Te Awakairangi Health Network

Anthea Fitzsimons

Winter Wellness Vaccination Event a Drawcard with the Hutt Valley Community

With winter comes an increase in seasonal illness and new variants circulating in the Hutt Valley. This puts pressure on our already overstretched primary and secondary care sectors and workforce – prevention and everyone taking personal responsibility for their health is key. A push for higher rates of COVID-19, flu and MRR vaccinations needs a multipronged …

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Healthy in the Hutt Event Showcases our Clinical Team

On Saturday 17 June, a bustling Healthy in the Hutt event was run at Walter Nash stadium by the Eastern Rotary.   The event brought together several providers from across the Hutt Valley to provide information to the local communities.  Two Te Awakairangi Health Network clinical team members attended the event to represent several of our …

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Outreach Nursing Changes over the Years: a nurse’s reflection on supporting vulnerable and complex patients in the Hutt Valley

When Trish Kerr turned to outreach nursing in the Hutt Valley nine years ago, decades after training and working as first an enrolled nurse and then registered nurse, she could not have anticipated how considerably more complex her role would become in that time. What started out as a three-month contract with Te Awakairangi Health …

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Access and Choice model up and running at Avalon Medical Centre

Avalon Medical Centre is the latest of 12 Hutt Valley general practices to have a full complement of Access and Choice team members on board. This relatively new partnership model of care enhances the traditional primary care offer for those patients whose mental health and general wellbeing needs are impacting on their wider health.  GPs can …

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