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	History Of Plunket
		The Plunket Movement was born in Dunedin on 14 May 1907.
		The impetus for a society that would 'help the mothers and save the babies' came from Dr Frederick Truby King, the Superintendent of a mental hospital who was convinced he had the answer to society's ills.
		Plunket continued to forge new innovative programmes in response to needs of young families, establishing the national car seat rental scheme programme, piloted in 1981 and a free telephone phone advice line from 1994, as well as becoming one of New Zealand's leading providers of Parents As First Teachers.
	www.plunket.org.nz /History_Of_Plunket_Page.htm (649 words)

	A Voice for Mothers - Auckland University Press
		The society was founded in 1907 as part of a Western-world infant welfare movement that aimed to improve the survival and fitness of future citizens in the interests of 'national efficiency'.
		Plunket was usually given the credit for New Zealand's low infant death rates during the first half of the twentieth century, a source of great national pride.
		Paediatrician Dr Helen Deem, Plunket's Medical Adviser from 1939 to 1955, stated after a decade in the job that she had remained only because she was convinced that the society was 'doing a really worthwhile job for the mothers and babies of the country'.
	www.auckland.ac.nz /uoa/aup/book/a-voice-for-mothers.cfm (3373 words)

	Register of Historic Places
		In October 1941 the Truby King Mausoleum was unveiled by the Governor-General Sir Cyril Newall as a national monument to the founder of the Plunket Society, Frederic Truby King [1838-1938].
		Plunket clinics and 'Karitane' hospitals were opened throughout the country and by 1930, 65 per cent of all non-Maori infants were under the care of trained Plunket nurses.
		The memorial, now known as the Truby King Mausoleum, was sold by the Plunket Society to the Wellington City Council in 1990, together with approximately two hectares of the original property.
	www.historic.org.nz /Register/ListingDetail.asp?RID=4430 (795 words)

	The Urinals of Plunket Rooms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Plunket Rooms were established to "educate mothers in the proper feeding and care of their babies".
		"The New Zealand Society for the Preservation of the Health of Women and Children, later the Royal New Zeland Society for the Health of Women and Children, later the Royal New Zealand Plunket Society.
		The Society aimed to educate mothers in the proper feeding and care of their babies through the establishment of Plunket rooms throughout the country staffed by specially trained nurses, and also by the establishment of Karitane Hospitals, specifically for the care of mothers and babies.
	www.urinal.net /plunket_rooms (162 words)

	Plunket Society (Royal New Zealand) - Everybody - Health Information for New Zealanders
		Plunket's role is to support the health and well being of families/whanau and young children.
		Plunket's clinical and health promotion services, parent education, community support programmes and advocacy provide an integrated package of care and support which enables families to meet their own health needs.
		Plunket is a community based organisation employing experienced, qualified staff who work in partnership with volunteers to provide family focused care.
	www.everybody.co.nz /page-cf24bcbd-3976-4af3-8544-1dff9f94d4f4.aspx (857 words)

	Beehive.govt.nz - New Plunket contract provides increased funding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Plunket will receive an increase of $2.8 million on its baseline funding in 2003/04 and a further $2.8m in 2004/05, under a new two-year contract reached with the Ministry.
		Plunket will continue to provide care for children of all needs, while putting additional resources and services into high-needs groups to increase their number of visits," says Ms King.
		Ms King says that more than 47,000 children are enrolled with Plunket, and the new agreement will allow all children who enrol with Plunket to receive the visits they are entitled to, as well as additional visits to high-needs families and first time parents across all socio-economic groups.
	www.beehive.govt.nz /ViewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=18252 (345 words)

	Puke Ariki - Taranaki Stories - Maria Turner - Kingpin of Modern Plunket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Her vision of a Plunket Nurse very quickly evaporated to be replaced with an entirely superior picture.
		Plunket will continue to employ 'Today's kind of woman,' and use a collaborative approach to deliver good mothering help and skills, adapting to suit current needs.
		Plunket has always been about supporting families, and even today, nearly a century after it began that support is still firmly in place.
	www.pukeariki.com /en/stories/scienceandmedicine/modplunket.asp (1056 words)

	Puke Ariki - Taranaki Stories - Oh to be a Plunket nurse - 'To help the mothers and save the babies' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		One Plunket nurse held her clinic in a hotel bar on Sunday, while another used a bus.
		A Plunket nurse has always pulled on pride and professionalism with her uniform, though her clothes have been adapted over time.
		Annual Reports for the New Plymouth Branch and sub-branches of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children (Plunket Society), personal reminiscence by Grace Petersen and a draft copy of a newpaper article written on her retirement in 1940.
	www.pukeariki.com /en/stories/scienceandmedicine/plunketnurse.asp (710 words)

	Beehive.govt.nz - Valuing connection
		Which is where the Royal New Zealand Plunket Society has been the backstop, the source of wisdom and a lifesaver for many New Zealand families.
		The work of Plunket in fostering strong bonds between parent and child lays the foundation for the future relationships that children form outside the family circle; the connections they make as adults.
		Plunket is heavily involved in encouraging parents to develop social networks.
	www.beehive.govt.nz /ViewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=17166 (2322 words)

