Supercare4u.com provides medical transfers to numerous Rest Homes in Auckland. This industry is introducing a new clinical assessment ,computer-based programme, known as InterRAI, which is being introduced by the Health Minister and has insisted that all providers would start using it in June 2014, with it becoming mandatory by July 2015. Supercare4u.com feels that this…
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Disability V Business
(reprint) The new green If chief executives won medals, Justin King of J. Sainsbury, a British supermarket chain, would be sporting a gold in the marketing marathon for his prescient decision to concentrate sponsorship on the Paralympics rather than the glitzier Olympics. The plaudits he and other companies have received for backing what was previously…
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Cutbacks for Ambulance Service
The elite "Order of St Johns" received $223 million in the 2010-2011 financial year, 80 per cent of it coming from the Ministry of Health and ACC. Their annual operating loss has risen from $8 million five years ago, with an increasing number of elderly people needing transport producing a 4.5 per cent rise in…
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Challenges for Disabled in Christchurch
Christchurch is always in the news but a bigger problem now is the Growing isolation, a lack of suitable accommodation and difficulty for disabled citizens to just get around. Those with physical disabilities face an array of challenges in a post-earthquake Christchurch. The February 2011 quake took away much of the independence they were used…
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