The Star: October 27, 2016
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Thursday <strong>October</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2016</strong> 7<br />
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Plan needed to<br />
fix suicide rate<br />
• By Gabrielle Stuart<br />
THE HEALTH board is looking<br />
at how it can improve its mental<br />
health services after Canterbury<br />
saw the most suicides ever<br />
recorded in New Zealand.<br />
Seventy-eight Cantabrians<br />
committed suicide in the last<br />
year, according to provisional<br />
statistics released by the chief<br />
coroner last year.<br />
Health board member Andrew<br />
Dickerson said the high suicide<br />
rate was something the CDHB<br />
had predicted after the earthquakes,<br />
yet the funding per person<br />
for mental health services in<br />
Canterbury had remained lower<br />
than the national average.<br />
“While many of us have been<br />
able to move forward, there are<br />
some who have been left behind.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y are becoming a smaller<br />
minority and their despair is<br />
increasing,” he said.<br />
He wanted to see a report on<br />
the issue prepared, so the health<br />
board could look at what it might<br />
be able to do.<br />
Speaking to a parliamentary<br />
committee in February, CDHB<br />
chief executive David Meates<br />
warned the mental health system<br />
was at risk of disaster.<br />
He said there had been high<br />
numbers of middle-aged women<br />
struggling with anxiety or depression.<br />
<strong>The</strong> coroner’s statistics reported<br />
a significant increase in the number<br />
of women who committed<br />
suicide.<br />
Canterbury chief medical<br />
officer Sue Nightingale told the<br />
health board at its meeting last<br />
week that the coroner’s figures<br />
were only provisional, as the<br />
cause of death in some cases had<br />
not been decided.<br />
She said that meant the suicide<br />
rate could improve, but it could<br />
potentially get worse.<br />
AT THE MOVIES: This is what the central city’s new HOTYS EntX multiplex cinema<br />
will look like when it is completed in 2018. <strong>The</strong> complex will be built on the corner of<br />
Colombo, Lichfield and Tuam Sts. <strong>The</strong> three-level complex will include a dining precinct<br />
on the ground level with 16 food outlets. It will have seven movie theatres, including<br />
two HOYTS Xtremescreen auditoriums and two HOYTS LUX auditoriums, and will<br />
also feature state-of-the-art Dolby Atmos sound and powered recliners. <strong>The</strong> former<br />
central city HOYTS, on Moorhouse Ave, was demolished following the February 2011<br />
earthquake.<br />
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BRAND NEW VILLAGE<br />
CENTRE AND CARE<br />
CENTRE – NOW OPEN!<br />
Welcome to our new village centre<br />
and care centre.<br />
We’re excited to let you know that we recently opened<br />
our village centre! <strong>The</strong> village centre is the heart of<br />
our Summerset community with residents already<br />
enjoying the fantastic facilities, like the café, lounges,<br />
indoor swimming pool and spa, library, exercise<br />
room and outdoor bowling green. <strong>The</strong> village centre<br />
is also home to our care centre, which offers a range<br />
of care options up to rest home and hospital-level care.<br />
For more information about our village, please call<br />
Anne on 03 741 0872.<br />
Come and see why<br />
we love the life at Summerset<br />
Summerset<br />
at Wigram<br />
135 Awatea Road, Christchurch<br />
Contact Anne Walker on 03 741 0872<br />
wigram.sales@summerset.co.nz<br />
Love the life<br />
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