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Primary Care News
February 2016 Issue 51
Keeping up communication between Auckland and Waitemata DHBs and Primary Care
Content in this Issue:
Clinical Services Update Staff Profile
Clinical Services Updates
Support, education and opportunity DHB Primary care clinical contacts and next issue
Staff profile: Dr Stuart Jenkins
Dr Stuart Jenkins is the Clinical Director, Primary Care Planning and Funding, Waitemata and Auckland DHBs. He is also a GP and practice owner at the Apollo Medical Centre which he developed as part of the Apollo Health Park. Stuart has previously been an elected board member at Waitemata DHB and over recent years has taken on an operational role at the DHB with the aim of bringing positive change to the health sector. Prior to embarking on a career in medicine he worked in marketing and a range of other roles. This helped to inform his view that health is no different to other service industries. He wants to see a Copernican shift in health with services being developed around the patient journey. To contact Stuart with feedback or queries please email: [email protected]
Rheumatic Fever and Sore Throat Clinics
Last year Auckland DHB and Waitemata DHB reached out to specific communities with high Rheumatic Fever incidence. Thank you to all the groups who are actively supporting this kaupapa and for hosting our work-shops.
If your organisation covers the communities listed below, we are happy to come and do a workshop with frontline staff about sore throat clinics and how to encourage parents and caregivers to use them. The workshops also include how health providers can support and awhi families to overcome any access barriers and to advocate for families when needed. We are interested in working with you to look at how to create opportunities for community empowerment.
Communities we are currently working with: Avondale, Beachhaven, Kelston, Massey, Mt Roskill, New Lynn, Northcote, Orakei, Oranga, Otahuhu, Ranui, Tamaki, Te Papapa, Wellsford
For further information please contact Sjimmy Fransen: [email protected] or follow this link to find out more.
Connecting with Primary Care
Auckland and Waitemata DHBs both held primary care clinical engagement meetings towards the end of last year. Both events were well attended and received excellent feedback. The evenings held at Auckland City Hospital focused on acute coronary syndrome and acute stroke management while the event held at North Shore Hospital focused on women’s health. The GPs and Practice Nurses that attended enjoyed the opportunity to meet senior hospital staff, enhance their clinical skills, and discuss salient patient management issues. Similar events will be held during 2016.
Please watch this newsletter for details or email Leanne Kirton, [email protected] if you would like to be sent information about future Continuing Professional Education (CPE) events.
Auckland DHB's community services team also hosted five locality events with primary and community providers in November 2015. Those who attended included representatives from GP practices, aged residential care facilities, hospice, non-governmental organisations, home-based support service providers and PHOs. The team also recently consulted on the community services locality model of care. This model will continue to evolve in 2016.
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The Auckland Regional After Hours Network: Update
The metro-Auckland DHBs have agreed to cancel the current procurement process and take the opportunity to re-evaluate the value and effectiveness of the current After Hours model with a view to potentially reconsider the design. There are two options currently being developed which are described in more detail in the update paper via this link:
For any queries or further information please contact Harshna Mistry by emailing: [email protected]
Clinical Services Updates Contd.
Take Charge Study (TaCAS)
Auckland DHB will be participating in a multi-centred randomised, controlled, parallel group trial across seven DHBs to investigate an intervention to make improvements in health-related quality of life after acute stroke. It is a randomised controlled trial of a novel communication intervention for people after they have experienced a stroke. The intervention has been tested before in Maori and Pacific People populations and has been shown to be effective. Therefore, Maori and Pacific Peoples are excluded from the current study. This study is for non-Maori who survive a stroke and who aren’t discharged from hospital.
The interventions efficacy is not only in quality of life. It reduces dependency and carer strain 12 months after stroke. Recruitment in Auckland started in February and will run for 18 months. The contact at Auckland DHB for questions or further information is Anna McRae, Allied Health Director, Community and Long Term Conditions Directorate. The principal investigator is Dr Harry McNaughton Programme Director Stroke Rehabilitation Research, Medical Research Institute of New Zealand and neurologist at Wellington Hospital. More study ethics approval detail can be found by using this link.
Cervical Screening - Improving Engagement, Participation and Informed Consent
Developed with WorkBase, this training programme takes a health literacy approach. The focus is on how to support priority women – but the approach will be helpful for all women.
Workshop One – A Team Approach to Engagement for admin and clinical staff.
Workshop Two – Participation and Informed Consent for clinicians
Session plans, power point displays and participant handouts are freely available here for you to use.
If you have any questions regarding use of the tools, please contact project coordinators Pauline Proud or Jane Grant .
Courses available in Mandarin
Course Date Area Venue
Diabetes self-management for
Mandarin speakers
20th February 2016 (Saturday),
9.30am – 12.30pm
Central Auckland Auckland PHO, Level 4, 210
Khyber pass Road, Grafton
Diabetes self-management for
Mandarin speakers
27th February 2016 (Saturday),
9.30am – 12.30pm
Central Auckland Auckland PHO, Level 4, 210
Khyber pass Road, Grafton
Please contact 09 379 4022 for bookings or any enquiries.
