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Changes to wound swab reporting

The microbiology lab at Awanui Hawkes Bay is planning to change the way wound swab cultures are reported. The change will come into effect on 1 April, 2025. This change has already been made in the greater Wellington and Taranaki regions and has proven to be a great success. Find full details here. What is […]

Pertussis (Whooping cough) update

Please see the following Public Health alert from Health New Zealand / Te Whatu Ora regarding Pertussis in Te Matau a Māui, Hawke’s Bay. Read full details here.

Newsletter: October 2024

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Patient results delivery improvement

Awanui Labs is improving the delivery of patient results directly to referrers using Medtech Evolution across New Zealand. From 30 September, referrers who are using the Medtech Evolution system, can electronically receive their patient’s test results including blood, urine, histology and cytology results in real time as they are reported by the laboratories. Awanui Labs […]

Merging duplicate requests

Awanui Labs has recently made an operational change to how we handle duplicate test requests and what this change may mean for you. Awanui Labs experiences a high degree of multiple requests for the same patients, a significant number of these requests are from different doctors within the same clinic. Currently when the patient presents […]

Referrer update: July 2024

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Diagnosis of Coeliac Disease

Coeliac disease is an immunological intestinal reaction to gluten in cereal causing the cells lining the small, intestine bowel to become damaged and inflamed. This is often found in people who are genetically predisposed to this condition. Coeliac disease in New ZealandAccording to international research, approximately 100,000 people across New Zealand have some form of coeliac […]