More than 70 years after learning her first words in English, Ailsa Stewart is learning te reo Māori.

The outstanding efforts of those who work in Whanganui’s health and disability sector were recognised in some style at an awards night on Friday.[Sept 6]

The month of September is a reminder to pregnant women, their whānau and support network that drinking while hapu contributes to life-long problems for tamariki. Drinking while pregnant also increases the chance of premature birth, or losing your baby through miscarriage or stillbirth.

A woman’s best protection against developing cervical cancer is to have regular cervical screening.

A group of women living at Jane Winstone Retirement Village have used their ‘knit and natter’ sessions to knit dolls for Whanganui Hospital’s children’s ward.

Tickets are on sale for Te Tohu Rangatira Whanganui District Health Quality Awards, which will be held on Friday 6 September at the Whanganui Racecourse.

Whanganui Hospital is running a competition to select photographs to brighten up its main corridor.

Taihape Childcare Centre (TCC) has gone water only - a move Whanganui District Health Board public health nurse Narisa Sargison says is recognition of the staff and children’s commitment to ridding their centre of sugary drinks.

B4 school checks are a vital health and developmental assessment available to all Kiwi four-year-olds.

Māori Television cameras were at Marton’s Māori health provider Te Kotuku Hauora where staff had organised for Whanganui District Health Board bowel screening project manager Ben McMenamin to give a...

A growing commitment to rural health is reflected in Whanganui District Health Board’s decision to take its August board meeting to Taihape.

With a lineage stretching back 175 years, Whanganui Hospital was a must to be part of Whanganui’s upcoming Heritage Month, and it will host an event on Saturday, August 10.

If you or someone you know works in health and wellbeing in the Whanganui region, please encourage them to enter the Whanganui District Health Quality Awards Te Tohu Rangatira 2019.

From Monday July 8 there will be some changes in the Emergency Department reception area at Whanganui Hospital.

Health minister David Clark has given a big tick to a number of health initiatives in Whanganui.

Whanganui District Health Board's laboratory testing is no longer sex-specific, removing barriers to access for the transgender community.

Getting fit for surgery has been a labour of love for David Lamese.

Save money, have more energy and feel healthier - just a few of the reasons to try Dry July this month.

An emphasis on a pro-active approach to complaints by Whanganui District Health Board has resulted in its lowest ever rate of complaints made to the Health & Disability Commissioner.

The winter months put extra demand on health services, and the Whanganui District Health Board says the best way to combat this is for people to take care of themselves and keep themselves healthy.

Revived and revamped, the Whanganui District Health Quality Awards are back.

An impressive artwork has pride of place in Whanganui Hospital's main corridor after an unveiling ceremony on Friday 17 May.

With school ball season around the corner, Whanganui District Health Board (WDHB) is urging teens, their parents and the wider community to show responsibility with alcohol at before and after parties.

'Protected together' is the focus for this year's national Immunisation Week, from 29 April to 5 May 2019. This theme is being supported by Whanganui District Health Board (WDHB), Whanganui Regional Health Network and general practices, through the encouragement of high immunisation uptake, to protect everyone in our community.

Preparations by Whanganui District Health Board (WDHB) for planned strike action are ongoing and well in hand.

Resident Medical Officers (RMOs) have provided plenty of positive feedback about working here in the latest Hospital Review, just published by the Resident Doctors' Association.

Keep well this winter - get a flu shot now. That's the message from Whanganui District Health Board (WDHB) as summer slips away and cooler autumn weather approaches.

Staff at Whanganui District Health Board took time out from their busy schedule on Wednesday [March 27] to remember the victims of the Christchurch attack with a memorial service.

Tests carried out by Horizons Regional Council have shown very high levels of potentially toxic blue-green algae at Lake Wiritoa near Whanganui.