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  • Child development

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    By district Find referral information for your local child development service. Expand all Lakes — Rotorua and Taupō Lakes — Rotorua and Taupō Child development team — guidelines for referrals [DOCX, 31 KB] Child development team referral form [DOCX, 65 KB] Waikato Waikato A referral for the child development service must come from: healthcare providers such as GPs Tamariki Ora | Well Child Whānau Āwhina | Plunket early childhood centres schools through: specials education needs coordinator resource teachers for learning and behaviour Ministry of Education special education other edu ...

  • Gonorrhoea (case definition only)

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    ... from mother to baby at delivery (e.g,. neonatal conjunctivitis). Disease may be communicable for months in untreated cases. For information on case management and contact tracing and management, please refer to the  New Zealand Sexual Health Society’s gonorrhoea management guidelines (external link) .

  • Addiction service specifications

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    Addiction service specifications Tier 2 Document link Status Purchase units Date of publication Addiction Services [PDF, 309 KB] T2_MHA_AddictionServices_202409 Mandatory   September 2024 Tier 3 Document link Status Purchase units Date of publication Alcohol and Other Drug Day Treatment Programme [PDF, 304 KB] T3_MHA_AlcoholAndOtherDrugDayTreatmentProgramme_202409 Non-mandatory MHD75A, MHD75B, MHD75C, MHD75D, MHD75E, MHD75S September 2024 Alcohol And Other Drug Services - Community Support Service With Accommodation [DOCX, 66 KB] T3_MHA_AlcoholAndOtherDrugCommunitySupportServiceWithAccomm

  • Reports on Violence Intervention Programmes (VIP) in district health boards

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    Ten rounds of audits from 2004–2015 are documented and summarise the development of DHB family violence systems response in New Zealand.   Evaluation reports   Health Response to Family Violence: 2015 Violence Intervention Programme Evaluation Full report (PDF, 6.5MB) (external link) Summary (PDF, 1.4MB) (external link)   Hospital Responsiveness to Family Violence: 120 month follow-up evaluation (2014) Full report (PDF, 4.8MB) (external link) Summary (PDF, 1.8MB) (external link)   Hospital Responsiveness to Family Violence: 108 month follow-up evaluation (2013) Full repor

  • Credentialling

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    ... can find out more about what procedures you can apply for in the New Zealand National Credentialling Framework. Read the New Zealand Credentialling Framework - Ministry of Health (external link) Can we keep performing women’s pelvic surgery if we’re following the Australian Commission’s Guidelines? Can we keep performing women’s pelvic surgery if we’re following the Australian Commission’s Guidelines? Yes, you can continue using the Australian Commission’s guidelines for the procedures included in their guidance until there is an announcement by the Ministry of Health to advise ...

  • Meningococcal Disease (Neisseria Meningitidis Invasive Disease)

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    ... a single dose for children over 12 years of age and adults, except pregnant and lactating women. This is the preferred prophylaxis for women on the oral contraceptive pill. Also preferable for prophylaxis of large groups. Ciprofloxacin has been recommended in all age groups in international guidelines (Public Health England 2018, Communicable Diseases Network Australia, 2017, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 2010). Consult Medsafe data sheets for appropriate use and dosages of ciporofloxacin in children. Treatment in children should only be initiated after careful benefit ...

  • Poliovirus infection

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    ... are clear channels for questions to be answered and key messages are understood   Ensure appropriate cultural and language support is offered   Ensure appropriate clinical support is in place    Further guidance on stool sampling specifically is provided in the Testing Guidelines (external link) section below.    Routine prevention Expand all Vaccination Vaccination Polio is a vaccine preventable disease.    The inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) is part of the National Immunisation Schedule. IPV superseded the oral polio vaccine (OPV) in 2002 as the p ...

  • Plague

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    ... plague. Reporting Expand all National reporting National reporting Ensure complete case information is entered into EpiSurv (external link) . Laboratory notification follows the laboratory notification flowcharts from the  Direct Laboratory Notification of Communicable Diseases: National guidelines (external link)  (Ministry of Health 2007). Immediately notify the national protection clinical team (use Appendix 5: Escalation pathways for pathways for notification for awareness, or for escalation). The International Health Regulations (IHR) National Focal Point (NFP) in the Ministry ...

  • Cervical screening training pathways

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    ... the four NCSP Cervical Screening with HPV testing training modules at LearnOnline (external link) . Be familiar with the updated National Cervical Screening Programme Policies and Standards Section Three: Cervical Screening Services (PDF 1.8MB) (external link) and the Clinical Practice Guidelines for Cervical Screening in Aotearoa New Zealand (PDF 2.8MB) (external link) Complete a professional partnership assessment and agreement with the nominated responsible clinician. Download the learning pathway flowchart (PDF 84KB) (external link) Download the professional partnership clinical as ...

  • Diphtheria

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    ... 242–9. Communicable Disease Report. 2000. Three cases of toxigenic   Corynebacterium ulcerans   infection. CDR Weekly 10(6). ISSN 1350-9357. Farizo KM, Strebel PM, Chen RT, et al. 1993. Fatal respiratory disease due to   Corynebacterium diphtheriae : case report and review of guidelines for management, investigation, and control. Clinical Infectious Diseases 16(1): 59–68. Heymann DL (ed). 2008. Control of Communicable Diseases Manual (19th edition). Washington: American Public Health Association. Miller LW, Bickham S, Jones WL, et al. 1974. Diphtheria carriers and the effec ...