Support, Education and Opportunity - Diabetes Self-management
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Self-management of Diabetes Courses Contd.
For North Shore and West Auckland patients…….
Course Start date End date Area Venue
Diabetes Self-Management Education
Friday, 19 February 2016 (morning course)
Friday, 11 March 2016
(morning course)
Kumeu Kumeu Art Centre
Diabetes Self-Management Education
Tuesday, 23 February
2016 (evening course)
Tuesday, 29th March
2016 (Evening Course)
New Lynn New Lynn Community
Centre
My Life, Our Health Tuesday, 23 February
2016 (morning
course)
Tuesday, 29th March 2016 (morning course)
Kumeu Kumeu Art Centre
Diabetes Self-Management Programme
Wednesday, 24 Febru-ary 2016 (evening course)
Wednesday, 16th March 2016 (evening course)
Albany Apollo Health Centre
Diabetes Self -Management Programme
Awaiting confirmation Awaiting confirmation Henderson Waitakere Community Resource Centre.
To refer patients email: [email protected] or Fax 09 623 0380, or for further information please contact
Nivedita Sharma Vij of Procare on 354 7770 or 027 339 5740.
For Central and East Auckland Patients……
Course Date Area Venue
Session One: Living well with Diabetes
Wednesday 17th
February 2016, 6pm-8pm
Central Auckland Auckland PHO, Unit D,
Level 4 210 Khyber Pass
Road, Grafton
Session Two: Preventing Complications and Medication
Wednesday 24th
February 2016, 6pm-8pm
Central Auckland Auckland PHO, Unit D,
Level 4 210 Khyber Pass
Road, Grafton
Session Three: Healthy Lifestyle Wednesday 2nd March
2016, 6pm-8pm
Central Auckland Auckland PHO, Unit D,
Level 4 210 Khyber Pass
Road, Grafton
Session Four: Monitoring and Management of Diabetes
Wednesday 9th March 2016, 6pm-8pm
Central Auckland Auckland PHO, Unit D,
Level 4 210 Khyber Pass
Road, Grafton
You can refer a patient by completing the DSME referral form and faxing it to Auckland PHO on 379 4024 or
emailing the referral in your outbox documents to [email protected].
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Conversations that Count Day 2016
Auckland District Health Board will be celebrating our national promotional event for Advance Care Planning, Conversations that Count Day on April 16th 2016. We will be partnering with a range of local and national groups including St John, Age Concern and Hospice New Zealand, as well as groups from the Aged Residential Care and NGO sectors based here in Auckland to raise awareness of the importance of planning for future and end of life care.
Auckland DHB is preparing a range of short films, posters and resources that we are able to supply primary care practices in order to support Conversations that Count Day in the weeks leading up to and after 16th April 2016. To register your interest, email us at [email protected], or for more information about Advance Care Planning, visit www.advancecareplanning.org.nz/
Don’t forget you can send your patients’ ACP to the team here at Auckland DHB, where we will take care of the scanning and the creation of an alert. This means that an ACP will be visible to hospital clinicians as soon as they open patients’ Concerto hospital records. Please remember to include the patient’s NHI with any documentation you send through. If a patient decides to change their ACP, simply send us the latest version so that we have an up-to-date record.
Post an ACP to us: Advance Care Planning Administrator
Project Management Office
Level 14, Support Building
Auckland City Hospital
Private Bag 92024
Grafton, Auckland
Fax: 09 3753403
Study day Auckland DHB: An Introduction to Sexual Health for Health Professionals
This course is provided by the Auckland Sexual Health Services and subjects covered include;
Diagnosis and management of STIs
Sexual health history taking
Referral pathways for sexual health management including sexual assault
Overview of sexuality including a Maori perspective
The impact of living with HIV
Venue: Liggins Theatre, Building 16, Level 1, Greenlane Clinical Centre.
Dates: 7th April or 15th September 2016, 9.00am – 4.20pm
7 hours of Continuing Professional Education (CPE)
For more information please email Sook Ping Hor at [email protected] or visit www.ashs.org.nz
Support, Education and Opportunity
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Support, Education and Opportunity
Health Pathways - An Update
Where are we at?
Since the launch of the HealthPathways platform on 24th August 2015
For those practices that do not have Nexxt™ installed register for access at: http://aucklandregion.healthpathways.org.nz
The target of 92 practices to be trained in the pilot phase has been reached. 416
medical professionals have enrolled 1,630 patients onto a pathway to date.
GP Staff invited to ‘NGO Open Day’ at Waitakere Hospital
11.30am to 2.00pm, Tuesday 8 March, (behind main reception)
Come and talk to the NGO community organisations who provide health services and support to people in the community.
