5 Messages to
Keep Your
Family Healthy
By Communicable Disease Nurse,
Toi Te Ora Public Health Service,
Lindsay Lowe.
Toi Te Ora – the Bay of Plenty
District health Board’s Public
Health Service is promoting the
5 Messages to Keep Your Family
Healthy resources during 2016.
The aims of the 5 Messages are to:
• simplify key health messages in the community
• reduce hospitalisations for preventable diseases
such as rheumatic fever and skin infections
• to promote the 0800 HealthLine number to help
improve access to affordable health advice.
For more information and resources for each
message go to: www.ttophs.govt.nz/keep_your_
family_healthy
Advance Care Planning
By Quality & Patient Safety Coordinator, Cheryl
Shearer.
It is never too soon to think about it, to talk
about it and to put it into action.
For a period of just over three weeks