Senior doctors and dentists at Health NZ public hospitals and health services plan to strike for 48 hours on Tuesday 23 September and Wednesday 24 September. Emergency departments will be open for emergencies only. GPs, after-hours and urgent care clinics, and other community health providers are not affected by the strike and will continue to operate as normal.
About the strike
Puāwai-Kai
Puāwai-Kai is a free 8-week healthy lifestyle and cooking programme for people in Ōtautahi Christchurch. It is for people who want to improve their health and wellbeing.
How the programme runs the 8-week courses
- Puāwai-Kai runs regular courses throughout the year.
- Courses are held during the day or evening in various places in Canterbury.
- Each weekly session lasts 2 hours.
- There are up to 16 people in a session.
- The first 3 weeks focus on how to make healthy lifestyle changes.
- The next 5 weeks focus on cooking — putting the ideas into action.
- Each session ends with sharing kaitogether.
What you will learn
- Enjoying a healthy relationship with food and having a routine. Week 1 includes breakfast foods to try.
- Filling up with whole foods and making water your friend. In week 2, you get to try curried kumara soup.
- Sleeping well, moving, taking care of yourself and eating mindfully. Week 3 focuses on making lunches, so you get to make and enjoy a salad bowl.
- How to read a recipe, knife skills and cooking baked potatoes and bean salad.
- Knowing what you eat, why home cooking is good for your health, and making pizza.
- Cooking eggs, making mini vegetable quiches and making easy coleslaw.
- How to turn a simple recipe into many different whānau meals, cooking with legumes and making nachos with salad.
- Cooking chickpea and vegetable curry with rice.
For more information, visit the Puāwai-Kai website.