Webinar: Building the future of health, 7 September
The following message comes from Te Aka Whai Ora and Te Whatu Ora:
Kia hiwa rā, kia hiwa rā!
He tono ā-ipurangi tēnei kia hono mai koe ki te pae kōrero nei mō ngā kaunekenga o te whakahoutanga o te pūnaha hauora Aotearoa.
We warmly welcome you to join our upcoming hui with Riana Manuel, Chief Executive Te Aka Whai Ora - Māori Health Authority, and Fepulea’i Margie Apa, Chief Executive Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand.
Date: Wednesday 7 September
Time: 11.15am - 12.00pm
Location: online webinar
Link: https://myevents.nz/HealthNZ/buildingthefutureofhealth2
This hui will include:
- Te Aka Whai Ora and Te Whatu Ora updates, including progress on localities
- An introduction to Te Pae Tata - the interim New Zealand Health Plan
- How Data and Digital technology can help us achieve better health outcomes for all New Zealanders
Riana and Margie welcome your questions and feedback. You'll have the opportunity to post questions via the event link and there will be a focused question and answer session in the second half of the session. After the hui we will also send out a short survey so you can provide feedback and let us know what you’d like to see in future forums.
We hope you can join us, but if you can’t we will share a recording of Margie and Riana’s update on the stakeholder pages of the Te Aka Whai Ora and Te Whatu Ora websites.
If you’d like to review the previous hui on 26 July you can find it here:
Stakeholder Hui – Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand
You are welcome to share this invitation with your community.
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Allied Health trauma rehabilitation
An interactive allied health trauma rehabilitation study day held on 15 August in Wellington brought together 34 professionals from across the country to collaborate on the future of trauma rehabilitation and discuss the importance of using best-practice models of care and high-quality service delivery to support people through their recovery.
The study day was the first of its kind and generated overwhelmingly positive feedback. There was a clear drive among attendees towards increasing the profile of allied health in trauma care and creating a national group to help improve services and incorporate best-practice care delivery.
The Commission and Network team recognise the importance of the allied health workforce in the ongoing vision of developing a contemporary trauma system in Aotearoa New Zealand.
For more details, visit the Health Quality and Safety Commission's website: hqsc.govt.nz/news/study-day-increases-profile-of-allied-health-in-trauma-rehabilitation-and-care/
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Recent Allied Health members meetings
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Communications from Martin Chadwick
The following message comes from the Ministry of Health:
Please see attached communications for distribution as appropriate:
1. The closing of the Provisional Vaccinator, Provisional Pharmacist Vaccinator and the COVID-19 Vaccinator Working Under Supervision (CVWUS) pathways; and
2. CPR certificates must now be current. That is, we have removed the expired within 12 months grace period.
Closure_of_PV_PPV_CVWUS_pathway_and_CPR_expiry.pdf
3. The opening of the Vaccinating Health Worker entry pathway:
COMMS_VHW_Entry_Pathway_open.pdf
Please reach out to Kate Chong (Kate.Chong@health.govt.nz) if you have any further queries.
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Harkness Fellowships
The 2023–24 Harkness Fellowships application will remain open until 1 November.
Now is the time to nominate individuals who show significant promise as policy-oriented health care leaders and would benefit from a year in the United States conducting comparative research, honing their leadership skills, and building a robust network for ongoing exchange and collaboration.
The Commonwealth Fund is asking for your help to identify qualified applicants across all participating countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.
To make a nomination, please complete this online form:
commonwealthfund.formtitan.com/harknessnomination#/
Harkness Fellows are midcareer professionals in government, policy, health services research, clinical practice, health care management, and journalism, among other fields. Applicants must be from one of the nine countries listed above. People belonging to racial or ethnic groups that are underrepresented in the fields of health policy and care delivery are strongly encouraged to apply.
If you have questions about the program or nomination process, email Molly FitzGerald, Program Manager, International Leadership Programs, at mf@cmwf.org.
