Hāpainga backs
smokefree
Whakatāne
football team
By Teneille Ogilvy, Oral Health Promoter, Community
Health 4 Kids.
The Whakatāne Town AFC Women’s
2017 squad who play in the Bay Wide one
competition are sporting new hoodies thanks to
sponsorship from Eastern Bay Primary Health
Alliance Hāpainga – Quit Smoking Service.
The team is proudly smokefree including a couple of players
who’ve quit smoking recently with the aid of electronic cigarettes.
These players have noticed an increase in their performance as a
result of quitting.
Our team ranges in age from 14 years to 36 years old, some of us
are still at school and some of us are mums. We are all passionate
about football and support the importance of our sports fields
being smokefree especially for our junior players coming through.
Teneille Ogilvy, Oral Health Promoter and Ashley Corrick, Physiotherapist sporting
their new football hoodies sponsored by Hᾱpainga – Quit Smoking Service.
Whakatāne Town AFC vision is to provide a quality environment
making our club a source of pride in the Whakatāne community.
Tauranga Nurse Wins National Award
Tauranga Hospital Registered
Nurse Leigh Youngman has
won a national award for
emerging leaders.
She received the trophy from HQSC
General Manager Karen Orsborn, in
front of an audience including her mum
and dad, Bay of Plenty District Health
Board (BOPDHB) Board Chair Sally
Webb and BOPDHB Chief Executive
Helen Mason.
Leigh picked up the Health Quality &
Safety Commission’s Open for Leadership
award earlier this month for a patient-
focussed quality improvement initiative.
“We feel extremely lucky to have Leigh
on our team. The impact she is having
on improving services for our community
is admirable. It was lovely to hear Leigh
acknowledge the support she has
received from her team in achieving this
award. We are continuously looking for
ways to improve services, and it’s great
to have the opportunity to celebrate that
today.”
of Plenty District Health Board
(BOPDHB) Board Chair Sally Webb and
BOPDHB Chief Executive Helen Mason.
The initiative allows patients with a
fractured ankle, who meet specific criteria,
to return home while they wait for their
operation, rather than spend that time in
hospital.
“Because I work in orthopaedics I
wanted to do something specific to that,”
says Leigh. “One of the areas I saw for
improvement was allowing patients to go
home prior to surgery. Those with ankle
fractures usually spend 5-7 days in a
ward because their swelling means they
have to wait to be operated on.
“I talked to patients who were in the ward while I was developing
this, and a large majority said they’d prefer to be at home.”
Leigh developed the programme while completing her Masters in
Nursing with Honours.
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“We feel extremely lucky to have
Leigh on our team. The impact she is
having on improving services for our
community is admirable. It was lovely to
hear Leigh acknowledge the support she has received from her
team in achieving this award. We are continuously looking for
ways to improve services, and it’s great to have the opportunity
to celebrate that today.”
HQSC General Manager Karen Orsborn presents
Registered Nurse Leigh Youngman with the Open for
Leadership award.