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• Objective 4: Antimicrobial stewardship

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  ... optimise the use of antimicrobial medicines in human health, animal health and agriculture, including by maintaining and enhancing the regulation of animal and agriculture antimicrobials. Priority areas 12 to 15 Expand all Priority area 12 Priority area 12 Develop a national programme or standard for AMS in all sectors of human health, including resources and/or targets for use in all sectors.   Ongoing activities   1  Continue to consider antimicrobial stewardship under  PHARMAC’s Factors for Consideration (external link)  in antimicrobial funding decisions and con ...

• Social work

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  Social workers are a generalist allied workforce focused on providing holistic whānau care, focused on people who have complex social and health needs. They work across a whole range of settings (such as in mental health and addictions services), including outside the health sector in a range of settings that include Government agencies such as Oranga Tamariki, Ministry of Social Development, Education, New Zealand Defence Force, Corrections and Police and other non-government organisations (NGOs), and iwi-based organisations delivering broader community based social care. As of 2023, 7,520 a ...

• Notify National Public Health Service - South Island | Te Waipounamu

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  ... notifiable to medical officer of health (other than notifiable infectious diseases) - New Zealand Legislation (external link) Section 143 Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 - New Zealand Legislation (external link) Canterbury and West Coast notifications If you need further information than what is available below, call: 03 364 1777 if you are in Canterbury 03 687 2600 if you are in South Canterbury 03 768 1160 if you are in West Coast. Expand all Communicable disease notifications Communicable disease notifications Send communicable disease notifications using Cortex or ...

• Foreword and acknowledgements

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  Foreword Much of the surveillance of communicable disease in New Zealand is underpinned by the legal requirement – under the Health Act 1956 and Tuberculosis Act 1948 – for medical practitioners, and laboratories that handle human specimens, to notify named diseases. The primary purpose of this notification system is to prompt public health action to manage the case and reduce risk. The Communicable Disease Control Manual aims to assist this objective; specifically, it seeks to inform and assist those at the frontline of public health action, namely the medical officers of health, health p ...

• National Non-Admitted Patient Collection Data Mart data dictionary

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  The National Non-Admitted Patient Collection Data Mart (NNPAC DM) provides consistent national data on non-admitted patient (outpatient and emergency department) activity. Its primary use will be for calculating Inter District Flows (IDFs).  It may also help provide information to measure health outcomes and inform decisions on funding allocations and policy. Transaction records containing details of the non-admitted patient event, including date, facility and type of service. All records must have a valid NHI number.   Publishing information Date of publication:  01 July 2 ...

• Appendix 6: Placental anomalies

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  ... (B) . Succenturiate lobe   A variant in placental morphology, when there is one or more smaller accessory placental lobe separate from the main disc of the placenta. Occurs in approximately 2 in every 1,000 pregnancies. When a succenturiate lobe is identified, it is important to assess for the location of connecting vessels, and particularly, vasa previa. In a bilobed placenta, the two lobes are of similar size.   Associations/complications   Type II vasa previa Increased incidence of postpartum haemorrhage due to retained placental tissue. Image 6.3 Main placental lobe p ...

• Public health alerts

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  National public health alerts Expand all Product safety alert for 4Fr Bard/BD PICC lines Product safety alert for 4Fr Bard/BD PICC lines Date issued: 19 December 2024 Information to share with patients who have a 4Fr Bard/BD PICC line. Our clinicians have reported issues with some 4Fr Bard/BD PICC lines. For example, some of these lines have developed a crack in them. A PICC line is a peripherally inserted central catheter line. It is a long, flexible tube that is inserted into a vein, and is used to give medicines or fluids. In response, Health NZ has taken a precautionary approach, to reduce ...

• COVID-19

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  Expand all Unite against COVID-19 Unite against COVID-19 This section provides the latest updates, information, and advice on COVID-19.   Information about Unite against COVID-19 (external link) KidsHealth: COVID-19 KidsHealth: COVID-19 COVID-19 is a disease that can affect your lungs, airways and other organs. Find out the best ways to help your children, family/whānau and yourself in this pandemic. You can also check the section COVID-19 immunisation in children.   Information about COVID-19 on the KidsHealth NZ website (external link) Health Navigator: How to care ...

• Kete 3 (3-4 months)

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  ... who deliver Well Child/Tamariki Ora (WCTO) services in accordance with the WCTO Schedule. WCTO practitioner handbook [PDF, 2.8 MB] WCTO schedule WCTO schedule The Schedule outlines the 12 core visits delivered as part of the Well Child/Tamariki Ora Programme to protect and improve health outcomes for New Zealand children, from birth to 5 years. WCTO schedule (external link) Health and development assessments Expand all Child growth and development Child growth and development Information about child growth and development available in the WCTO practitioner handbook [PDF, 2.8 MB] Developmental ...

• Statements of need

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  About Statements of Need Statements of Need (SoNs),  are issued by Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora (Health NZ) to allow medical practitioners to obtain a J-1 visa to train in the United States of America. The SoN is one of many United States requirements which must be met before a J-1 visa can be obtained. These statements certify that: the training that the named practitioner is intending to undertake is in an area for which there is a need in Aotearoa New Zealand; and the practitioner has given an undertaking to the New Zealand government that they intend to return to Aotearoa New Zeala ...