	Scoop: Plunket Seeks Meeting With PM On Plunket Line
		Plunket bosses are so mad that they have announced that they are seeking an urgent meeting with Prime Minister Helen Clark, and a letter requesting a meeting is already on its way.
		Plunket officials want to ask whether it is the Governments intention to undermine Plunket.
		Plunket President Kaye Crowther said, "The Government is placing key parts of the care of our children in the hands of an off-shore multi-national who the Ministry of Health has acknowledged has little or no experience in well child services".
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL0604/S00119.htm (992 words)

	news24seven.tv: Society & Culture
		Plunket has a long history of, to use their own words, "community owned, and community driven" care, which has relieved the minds and the ailments of thousands of Kiwi families.
		Plunket is a New Zealand icon, a triumph of civil society, of people reaching out to other people.
		Plunket is petitioning the government for more money, and it has the support of several politicians and many in the public.
	briefingroom.typepad.com /news24seventv/society_culture (3565 words)

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		From welfare state to the civil society: the constitutive use of accounting in the reform of the NZ public sector INTRODUCTION "How can we explain the continued appeal of collectivism?" asks the author of a book published by the New Zealand Business Roundtable (Green, 1996, p.31) Five rationales for collectivism are described and rebutted.
		It is this lifeworld that legitimises society (in the sense of common shared values) and forms the background for the formation of self in relation to society.
		The experience of Plunket reflects that of many agencies that were joint state \voluntary organisations and now must try to run as businesses contracting with RHAs, increasingly perceived as an instrument to contain costs.
	les.man.ac.uk /IPA97/papers/lawren7.txt (8774 words)

	sponsors
		The Plunket National Spelling Bee 2006 is grateful for the support of all the individuals and organisations who have generously donated their time, expertise and resources to ensure the success of this event.
		Plunket is in touch with all local needs ranging from Maori, Pakeha and Pacific people, while also catering for those in all corners of New Zealand.
		Plunket programmes aim to support families with young children by providing appropriate clinical and support programmes, educational activities and so on.
	www.spellingbee.co.nz /sponsors/sponsors.html (833 words)

	DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
		Although she was not a certificated Plunket nurse she was considered to be the pioneer of the movement.
		She remained in service to the Plunket Society until her formal resignation in 1930, but her main involvement spanned a brief period of four years.
		Her motto was 'Once a Plunket Nurse always a Plunket Nurse,' and this was exemplified when, at the age of 78, she responded to an appeal from Dunedin Hospital to care for a sick baby.
	www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=3M21&related=false (868 words)

	NZAVS - Mobilise! 44, Page 5
		Dr Ritchie used to have no problems with vaccinating children but one day he was asked to give a talk on the problems associated with vaccinating and did some rreading and discovered the problems with the vaccination "dogma".
		The privacy Act means that parents can request Plunket not to put their child on their distributed register of unvaccinated children.
		One member of the audience commented that plunket had tricked her by asking her to take part in a minor survey.
	www.nzavs.org.nz /mobilise/44/5.html (610 words)

	Plunket should tell new parents about all nappy options - Green Party
		“The Royal New Zealand Plunket Society is a great organisation that has been entrusted by many generations of New Zealanders with ensuring all babies and preschoolers are thriving and healthy and I fully endorse and support their work and efforts,” said Mr Ward, a father of three and the Greens’ Waste-free Spokesperson.
		Mr Ward’s call follows Plunket turning down a request from The Nappy Network, a group of parents who promote and use modern cloth nappies, that the Society’s educational material be modernised to include information about the latest reusable nappies.
		Plunket recommends about eight nappy changes a day on an infant, their sponsor’s product cost about 45 cents a nappy, so that equals over $25 a week.
	www.greens.org.nz /searchdocs/PR8242.html (531 words)

	MEDICAL SERVICES - HUMANE SOCIETIES - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
		The principal aim of the Society, the education of mothers in the proper feeding and care of their babies, was to be achieved by the establishment of Plunket Rooms throughout the country, staffed by nurses specially trained in all aspects of baby welfare, where advice and assistance were to be made freely available.
		While the Society's general activities were from the first guided and controlled by a central Council, local branches were formed and given a large degree of autonomy and responsibility, acting under the general advice and guidance of the central Council.
		The activities of the Plunket Society have been largely instrumental in reducing the infant deaths that occur between the second and twelfth months inclusive from a rate of about 40 per 1,000 live births in 1908 to the present low figure of less than seven per 1,000.
	www.teara.govt.nz /1966/M/MedicalServices/HumaneSocieties/en (2169 words)

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		The medal itself was donated by Lord Plunket in 1905.
		Plunket was an interesting Governor (as it was then), he was a British appointee but actually gave a damn (much like Bledisloe) about New Zealand, rather than treating his appointment as a career move:
		Lord Plunket possessed a strong conception of his office as Head of the New Zealand State*, and in the course of his multifarious duties penetrated to almost every corner of the Dominion.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=4117205&postID=112580603329956194 (295 words)

