Rheumatology Unit

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Servicing the wider Waikato population, we are largely an outpatient service based primarily at Waikato Hospital with regular outreach clinics in Thames, Tokoroa and Te Kuiti.

We cover the broad range of musculoskeletal disease with some sub-specialty clinics, e.g. scleroderma, metabolic bone disease and a visiting paediatric rheumatology clinic. Our unit is actively involved in industry-based research.

Who we are:

The unit has three part-time rheumatologists with the recruitment of a further full-time position currently in progress.

We have one advanced registrar trainee position and one rotating registrar position shared with endocrinology.

Support comes from two clinical nurse specialist positions, a research nurse and other allied health staff.

We provide:

• Exposure to a wide range of rheumatic disease in clinic with some in-patient consultation.
  
  
• There is a weekly radiology meeting and a monthly regional rheumatology meeting, in addition to the medical unit programme.

Rheumatology service back to full capacity - media release 19 April 2010