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Auckland and is currently …
Whakatāne’s Trident High School graduate Aman Singh is the fortunate recipient of this year’s Bay of Plenty Medical Students Acorn Financial Grant of $4,000.
Aman is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Auckland and is currently placed at Tauranga Hospital for the year. He has an educational background in Public Health, completing a Bachelor of Health Science and Postgraduate Diploma and is extremely grateful to the Acorn Foundation for awarding him the financial grant.
Press Release – Bay of Plenty District Health Board An outreach clinic in ptiki has been labeled phenomenally successful by organisers looking to reduce barriers to healthcare in the Eastern Bay of Plenty. One of the main aims of an outreach clinic such as this was to reduce the barriers …
An outreach clinic in Ōpōtiki has been labeled ‘phenomenally successful’ by organisers looking to reduce barriers to healthcare in the Eastern Bay of Plenty.
“One of the main aims of an outreach clinic such as this was to reduce the barriers to healthcare, improve patient access and subsequent health outcomes,” said Bay of Plenty District Health Board (BOPDHB) Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) Clinical Nurse Specialist Jeannie Bruning.
Friday, 18 December 2020, 11:00 am
An outreach clinic in Ōpōtiki has been labeled
‘phenomenally successful’ by organisers looking to
reduce barriers to healthcare in the Eastern Bay of
Plenty.
“One of the main aims of an outreach clinic
such as this was to reduce the barriers to healthcare,
improve patient access and subsequent health outcomes,”
said Bay of Plenty District Health Board (BOPDHB) Ear, Nose
and Throat (ENT) Clinical Nurse Specialist Jeannie
Bruning.
“After much planning and preparation, a
phenomenally successful ENT clinic was held at Ōpōtiki
Community Health Centre. The attendance to this first,
predominantly paediatric, clinic was outstanding and there
Press Release – Bay of Plenty District Health Board
Above: students from backgrounds including oral health therapy,medicine, nursing, pharmacy, nutrition and dietetics, social work, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, podiatry, midwifery, speech language therapy, paramedicine, and optometry took part in this year’s RHIP program.
The challenges of 2020 have demonstrated more than ever the need for an interprofessional approach to healthcare and that’s exactly what the Eastern Bay’s Rural Health Interprofessional Programme (RHIP) delivers.
RHIP Academic Co-ordinator, Yvonne Boyes, said she had been wowed by the energy, positivity and dedication of the 50 students who participated in the Bay of Plenty District Health Board (BOPDHB) programme this year.
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