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• Zero Data

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  About Zero Data For some New Zealanders, the cost of mobile data can be a barrier to accessing essential health and wellbeing information and digital health services. Those who cannot access information and services often have the highest needs. Zero Data removes this barrier by providing free access to key health sector websites accessed through the Zero Data (external link)  website for anyone using the Spark, Skinny, One NZ, 2degrees, Warehouse Mobile, Slingshot or Orcon mobile networks. All mobile data charges for content accessed through this portal are automatically charged bac ...

• Reducing rheumatic fever

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  The Roadmap ensures we have a strong focus on eliminating inequities, meeting our commitments to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, ensuring timely access to quality care and placing the needs of people with lived experience of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease at the heart of our efforts. Data on this page is sourced from the National Minimum Dataset. How are we doing? In 2024, there were 199 people admitted to hospital for the first time with rheumatic fever (3.74 per 100,000 people) in New Zealand. This is an increase of 17 people compared to 2023 (3.48 per 100,000 people).  First episode ...

• Specialist medical services specifications

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  Specialist medical services Tier 1 Document link Status Purchase units Date of publication         Specialist Medical and Surgical [PDF, 428 KB]   T1_HSS_SpecialistMedicalSurgicalServices_202409 Please see related pages below for the Long Term Conditions Outcomes Framework Mandatory See service specification for list of purchase units September 2024 National services Tier 2 Document link Status Purchase units Date of publication Clinical Genetics [PDF, 329 KB] T2_SM_Clinical_Genetics_Service_202409 Mandatory NS10010, NS10011, NS10012, NS10013, M00010 October 2024 Diabe ...

• Primary health care providers

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  ... nurse practitioner, registered nurse, pharmacists, and other health professionals (such as physiotherapists, dieticians, psychologists, counsellors and occupational therapists) working together to enable people to have direct access to a range of primary health care providers. The health reforms aim to extend and develop this concept and increase the role of Māori providers. Visiting a general practice The Government provides subsidies to lower the cost of general practice visits for people enrolled in a primary health organisation (PHO), usually through a general practice. You can be ...

• Sore, tender and damaged nipples

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  Nipple pain is the second-most-common reason for mothers discontinuing breastfeeding. 96% of women in a cohort of 100 experienced sore nipples in the first week and the majority described their pain as moderate to intense. Causes Nipples are normally tender in the first days after breastfeeding starts. Expect tenderness at the beginning of a breastfeed up until about day 7–10 post-birth with peak tenderness between days 3 and 6. Pain extending into the breastfeed is not normal. Continued nipple pain after 10 days is not normal. Poor positioning and attachment of the baby on the breast. ...

• International Health Regulations

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  The purpose of the International Health Regulations (IHR) is to protect against the international spread of diseases by providing measures to prevent, prepare for, and respond to such events. Any public health response must be appropriate to the public health risk and avoid unnecessary interference with international traffic and trade. The IHR has a broad scope to cover existing and new diseases and emergencies caused by non-infectious disease agents (eg, radiation or chemical spills) and pests/vectors.  IHR and the border The IHR is an important framework for many border controls. It tak ...

• Study: Concentrations of persistent organic pollutants in blood of adults

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  Massey University’s Centre for Public Health Research (CPHR) measured the concentrations of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in blood from a cross-section of adult New Zealanders. Serum samples were collected from 747 randomly selected participants across a range of age groups, ethnicity, gender, and geographic regions. A copy of the report is available from the Centre for Public Health Research: Concentrations of Selected Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in the Serum of New Zealanders - Centre for Public Health Research (external link) The results of the study showed serum concentra ...

• Yellow fever training and authorisation

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  The information below provides an outline of the training and authorisation pathways for yellow fever authorisation. You should use this in conjunction with the Policy for the authorisation of yellow fever vaccinators and vaccination centres in New Zealand (external link) . If you are looking for general information on yellow fever, yellow fever vaccine, authorisation of yellow fever vaccination centres, yellow fever requirements when travelling and yellow fever documents view this information about Yellow Fever (external link) . Become a Yellow Fever authorised vaccinator Registered nurses, n ...

• The Health Workforce Plan 2023/24

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  The 2023/24 Workforce Plan in review The 2023/24 Health Workforce Plan was our first. In launching our next Plan, we have evaluated how we went at delivering on our commitments. We delivered completely on 35 of the initiatives that we committed to deliver in 2023/2024; with another 25 delivered in part. A full evaluation of the 2023/24 Plan is published alongside this Plan – but a summary is: We have learned from last year’s Plan in developing the initiatives in this Plan, including reflecting on the kinds of initiatives which tended to deliver and those which did not. We delivered some si ...

• Pharmaceutical data web tool

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  Pātiki and Waharua Kōpito patterns Link to the Pharmaceutical Data web tool The web tool displays the number of initial dispensings of medicines for the years 2019–2023. Data in this web tool were sourced from Health New Zealand's Pharmaceutical Collection, which contains claim and payment information from pharmacists for dispensings of publicly funded medicines. View the Pharmaceutical Data web tool (goes to another website) About the Pharmaceutical Data web tool The Pharmaceutical Data web tool displays summary data on medicines that were dispensed in community pharmacies (not in ho ...