Thames Hospital’s new clinical centre is all set to open its doors at the end of the month but local residents are invited to a special preview next Friday, 17 October. The Thames Clinical Centre will house the... Read more

Thames is to get a new stand alone primary maternity facility. The Waikato DHB board today voted unanimously to approve the building of the facility in Mary St, Thames at a cost of $893,000. Primary birthing facilities... Read more

DHB improves services & saves costs with phone dealEnabling clients to contact its community workers wherever they are and reducing costs are just two of the ways the Waikato District Health Board will benefit from a new contract with Vodafone to... Read more

Generous, committed, hospital hosts thanked Waikato Hospital’s host service was established in 2003 with 18 dedicated volunteers giving up their own time to help patients and visitors find their way. Since then, the service has doubled and the hospital... Read more

Waikato Hospital's clinical director of cardiology Dr Gerry Devlin last night won the Medical Science award at the Kudos Awards ceremony in Hamilton. The award was for the research he is doing with AgResearch on heart... Read more

Health Waikato will lead out a new system for delivering trauma care to the rest of the Midland region next year. The model, led by Waikato Hospital director of trauma Grant Christey, is a holistic and... Read more

New Zealand's first nurse practitioner celebrates DVD Seven years ago, Waikato neo-natal nurse Deborah Harris became the country's first nurse practitioner. Therefore, she sees last week's release of a Ministry of Health DVD focusing on the work of... Read more

Waikato District Health Board has granted more than $225,000 to seven local schools and two early childhood centres for their planned projects aimed at improving nutritional environments. Two ‘cluster projects’... Read more

Waikato District Health Board installed Health TV in Waikato Hospital's Emergency Department and Orthopaedics waiting rooms yesterday.   Eventually another screen will go into Thames' Emergency... Read more

A new relationship has seen communications channels open between the local health sector and one of its hard-to-reach communities. Waikato District Health Board and Waikato Migrant Resource Centre are... Read more

Waikato Hospital medical staff accompanied a 32-year-old Hamilton man to the Navy Hospital's hyperbaric chamber on Auckland's North Shore this afternoon where he is likely to spend the next day. He remains... Read more

They're out there - second hospital open day a success They came back again. Former nurses and midwives are obviously still out there in the community and keen to come back to work if today's open day at Waikato Hospital is any indication. More than... Read more

Matthew Purchase, 22, the British agricultural student shot in the head during a rabbit hunt in the Waikato last year, has settled in well into a new rehabilitation centre in Dorset not far from his parents’... Read more

The situation at Waikato Hospital remains critical today prompting hospital management to set up an incident management team under the control of Hayley McConnell. The goal for the team is to reduce hospital occupancy to... Read more

They came back and now Waikato District Health Board wants more. Nurses and midwives are in high demand both nationally and internationally. While recruitment campaigns traditionally focussed on the... Read more

Waikato Hospital's fifth recipient of the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation was 79-year-old Tokoroa man Graeme Gubb. Mr Gubb, also known as Taff, has recovered extremely well from his operation and is due to... Read more

Occupancy at Waikato Hospital is critical today at 109 per cent by 2pm with no respite in sight. Sixteen patients are waiting for inpatient beds with only two projected to be available in the next six hours. In... Read more

Doctors at Waikato Hospital completed the last of five  transcatheter aortic valve implementations just over an hour ago. Dr Sanjeevan Pasupati, one of a few cardiologists in the world with experience in this procedure,... Read more

Ramona Johnson, the 79-year-old Tauranga woman who less than 24 hours ago was the first person to undergo revolutionary heart surgery in a public hospital is today recovering well. Mrs Johnson said she was... Read more

Sri Lankan-born doctor Sanjeevan Pasupati has been wowing the New Zealand medical world, carrying out first-ever procedures at Waikato Hospital. But his father and long-time Te Kuiti doctor Jega, will never forget that it... Read more