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• National update on Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci (VRE) in New Zealand

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  ... there has been an increase in hospital patients colonised with VRE in some regions of New Zealand. Measures to respond to this increase have been implemented, including monitoring where our current cases are, and enhancing interventions to limit further transmission. The below surveillance information is an indication of the current number of positive screens or new infections and does not represent outbreaks. VRE surveillance For current VRE case numbers in NZ, please refer to the ESR report on VRE (external link) . The ESR case report is replacing the fortnightly case update provided b ...

• COVID-19: Current cases

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  ... (< 90 days) 27163   Case outcomes since first New Zealand case  COVID-19 cases Change in the last week Total Recovered 881 2725327 Deceased* 13 4691*   *The Ministry of Health has recently switched its definition of 'deceased' from deaths within 28 days of testing positive for COVID-19 to deaths attributed to COVID-19. See the definitions section below for further details. Deaths with COVID-19 Cause of death Died within 28 days of positive test Died more than 28 days after positive test Total Change in the last week COVID as underlying 2759 192 2951 10 COVID as contrib ...

• Application Guide: Voluntary Bonding Scheme Payments

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  How to apply for payments Read this guide before completing a payment application form. It contains important information to help you: fill out the payment application forms correctly and include the necessary supporting documents. Administration of the Voluntary Bonding Scheme (the Scheme) was transferred from the Ministry of Health (the Ministry) to Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora (Health NZ), effective 1 July 2022. After 1 July 2022, the only change to existing bonds is that the agreement will be with Health NZ, rather than the Ministry. If Terms and Conditions refer to a DHB, the bond wi ...

• Summary of the pay equity for care and support workers

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  ... from the TerraNova pay equity claim brought by the union E tū on behalf of care worker Kristine Bartlett.  The Employment Court agreed that the Equal Pay Act 1972 allowed the claim - that there was systemic undervaluation of care and support work because it was mainly performed by women - to be tested in court. The Government decided to seek to resolve the case out of the courts through negotiations and to include home care and disability sector workers as well as aged residential care workers in the settlement.  Parties to the negotiations were the Ministry of ...

• Terms and conditions for the Pacific Community Health Fund

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  General This contains the terms and conditions which apply to all funding applications. The terms and conditions are non-negotiable and do not require a response. Each applicant that submits an application for project-specific funding has confirmed by their signature on the application that they accept these terms and conditions without reservation or variation. In preparing and submitting an application for funding you must: Consider all risks, contingencies and other circumstances relating to the delivery of the project and include adequate provision in your application to manage such risks ...

• What information we collect

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  What information we collect NZCR collects data for almost all malignant tumours (invasive and in-situ) first diagnosed in New Zealand. For exclusions please see the 'What is not collected' section. An overview of the information to be reported is contained in the   Cancer Registry Regulations 1994 (external link) . This data is collated and coded by a specialised team of cancer coders at NZCR. NZCR collects detailed pathological information about each tumour, as well as key demographic information to ensure that each new cancer is recorded only once in incidence statistics. Data in t ...

• Specialist allied care

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  ... allied professions include: Anaesthetic technicians, who support anaesthetists with administering and managing anaesthetisation. Radiation therapists, who support radiation-based therapies, particularly cancer care. Clinical physiologists, who do things like test and monitor lung function, or perform dialysis. Cardiac physiologists, who specialise in monitoring and managing heart function. Perfusionists, who specialise in using heart-lung machines to support circulation and breathing, as a replacement for patients’ own heart and lungs. Audiologists, who specialise in ear and hearing disord ...

• Taskforces

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  Planned Care Taskforce The Planned Care taskforce will centrally coordinate commissioning and engage with clinicians on prioritisation of activity for planned care delivery over the next 12-24 months. This Taskforce is chaired by an experienced senior leader, Mr Andrew Connolly,  to support the taskforce and work with the sector to make sure implementation is consistent across the country. This includes working with private hospital capacity in a more coordinated way, with subspecialty groups to advise on prioritisation and primary and community provider networks to add capacity to specia ...

• Pathology

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  Our pathology workforces work to analyse samples of the human body to understand what’s going on inside. They are responsible for running blood and tissue tests, as well as other analyses of people’s bodies (including a range of other biopsies). Many of our pathology workforces work out of laboratories, either owned by Health NZ or operated privately; around 75% of our laboratories used for public pathology work are privately-operated. There are several main pathology workforces: Pathologists – doctors who specialise in pathology. We have 356FTE pathologists in New Zealand: 213FTE employ ...

• Pneumococcal (Streptococcus pneumoniae) invasive disease

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  Chapter reviewed and updated in October 2017. A description of changes can be found at Updates to the Communicable Disease Control Manual . Epidemiology Expand all New Zealand Epidemiology New Zealand Epidemiology Invasive pneumococcal disease was added to the notifiable disease schedule primarily for the purposes of surveillance – in particular to monitor the effect of introducing the pneumococcal vaccine for children in June 2008 and the incidence of disease in the community. This epidemiological information, along with information on the distribution of serotypes from laboratory-based sur ...