Thursday 4: 14 April 2022

Kia ora koutou,

Welcome to this week’s special edition of the Thursday 4! Where we will celebrate all the wonderful on-going work at the NRHCC.

1.On Saturday 9th April, the Wellsford Community held a Tamariki Time joint health event in supported by Plunket, Te Ha Oranga and WDHB Dental & Hearing checks. Of the whanau vaccinated nearly three quarters of people were Māori and the Te Ha Oranga were also offering flu immunisations to tamariki and whanau.

2. After closing the international border for two years, on Wednesday 13th April, New Zealand finally welcomed back Australian citizens and permanent residents, touching down in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. More than 3,000 Aussies were expected to arrive following the announcement of quarantine free travel.

3. As of today, the National Booking System now has the ability to book 16- & 17-year-olds in for their Vaccination and the added functionality to make group bookings. Thank you to the teams involved for getting

4. Thursday 14th April we held the first NRHCC Easter Scavenger hunt! Ka pai to all teams involved and we hope you all had fun.

Frist place went to our comms team!

And an honourable Second place to Workforce

And third went to the Vaccination team

And our very creative Planning and Intel team won the best bunny competition with this very creative shadow bunny!

Please click the link for photos captured on the day! Feel free to add in any others taken, any issues accessing the folder please let us know!

And finally, haere ra to Kitty McQuilkin and Liesl Kenrick who will be leaving 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 good weekend everyone.

Ngā mihi,

The PMO Team