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COVID-19: Aged care providers

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Recommended COVID-19 testing advice Recommended COVID-19 Testing advice for the health sector (including Aged Residential Care facilities) and general population can be found here: Recommended COVID-19 Testing advice COVID-19 Chapter of the Communicable Disease Control Manual There is specific guidance for clinical leaders and managers in the health sector to manage the return to work of healthcare workers who have been infected with, or exposed to, COVID-19, as well as those who have acute respiratory symptoms but have tested negative for COVID-19. See COVID-19: Return to work guidance

COVID-19: Pharmacy

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General information Your local pharmacist is available in your community to support your medicine supply and information needs. Medicine supply in communities has had some changes and restrictions resulting from COVID-19. These restrictions were intended to minimise any impacts on supply caused by potential international supply and manufacturing disruptions. However, medicines are sourced from several countries through international agreements, and our medicine supply is secure. There is no need to stockpile medicines. Currently New Zealanders can still get the medicines they need. Many

2. Processes for safe immunisation

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... 44AB of the Medicines Regulations 1984 (see A3.6 ). The vaccines a person may administer will vary depending on the lawful basis upon which they can administer a vaccine or vaccines (see A3.6 ). 2.1. Pre-vaccination The ‘Immunisation standards for vaccinators’ and the ‘Guidelines for organisations storing vaccines and/or offering immunisation services’ apply to the delivery of all Schedule vaccines and those not on the Schedule. See Appendix 3 . The vaccinator is responsible for ensuring all the vaccines they are handling and administering have been stored at ...

Mental Health Infrastructure Programme

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... two new buildings at Hillmorton Hospital. These house the specialist mental health services formerly located at the Princess Margaret Hospital (the new facilities feature in the video at the top of this page). The Programme bases its designs on the best-practice Australasian Health Facility Guidelines. The overarching design principles specific to Aotearoa New Zealand are contained in the Design Guidance Note, which supplements the Australasian Health Facility Guidelines, and which includes kaupapa Māori design features such as ātea, wharenui and wharekai ― to enable manākitanga, pōwh ...

Expert Advisory Group for the National Breastfeeding Strategy

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... tamariki ; General Manager Women’s Health Action; Consumer Member of the National Maternity Monitoring Group; Member of Northern Breastfeeding Network; Co-Chair National Breastfeeding Networking Group; Member of Maternal and Child Health Service Alliance; National Induction of Labour Guidelines Group Consumer Advisor, ON TRACK Research Prioritisation Project Ranking Group; CertPubHlth Janine Pinkham La Leche League New Zealand (LLLNZ) National Coordinator; BFHI Assessor; Waitaha Primary Health Peer Support Administrator Jesse Solomon Portfolio Manager Women’s, Child a ...

COVID-19: Personal Protective Equipment Central Supply

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Central Supply of PPE overview Since April 2020, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and some consumables for New Zealand’s COVID-19 response has been sourced and distributed as part of a national coordinated approach. This national coordinated approach has ensured PPE supplies and some consumables could be prioritised to areas most in need during the COVID-19 pandemic, that there was equitable access to PPE across the health and disability sector, and overall management of supplies was at a national level. Principles of Supply have guided Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora's (Health NZ) &nbs

Available APIs: info for developers

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Contact tracing APIs Exposure event notifications This feed allows authorised developers to receive a list of Exposure Events of Interest (EEOI). These events are instances where people may have come into contact with COVID-19. An EEOI will contain a location identified as a Global Location Number (GLN), a time window, and any other relevant data so that appropriate action can be taken. Depending on the type of solution, there will be two possible actions: 1. Contact alerts A contact alert will be sent notifying an individual that they have potentially been in contact with COVID-19 by be

Screening eligibility and funding

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Who should be screened? People should be encouraged to participate in the NCSP if they are a wāhine/woman, or a person with a cervix, aged 25 – 69 who: has ever had intimate skin-to-skin contact or any sexual activity (even if they haven’t been sexually active for a long time) Has only had non-penetrative sex (i.e. oral sex, sharing sex toys) Is straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, or queer Is transgender, gender diverse, or non-binary, and has a cervix Has only been with one sexual partner Has had the HPV vaccination or not&n

Health record standards

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... list of COVID-19 symptoms, refer to the Ministry’s Clinical criteria for COVID-19. The creation of a SNOMED CT New Zealand Reference set for COVID-19 symptoms is under development. This will be released in the SNOMED CT New Zealand Edition in April 2022. Case definition and clinical testing guidelines for COVID-19 Guidance for health professionals to identify and test those individuals who may have COVID-19. - Read more Emergency Care Emergency Care HISO 10048 Emergency Care Data Standard Health New Zealand has set standards for improved recording of emergency department visits. For every e ...

Updates from the Mental Health and Addiction directorate

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Updates 26 June 2023: Update on progress towards implementing a mental wellbeing approach (external link) 28 April 2023: New guidance for mental health and addiction system and services 14 April 2023: Guidelines for reducing and eliminating seclusion and restraint under the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992 (external link) 5 April 2023: Mental health and wellbeing needs of children and young people involved with Oranga Tamariki (external link) 6 March 2023: Work to transform the approach to wellbeing in Aotearoa (external link) 30 Janua ...

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