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Thursday <strong>October</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2016</strong> 7<br />

News<br />

For more local news, watch<br />

CTV News with Jared McCulloch<br />

Mon-Fri bulletins: 5.30pm, repeats at 7pm and 9.30pm<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 />

Personal choices<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 />

WORK6849

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