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COVID Care in the Community update
The following message is from the Ministry of Health:
Clinical guidance and funding model
- The team has reviewed the clinical guidance and funding model for COVID-19 clinical assessments in primary care. It has been simplified and updated to align with Pharmac’s COVID-19 antivirals eligibility criteria, as well as general COVID-19 and Care in the Community policy. This reflects the commitment to ensuring resources are available for those with the highest clinical risk, rather than providing proactive initial assessments to all COVID-19 positive patients. As a result, this should reduce some of the pressure on the general practice workforce.
The following changes will come into effect from Monday 12 September:
- Providers are funded to undertake a desktop review, where necessary, for COVID-19 cases to determine whether they meet the COVID-19 therapeutics eligibility criteria set by Pharmac. A desktop review claim can still be submitted when the Pharmac criteria is not met. There is no longer a requirement to contact the patient if they do not meet the therapeutics criteria by text or otherwise when the criteria is not met.
- Proactive initial assessments are only funded for those who
- meet the COVID-19 therapeutics eligibility criteria set by Pharmac, or
- are not enrolled with a primary care provider
- Clinical escalation consultations can be claimed either when a person who is self-managing becomes unwell and contacts a provider for advice and treatment, or when a clinician needs to escalate a case to another clinician.
- A transfer-of-care review following hospital discharge for COVID-19 care is still available.
- Funding for in-clinic reviews is retained for COVID-19 related consults only. A person with COVID-19 who requires assessment during the isolation period can be charged any usual co-payments when presenting with a condition unrelated to their COVID infection.
- Discharging a person from isolation is no longer required, as patients are automatically notified of when they are due to finish their isolation period. The discharge payment is no longer available.
Some elements of the guidance and funding model have not changed.
- The timing and frequency of regular reviews is clinically determined at an initial assessment, or clinical escalation encounter. This is still the case.
- Claiming for post-COVID review remains. If a person still feels unwell from COVID-19 (up to six weeks from their day 0), they can access a free consult with their GP.
The full amended guidance and funding model, as well as supporting information, is attached:
Updated claiming guidance for general practice clinical assessment of COVID19 patients.pdf
If you have any questions about these changes, please feel free to get in touch with the Care in the Community team: COVIDCareintheCommunity@health.govt.nz.
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Australian Allied Health awards, 10 September
The Australian Allied Health awards are taking place in Sydney from 6pm on 10 September 2022, and AHANZ members have been offered the opportunity to watch the live stream at no charge (tickets cost A$55).
Here is the link to the tickets - alliedhealthawards.com/tickets Please use the code GETINVOLVED! to 'purchase' the complementary tickets.
The program can be found in their magazine along with information on all the finalists: alliedhealthawards.com/magazine
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Notices from members
- Clinical Exercise Physiology NZ is holding their AGM and conference on Saturday 17 September, in person at AUT Millennium and also on Zoom. The cost for non-members is
$60. For more details and to register, visit their website: CONFERENCE 2022 | cepnz
- Music Therapy NZ are running an in-person Grounding Workshop on 25 September in Auckland. The cost for non-members is $60. For more details and to register, visit: eventbrite.com/e/the-grounding-workshop-tickets-383755040657
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Notices from the Executive Committee
- We still have several packs of the resources Trish Gledhill brought to the June members meeting, about the "Let's Get Real" programme. Please email me if you'd like a set to be posted out to you (at no cost to you).
- The next Allied Health Sector webinar with Martin Chadwick is taking place at 3-4.30pm on Wednesday 14 September. If you haven't already received the calendar invite and Teams link from Caitlin, let me know and I can forward it to you.
- Our next members meeting, and the last one for 2022, will take place on Wednesday 23 November from 1.15-4pm at Skills Active, 4 Sages Lane, Wellington, and also online. Let me know if you're interested in going for dinner afterwards.
Best wishes,
Nikky Winchester
Executive Director, AHANZ
executivedirector@alliedhealth.org.nz
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