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  • COVID-19: Support Workers

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    ... If you feel you are not coping, it is also important to get extra help. For support with grief, anxiety, distress or mental wellbeing, you can call or text 1737 to talk with a trained counsellor. Safe working environments for support workers Employers of support workers must have appropriate guidelines and systems in place aimed at keeping support workers safe in their workplace. This includes following the appropriate workplace health and safety guidelines and notifying the support worker if the person they care for is sick. If you are a family, whānau, or āiga carer, you can find more sp ...

  • Second-trimester anatomy scan (19+ weeks)

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    These guidelines were published in 2019 and are awaiting review, due 2022. Some content may be outdated. This is a routine screening examination, which should be offered to all women. For optimal visualisation, it is best performed after 19 weeks.   The purpose of the examination is to:   assess fetal dates if there has been no earlier scan assess fetal biometry assess fetal anatomy and screen for structural abnormality establish placental location.   Section 88 codes: AN, AF, see   Appendix 1 . Required clinical details   First-trimester combined screening or NIP ...

  • Providing abortion services

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    ... and professional development for abortion providers. You may wish to join one or both of these organisations. Abortion Providers Group Aotearoa New Zealand (APGANZ) (external link) New Zealand College of Sexual and Reproductive Health (NZCSRH) (external link) More information on training and guidelines for abortion providers can be found here: Guidelines and training for abortion service providers (external link) Access to funding Lead Maternity Carers (LMCs) including GPs and midwives, can receive funding for abortion services under the Primary Maternity Notice 2021. The following document ...

  • Acute rheumatic fever

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    Summary of updates to the guidance Expand all 2025   2025   April  Full chapter update to new format following a significant update to the 2024 Acute Rheumatic Fever Guidelines. Includes changes to the following sections:   Epidemiology – new section At risk and priority populations – new section  The disease – new section   Updated detail on the role of Group A Strep in diagnosis.  Spread of infection – new section   Routine prevention – new section   New overview on primordial, primary and secondary disease prevention.  Case def ...

  • National Intestinal Failure & Rehabilitation Service (NIFRS)

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    ... patients get the right kind of care quickly. Managing the registry of people with intestinal failure and making sure that information is used properly. Sharing treatment processes for people with long-term intestinal failure to help them recover and return to eating food normally. Standards, guidelines and pathways Standards, guidelines and pathways The NIFRS guidance for children and adults (external link) is hosted the Starship Clinical Guidelines site. The web-based format allows the service to update advice as knowledge evolves.  Papers and reports Development of the New Zealand Nat ...

  • Cardiovascular disease publications

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    ... of educational videos answering common questions and offering support to general practice for the more heart and diabetes checks and better help for smokers to quit health targets has been developed. Effective behaviour change in long-term conditions Published   02 October 2012 The NZ Guidelines Group completed a rapidE process as part of their contract with the Ministry of Health to produce evidence-based guidance for the health sector focusing on implementation. The rapidE process looked at the available evidence on the effectiveness of health behaviour change interventions for peop ...

  • For Hospitals

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    ... peoples will be disproportionately impacted by worse health outcomes due to antibiotic resistance. What hospital prescribers can do What hospital prescribers can do What hospital prescribers can do   Prescribe antibiotics only when needed, using your current antimicrobial treatment guidelines. (See   Antimicrobial prescribing guidance and antibiograms ) Check out the recommendations for using or avoiding antibiotics at Choosing Wisely. (See   Choosing Wisely antibiotic messages ) Talk to your patients about the importance of appropriate antibiotic use and the dangers of a ...

  • Objective 3: Infection prevention and control

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    ... Resistance Action Plan is to improve infection prevention and control measures across human health and animal care settings to prevent infection and transmission of micro-organisms. Priority action areas Expand all Priority action area 7 Priority action area 7 Develop and update national guidelines and standards for IPC to achieve a nationally consistent approach, and enhance accreditation and quality assurance programmes so that more practitioners follow best-practice IPC measures across human health, animal health and agriculture. Ongoing activities Keep national guidelines for resista ...

  • Delirium

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    Delirium | Mate kuawa (Frailty care guides 2023) Read the Delirium | Mate kuawa (Frailty care guides 2023) - Health Quality and Safety Commission (external link) By district Find clinical guidelines in your district. Expand all Lakes Lakes Delirium is a disturbance of attention or awareness accompanied by a change in baseline cognition not caused by a pre-existing or evolving neurocognitive disorder. A patient with delirium has a reduced ability to direct, focus, sustain, and shift attention. Approximately 40% of people in hospital will develop delirium. Most at risk are older people — espec ...

  • Aged-residential care resources

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    Templates and guidelines Templates and guidelines for aged-residential care services. Expand all Illness register Illness register Aged-residential care facility - Illness register [DOCX, 27 KB] Cleaning advice for staff Cleaning advice for staff Aged-residential care facility - cleaning advice for staff [PDF, 187 KB] Influenza-like illness and RSV guidance Influenza-like illness and RSV guidance Aged-residential care facility - Influenza-like illness and RSV guidance [PDF, 285 KB] Isolation guidance Isolation guidance Aged-residential care facility - Isolation guidance [PDF, 203 KB] Long-term ...