On Friday 12 May we celebrate nurses across the globe as we remember the pioneer of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale, and her legacy.

A pilot collaboration has highlighted the power of working together to provide more responsive services that better engage families around childhood vaccination.  

This month Te Whatu Ora begins implementing targeted investment for primary care to help address under-funding for Māori and Pacific providers and enable them to continue delivering services more equitably for Māori and Pacific populations.

Pinnacle Midlands Health Network looks set to receive around $1.25m from $44 million funding boost announced Wednesday (April 26) to strengthen primary, community and rural care.

Pinnacle has sent an open letter to Paul Goulter and the New Zealand Nurses Organisation requesting stronger representation of primary care nurses working in general practice in Te Whatu Ora multi-employer collective agreement (MECA) bargaining negotiations.

A ‘passion project’ created and self-funded by Waikato clinical pharmacist Fiona McNabb to help people better understand how and why their medicines work won the New Zealand Hospital Pharmacists Association (NZHPA) Max Health award in late 2022.

We are excited to share that Pinnacle Midlands Health Network has been nominated as a finalist in the Human Resource Director (HRD) excellence awards in the Employer of Choice category.

In mid-November 2022 a group of Tairāwhiti clinicians gathered in a room at the local fishing club for a night of speed-dating – but not in the way you’re thinking.

The Pinnacle office will close to a skeleton staff on Friday 23 December and re-open on 9 January.

One Saturday morning, the server at Dallas Clinic in Morrinsville unexpectedly crashed, including the backup system. The practice lost all its data from the previous two days. The response from the clinic team and their IT provider was phenomenal.