Ashburton Hospital

Name :

Ashburton Hospital

Address  :

Elizabeth Street
Private Bag 801

Town  :

Ashburton

State  :

Canterbury

Country  :

NEW ZEALAND

Post Code:

7740

Phone  :

03 308 4149

Fax  :

64 3 307 8473

Web URL  :


Description

Ashburton Hospital is the centre from which a comprehensive range of Inpatient Daypatient Outpatient and Community based services are delivered from

Ashburton Hospital has 74 beds and annually admits around 5000 patients cares for 2600 day patients and 15000 patients attend outpatient Appointments The Operating Theatre at Ashburton carries out 1500 operative procedures each year on a day and short stay basis
Milestone for hospital ICU team

Clinicians at Hawkes Bay Hospitals Intensive Care Unit ICU are among the first in the country to have eliminated hospitalacquired intensive care bloodstream infections in their patients for a year Intensive Care specialist Ross Freebairn said a year without a patient having a bloodstream infection associated with a catheter in a large vein was a... Read More

Concerns in UK over feeding tube diet

Dieticians have warned of the dangers of losing weight with a starvation diet available in Britain for the first time The British Dietetic Association BDA says there are huge risks to the diet in which people are given just 130 calories a day through a feeding tube that goes up their nose and down to their stomach The 10day regime forces the ... Read More