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CEO Update – Monday 25 May 2020

Monday 25 May 2020Waitaha Canterbury Pānui1 minute to read

In this edition of the CEO Update…

CEO David Meates shares the good news that planned surgeries are back up to about 82 percent of pre-COVID-19 capacity across the system. He looks at how Specialist Mental Health Services continued to provide care throughout the lockdown, and how our laboratories scaled up to meet the demand for testing early on in the pandemic.

This issue also looks at the work being done to support and grow more Canterbury DHB-led research for our community, shares the progress on implementation of the Maternity Early Warning System in several primary community maternity units, outlines activities to mark World Smokefree Day on 31 May, and much more.

You can read the Canterbury DHB CEO Update in two different formats:

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