Alliance Leadership Team’s acknowledged and celebrated Dr Ramon Pink's contribution to ALT this week.

First puff by 9 and smoking full-time by high school. But becoming a first time mum meant it wasn't just about Amy's health any longer.

With the silly season almost upon us, it’s timely to remember the useful tools of the trade that makes sharing and collaboration that bit easier for staff and patients over the festive season. The suite of electronic shared care plans – The Acute Plan, the Personalised Care Plan (PCP), and the Advance Care Plan – enables clinicians from different health services to collaborate and share important information that can improve patient care.

One of our health system’s ‘instrumental and inspiring’ volunteers has been recognised for his work supporting Canterbury Clinical Network’s (CCN) Better Breathing programme in a ceremony at Parliament.

The Integrated Respiratory Team was delighted to win recognition for its poster highlighting the work of the Better Breathing Groups at the South Island Respiratory Educators Forum (SIREF) this month.

A poster showcasing a project to tailor health delivery around patients’ goals won recognition among the health community at the Health Information New Zealand (HiNZ) conference in October.

Social connectedness is “totally paramount” to improve the health and wellbeing of our Maori whanau - that's the take away message from the first ever marae-based pulmonary rehab course.

Whānau Ora Kaiārahi (navigators) recently established inside Rural Canterbury PHO were officially welcomed at a mihi whakatau earlier this month.