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Speaker 1: Catherine is indeed gearing up well to host the first

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Speaker 1: Defense and Mayoral Ball, which is going to be raising

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Speaker 1: money for a therapy dog at the Catherine Hospital. It

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Speaker 1: was an idea that came from staff working at the

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Speaker 1: Emergency department. And here to tell us a little bit

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Speaker 1: more is Renee Daniel, the general manager and Director of

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Speaker 1: Nursing and Midwiffrey at the Catherine Hospital. Good morning to you, Renee.

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Speaker 2: Hi Katie, how are you going?

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Speaker 3: You're really good, lovely to have you on the show.

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Speaker 2: Thank having me Renee.

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Speaker 1: Firstly, what kind of dog are you hoping to secure

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Speaker 1: for staff at the hospital.

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Speaker 2: Well, we've been in discussion with Paus Darwin, who are

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Speaker 2: actually going to be supplying the therapy dog to us,

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Speaker 2: and basically the dog will be required to have low

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Speaker 2: allergenic care. So they were thinking of a standard poodle

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Speaker 2: breed or something that's a larger dog with the hair

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Speaker 2: that doesn't shed basically, so that part isn't confirmed yet,

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Speaker 2: but that there are a few different options.

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Speaker 3: Now, why was.

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Speaker 1: This something that you know that the staff and that

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Speaker 1: yourself were keen to do.

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Speaker 2: Look, the idea came from our emergency department team. There

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Speaker 2: is a large volume of research about the benefits both

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Speaker 2: physical and emotional for patients and staff from therapy dogs.

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Speaker 2: They have been proven to lower blood pressure, heart rate,

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Speaker 2: and pain in patients. There's been some clinically significant changes

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Speaker 2: in pain presentations in eed patients after a ten minute

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Speaker 2: therapy dog visit. There's also evidence around it improving cardiovascular

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Speaker 2: health YEP, helping reduce anxiety and depression, and just an

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Speaker 2: overall improvement of well being the both patients and staff.

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Speaker 1: Oh look, I am a massive lover of dogs. Anybody

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Speaker 1: who listens to this show knows that nothing makes me

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Speaker 1: happier than when the police dogs come in for a visit.

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Speaker 1: They are just beautiful and I am absolutely blown away

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Speaker 1: by the way that they're trained to be able to,

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Speaker 1: you know, to catch criminals and people doing the wrong thing.

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Speaker 1: But then the way that they're still able to interact

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Speaker 3: Every day in the community.

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Speaker 1: Then when you talk about therapy dogs and the way

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Speaker 1: that they can really help people, whether it's staff or patients,

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Speaker 1: I reckon it would have a phenomenal impact at the

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Speaker 1: hospital there definitely YEP. Now you know, when it comes

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Speaker 1: to your staff, how do you reckon that the therapy

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Speaker 1: dog will benefit the staff.

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Speaker 2: As you can imagine working in healthcare it so it

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Speaker 2: can be an extremely stressful environment and you know, the

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Speaker 2: things that healthcare professionals deal with on a daily basis

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Speaker 2: can have you know, effects on staff. And the aim

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Speaker 2: of the dog is basically to be able to provide

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Speaker 2: that comfort to staff in times of increased stress, but

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Speaker 2: also just to create that more family environment within our hospitals.

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Speaker 2: You know, we've got a lot of staff that move

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Speaker 2: from into state, their families aren't here, and it's just

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Speaker 2: to help create that environment, you know, for them that's

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Speaker 1: Now I understand that the ball is certainly aiming to

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Speaker 1: raise funds to make it happen. How much is going

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Speaker 1: to be needed to go towards the therapy dog.

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Speaker 2: So a therapy dog costs approximately thirty thousand dollars and

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Speaker 2: that includes the training of the of the dog for

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Speaker 2: a twelve month period and also the training of the handlers.

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Speaker 2: There's also including in that is you know, follow up

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Speaker 2: support from pores and hart Dogs to you know, continue

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Speaker 2: checking the performance and the training of the dog. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but there's a lot of work involved in actually getting

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Speaker 1: Now I understand that the obviously you know, the ball

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Speaker 1: is going to be a massive social event I would

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Speaker 3: Is everybody pretty excited?

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Speaker 2: Oh, we are very pumped. Yeah, lots lots of excitement. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's just going to be a fabulous night. There's some

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Speaker 2: great entertainment. The Wraths Band are being flown up from

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Speaker 3: That's so cool.

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Speaker 1: I think it's wonderful, you know to see the community

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Speaker 2: Oh, we would love that. It's on this Saturday, the

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Speaker 2: It doesn't include a three course meal music obviously in

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Speaker 2: the live options. And yeah, you can still purchase tickets.

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Speaker 2: There's a few tickets left and they can either be

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Speaker 2: the phone eight nine seven two double five, double zero.

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Speaker 1: Now, Rene, if there's anybody listening this morning, who's thinking,

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Speaker 1: do you know what, I'd love to make a bit

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Speaker 3: Is there a way in which they can do that?

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Speaker 2: Definitely if they get in touch with the Catherine Town

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Speaker 2: Council through that phone number eight nine seven two double five,

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Speaker 2: double zero, that's definitely a way that they can provide

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Speaker 2: a donation towards this great cause.

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Speaker 1: Oh good stuff. Well, I hope it all goes incredibly well.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: And if you know, if you get all that money raise,

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Speaker 1: when when would the therapy dog be able to you know,

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Speaker 2: Well, that would be based on Paud's availability to source

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Speaker 2: a dog, but we would hope within the next six months.

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Speaker 1: Wonderful, wonderful stuff. Well, please keep us up to date

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Speaker 1: and let us know how it all goes. I love

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Speaker 1: I thought, what a wonderful thing to do, and and

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Speaker 1: you know, hopefully it has a great impact on the

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Speaker 1: morale of everybody that's at the hospital.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Katie, thank you, thanks for your time.