News from Te Wero
Labour MPs have banded together to give a boost to a local cancer charity by donating 20 percent of its Flight Against Cancer dinner and auction event sales to Wellington community groups. Read more »

News from Asthma Foundation
Charlie Temel had asthma off and on since he was about four years old. This included stays of up to five days in hospital and lots of trips to hospital in the middle of the night. A popular, outgoing and sporty Wellington boy, Charlie never let asthma hold him back. Just after his ninth birthday, Charlie suddenly stood up from what he was doing, said he couldn’t breathe and he collapsed. It was that quick. Read more »

Media release from David Choate
“Health Minister Tony Ryall has again failed to invest adequately in our nation’s health with a Budget that will see Capital and Coast District Health Board continue to struggle,” said David Choat, Capital and Coast DHB member. Read more »

Kapiti Independent report from Alan Tristram
One of the world’s top authorities on back and neck pain, New Zealand physiotherapist Robin McKenzie, has died at his home in Raumati on the Kapiti Coast. Read more »

Press Release – Hutt City Council
Hutt Valley’s main outfall pipeline (MOP) will be temporarily shut down from next week to allow an inspection to take place. The MOP takes treated wastewater from the Seaview treatment plant to the outfall at Pencarrow Head. Read more »

Press Release – Capital and Coast District Health Board
A partnership to deploy a single Clinical Information System (CIS) that will improve healthcare delivery across the Central Region’s six DHBs has been signed by Central Region Technical Advisory Services (TAS) Chairman Murray Georgel and Orion Health. Read more »

Wellington.Scoop
Free sore-throat drop-in clinics in Porirua are to be financed by the government as part of an increased spend to reduce rheumatic fever among children. Read more »

Press Release – Care Not Cuts
“New figures released by Ministry of Health show that Capital and Coast District Health Board has the worst access to primary health care of any of the major DHBs in the country,” said David Choat, Capital and Coast District Health Board member. “The figures show that underfunding is really impacting on service for people living in Wellington, Porirua and Kapiti.” Read more »

Press Release – Wellington Free Ambulance
A second ambulance bought by one of New Zealand’s biggest Lotto winning families is being blessed before taking to the streets in the Wairarapa this week. Read more »

Press Release – Capital and Coast District Health Board
In 2011 when Ciara Griffin celebrated her 4th birthday in Wellington Children’s Hospital, she became one of the many patients to receive a quilt made by Wellington Hospitals and Health Foundation volunteers.  Read more »

Press Release – Compass Health
Compass Health will this winter be using new technology to monitor the demand that influenza like illness is placing on general practices throughout its network in the lower North Island. Read more »

Press Release – Capital and Coast District Health Board
Health record summaries from General Practices will soon be immediately available to hospital clinicians as a new system for accessing primary care health records online is launched in Wellington, Porirua and the Kapiti Coast. Read more »

Press Release – Laughter Power

We are having the 1st NZ Laughter Yoga Conference on 28th – 30th June 2013 to be held on the Kapiti Coast at Emerald Glen Homestead. Read more »

by Celia Wade-Brown
Science has intrinsic importance to how we shape our decisions. At civic level it’s how we shape our urban design form so we don’t lay stormwater pipes where sea level rise will disable them prematurely … and how we assess the risk of death or injury against the other values of society. Read more »

Press Release – Ministry For Culture And Heritage
The Ministry for Culture and Heritage and the Viet Nam Health Trust are marking the 50th anniversary of the New Zealand surgical team’s arrival in South Vietnam to treat civilian casualties of war-related accident and injury. Read more »

Report from- Kapiti Speakers’ Corner by Alan Tristram
A group of concerned citizens is staging the first major protest at Kapiti’s new Speakers’ Corner in Paraparaumu next Saturday. Read more »

Press Release – Wellington City Council
Wellington is an environmental leader for cities in Australasia, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Australia-New Zealand Green City Index. Read more »

News from HBL
Government-owned Health Benefits Limited has shared with District Health Boards a proposal that could deliver more than $7 million a year in savings on linen and laundry services. Read more »