Women's Health Plans Advancing - Health - redOrbit: "Plans for a regional women's health service spanning Whanganui and MidCentral Health came a step closer yesterday.
The MidCentral District Health Board's hospital advisory committee voted on a raft of recommendations to build the service, including recruitment of a regional clinical director and project manager to make it happen.
The plans have been developing since late 2006 when the first staffing crisis at Whanganui Hospital saw birthing mothers transferred to Palmerston North for acute care.
While driven by what MidCentral Health lead obstetrician and gynaecologist Digby Ngan Kee describes as a dire shortage of specialists, he says the combined service handling up to 3000 births a year would be big enough to attract new staff."
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
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