Organisations attending are: Altogether Autism, Arthritis, Alzheimer’s, Asthma, Bupa Care Services, Disability Connect, Driving Miss Daisy, Epilepsy, Essential Men, Family Action Counselling, Geneva Northlink Healthcare, Healthwest, Hepatitis Foundation of NZ, Lifewise, Mind and Body, Parent Aid, Parent to Parent, Plunket, Pregnancy Help, Presbyterian Support Northern, Procare, Stroke Foundation, Te Whanau O Waipareira Trust, The Fono, Vision West Healthcare and more.
For more information please phone 839 0512.
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Support, Education and Opportunity
The ‘Your Local Doctor Campaign’
What: An enrolment drive for Auckland’s Asian communities Why: Promoting messaging to Asian communities about their frequently asked questions:
What is the difference between a doctor who works
in a general practice/clinic and a doctor who works in
a hospital?
Why can’t I just go to a hospital if I’m sick? How:
Promotion at ethnic specific events by ethnic partners
Materials i.e. posters and leaflets available (English,
Simplified Chinese and Korean) for general practices
Media –digital, print, radio planned for April/May
Engagement with Asian ethnic communities
Key messaging include:
If you enrol with your local doctor, you get benefits
including:
Cheaper fees at your regular doctor
A charge of only $5 for each prescription from
your doctor
Access to free interpretation services, if
required
Additional services including support to better
manage conditions such as diabetes and high
blood pressure and advice on healthy lifestyles
such as help to quit smoking
Developing a strong relationship with your
doctor and general practice team
For more information and resources, visit
www.yourlocaldoctor.co.nz or contact Samantha
Bennett, Asian, Migrant & Refugee Health Gain Manager
Waitemata DHB and Auckland DHB:
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Support, Education and Opportunity Contd.
Help with Getting to Appointments
www.healthpoint.co.nz, in response to community feedback, has added a new transport function. Now every service shows, from your location, how patients can reach their destination via their transport mode of choice e.g. walking, bus, train, cycling or driving. Patients can access this information by looking underneath the google map on the left hand side of each service page for the ‘Get directions’ tab. Clicking on this tab will link patients through to Google map directions where they can see the route to their destination and estimated time to get there. Check it out on www.healthpoint.co.nz. Please pass this information on to your patients.
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Support, Education and Opportunity Contd.
Auckland DHB GP Help & Consultant Advice Lines GP Help Line - to speak to medical staff (09) 307 2800 Consultant Advice Lines Cardiology: Admissions phone 307 2800 for Cardiology Registrar on call, Consultant Advice 375 4388
General Medicine: General Medicine Consultant:021 555 256 , General Medicine Registrar: 021 938 477
General Surgery: 021 938 931
Gynaecology: 09 307 2800 and ask for the on call Gynaecologist.
Obstetrics: 09 307 2800 and ask for the on call Obstetrician.
Neurology: 09 375 3484
Renal: 021 938 167 9.00am-5.00pm Mon-Fri
Respiratory: 09 375 3414
ED SMO: 021 410 539 (Available from 0800 to 2400 every day)
Gastroenterology: 021 884 631 On-call Registrar
Endocrine Registrar: 021 323 715
The Acute Eye Referral Line: 09 630 9964.
Paediatric: 021 740 271
Starship Children’s Hospital Emergency: 307 4902
Waitemata DHB GP Help Line
GP Help Line - to speak to medical staff - 486-8908
Primary Care Contacts and Next Issue
New Primary Care News e - Format Available
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Thank You!
Waitemata DHB Radiology Service Seeks Your Feedback
As part of our accreditation programme and as a tool to improve our service, Waitemata DHB Radiology Ser-vice is conducting a short online survey of GP referrers who refer to the Radiology Service at North Shore Hos-pital and/or Waitakere Hospital. The online survey will take around five minutes to complete. Please take a few moments to complete the survey by clicking here - we do value your feedback! The survey will be open until 25th February.
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Primary Care Contacts and Next Issue Contd.
DHB Clinical Contacts for Primary Care
Auckland and Waitemata DHB Planning, Funding and Outcomes
Stuart Jenkins, Primary Care Clinical Director [email protected]
Jean McQueen, Primary Care Nursing Director [email protected]
Auckland DHB Primary Care Directors
Diana Good , Women’s Health [email protected]
Barnett Bond, Paediatrics [email protected]
Rob Wallace, Adult Medicine and Oncology [email protected]
Kristin Good, Mental Health [email protected]
Kathy McDonald, Surgery [email protected]
Jim Kriechbaum , Cardiovascular Community and Long Term Conditions, [email protected]
Jock Carnachan, Orthopaedics, [email protected]
Janine Bycroft, Planning , Funding and Outcomes [email protected] Waitemata DHB Primary Care Advisor Kim Bannister, [email protected]
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Keeping up communication between Auckland and Waitemata DHBs and Primary Care