Friday 5: 06 May 2022

Kia ora koutou,

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday 5! Where we will celebrate all the wonderful on-going work at the NRHCC.

1. On Friday 29 April we said farewell to the Mount Wellington Vaccination Centre, the site opened on 14th April 2021 and to date has delivered the most doses in Auckland Metro of any of our vaccination centres with a total of 180,471 doses. Of the 180,471 doses 9,407 were to Māori whanau and 15,592 to Pacific Peoples. Ngā mihi nui ki a koutou katoa!

2. We also said haere ra to the Albany team who have been with the Vaccination programme since the 29th June 2021 and have delivered 81,744 doses and more recently have been supporting RATS distribution and have given out a total of 73,040 RATs. Thank you to all the kaimahi who have worked at the site over the past months

3. The work of the Highbrook Vaccination Centre, MRCH and PaRCH was celebrated this week in the Eastern Courier. Kerry Tari, MRCH Lead, spoke about the wholistic Kaupapa Māori model MRCH provides to address all the issues people may face when they’ve got COVID. That includes their personal health needs, and welfare and wellbeing services for them and their whanau. Similarly, Harriet Pauga, Pacific Operations Lead spoke about the end-to-end service for care of the Pacific community, helping arrange medical supplies, food, finances, and mental health support. Providing a service that supports the whole family is also key to the Pacific model.

5. This week NRHCC offered the flu vaccination free to all NRHCC staff and contractors, our amazing Vaccinators Carol and Liz administered a total of 110 immunisations. A reminder that the final flu vaccination clinic will be next Tuesday 3rd May from 10am – 12pm at Bledisloe House. Protect your whanau, yourself, and your community by walking into the Totara Board room on level 8 to get your immunisation!

4. More Kiwis are being made eligible for free flu vaccinations and Dr Anthony Jordan has been doing media this week to launch the NRHCC flu campaign and out Māori and Pacific vaccination centres and events will now be offering the free flu vaccination to the eligible population.

5. The NRHCC Quality & Risk managers have now started and joined the team! The team will be looking after incident management and quality & risks across all programmes of work. Some of you may recognise these familiar faces around the office. Please say kia ora to our newly established team!

And finally, haere ra to Andrea Bond and Alice McVeigh will be leaving the NRHCC today. Thank you for all your mahi during your time at the NRHCC, we wish you all the best in your future endeavours!

Reminder: For any teams with new starters or colleagues who aren’t on the existing distribution list please email these through to SRogers@adhb.govt.nz to be added to the Friday 5 distribution list.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Ngā mihi,

The PMO Team

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