	GM Resource & Referral Directory
		Keynote statement: The Royal New Zealand Plunket Society provides a well child health service designed to ensure that New Zealand children are among the healthiest in the world.
		There are eighteen Plunket Society area offices around the country plus Plunketline, a telephone helpline for parents.
		Plunket Kaiawhina and Plunket Community Karitane are family support staff who go into homes to give additional support and information when it is needed.
	www.gmd.net.nz /index.lasso?entrant=85 (380 words)

	Child health (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		The Plunket Society provides free care for mothers and babies.
		You can either arrange for home visits by a Plunket nurse, or visit one of the many clinics located throughout the country.
		Plunket also has a car seat rental service which provides safety restraints for babies and small children.
	www.immigration.govt.nz /migrant/settlementpack/Health/MotherAndChildCare/ChildHealth.htm (171 words)

	Incorporated Society Dissolution Notices
		Societies Act 1908) declare a society dissolved if he is satisfied that a society is no longer carrying on its operations.
		The Registrar is satisfied that these societies are no longer carrying on operations and is taking steps to declare them dissolved from the register of Incorporated Societies.
		Objections to the removal of any of the societies will need to be sent to the Registrar by 29 April 2005 to avoid dissolution.
	www.societies.govt.nz /cad-docs/S/SOC_Dissolutions_12Apr05.html (285 words)

	The VUW Graduate School of Nursing and Midwifery - About Us
		The role of the Plunket orientation programme is to prepare new Plunket Nurses for autonomous practice within the complexity of community based nursing.
		Orientation of and support for newly appointed Plunket Nurses to the nursing specialty of Well Child Health in the community are important issues for Plunket.
		This study has established what new Plunket Nurses feel their orientation needs are and recommendations to Plunket Management Team have been made based on the results.
	www.vuw.ac.nz /nsemid/research/grad-abs/o-z/pearce-k.aspx (344 words)

	Plunket To Transform Financial Management With Navision
		Plunket's Wellington-based financial team manages the information for the organisation which includes the National Society as well as 124 legal entities and 629 branches.
		Plunket has been able to replace its entire existing system with Navision - a single fully integrated solution that connects everyone in the organisation to who they need to be connected to,” says Guy.
		Plunket programmes support families with young children by providing appropriate clinical and support services, educational activities and so on.
	www.microsoft.com /nz/presscentre/articles/2005/apr_04_plunket.mspx (802 words)

	The VUW Graduate School of Nursing and Midwifery - About Us
		Plunket nursing owes its origins to the mind of one of our country's most famous early medical men, Frederic Truby King.
		To provide a context for this the paper explores the development of a new nursing specialty, Plunket nursing, that became part of the backbone of a fledgling health system and the New Zealand nursing profession.
		Nurses were drawn to the work of the newly created Plunket Society.
	www.vuw.ac.nz /nsemid/research/grad-abs/a-h/andrews-c.aspx (226 words)

	The rise and fall of circumcision in New Zealand
		One surveyed 41 doctors born between 1914 and 1934 and found three out of five were themselves circumcised, nearly twice the British average, perhaps reflecting their class or class-aspirations, (and perhaps affecting their view of the practice).
		The Society for Promoting the Health of Women and Children, nicknamed after its first patron, was founded by Dr Frederic Truby King (later Sir Truby) in 1907 to teach babycare and promote maternal and infant heath.
		Once a significant number of men were circumcised, circumcision for conformity's sake came into play in our very conformist society, and in 1977, when Shannon, Horwood and Fergusson found the rate of circumcision in Christchurch had fallen to 24 per cent (graph point 5), a circumcised father was the biggest single risk factor.
	www.circumstitions.com /NZ.html (2771 words)

	In The Line of Duty - Blotter Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		The Plunket Society cites an overseas study stating 35 per cent of boys and 28 per cent of girls who have been sexually abused have been cruel to animals.
		Conversely, she said, teaching children to love and care for animals was a valuable way to teach young people how to care for other human beings, including their own future children.
		Unitec lecturer Virginia Williams - also cited in the Plunket paper - said vets were sensitive about intervening in these cases because they did not want to scare people away from bringing their damaged animals in for treatment.
	www.lineofduty.com /blotterstory.asp?StoryID=77534 (468 words)

	International early language initiatives
		The Plunket Society is a New Zealand provider of child and family health services.
		Plunket programmes aim to support families with young children by providing appropriate clinical and support programmes and educational activities.
		Reach Out and Read is a US programme, established in 1989, that builds on the special relationship between doctors and the parents of young children to support children's language and literacy development.
	www.literacytrust.org.uk /talktoyourbaby/Initiativesinternational.html (1177 words)

	Top Stories from NZCity
		The move to change a controversial smacking law has the support of the Plunket Society.
		Hundreds of Plunket volunteers pledged their support at its bi-annual conference in Palmerston North.
		Society president Kaye Crowther says we must make sure there are no laws in this country that protect people from belting their kids.
	home.nzcity.co.nz /news?id=51980&c=w (102 words)

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