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What's new on our website

The latest updates to this website are listed below:

July 2009

3 July: Senior Doctors in New Zealand: Securing the Future
The Commission's report provides a comprehensive summary and analysis of the senior medical and dental workforce, and the Ministry has accepted and begun implementing all 13 of the Commission's recommendations.

1 July: Health Targets 2009/10
With effect from today (1 July) there will be six new targets instead of the previous set of ten.

June 2009

24 Jun: Immunisation eLearning website launched
A unique website designed to help midwives, undergraduate nurses and childbirth educators to quickly and easily find useful information and resources about immunisation in New Zealand.

11 Jun: A Summary of the Improving Patient Pathways – Diagnostic Pilots (PDF, 119 KB)
A summary of fourteen diagnostic pilots that were undertaken in District Health Boards between May 2008 and January 2009. Contact details for the pilots are also included.

9 Jun: Screening Level Risk Characterisation for Mercury Exposure from Compact Fluorescent Lamps
The purpose of the report is to provide a screening level risk characterisation of mercury released from breakage of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs).

4 Jun: Review of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003-Report to the Minister of Health by the Director-General of Health
The Director-General of Health has recently completed a review of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 and reported his findings to the Minister of Health.

2 Jun: Roles and Responsibilities for Supporting Disabled Children and Young People under the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989
This guideline supports the principles outlined in the memorandem of understanding (MoU) between Child, Youth and Family and the Health and Disability National Services Directorate at the Ministry of Health. It provides professionals working within Child, Youth and Family, the Ministry of Health and needs assessment and service co-ordination (NASC) organisations with guidance on how to apply the MoU.

2 Jun: Tobacco Trends 2008: A brief update of tobacco use in New Zealand
This report provides an overview of current smoking and tobacco consumption among New Zealanders over time, and presents some data from the 2008 New Zealand Tobacco Use Survey

2 Jun: Methodology Report for the 2008 New Zealand Tobacco Use Survey
This methodology report details the procedures and protocols followed to ensure the New Zealand Tobaco Use Survey produces the high-quality and robust data expected of official statistics.

May 2009

29 May: Certification of Healthcare Services - Information on Certification Audits
Over the coming months, summaries of certification audits for rest homes will be made available in the Certification of Healthcare Services section.

28 May: Statement of Intent 2009-2012
The Statement of Intent tells the Ministry of Health's overall performance story for the period 2009 to 2012.

27 May: The Investigation and Surveillance of Poisonings and Hazardous Substances Injuries: Guidelines for Public Health Units
Guidance for public health staff, on the systematic recording data on chemical complaints and incidents, to investigate alleged incidents, provide evidence for enforcement action, facilitate epidemiological research, and assist with the provision of feedback, on local issues around chemical injuries, to district health boards.

27 May: A Focus on Problem Gambling: Results of the 2006/07 New Zealand Health Survey
This report presents the key findings about problem gambling and gambling-related harm in the New Zealand population, from the 2006/07 New Zealand Health Survey.

26 May: National serosurvey of vaccine preventable diseases
The aim of the study was to estimate the seroprevalence of a range of vaccine preventable infections in New Zealand. This includes diseases that are vaccinated against in the National Immunisation Schedule.

26 May: Health Targets Quarter Two 2008/09 report
Summaries on progress in Quarter Two 2008/09 for each Health Target and more detailed information (eg, graphs and their source data) are now available.

22 May: Problem Gambling Resource for Local Government
Problem Gambling Resource for Local Government - this is a new resource designed to assist territorial authorities with their Class 4 ('pokie machine') and Totalisator Agency Board (TAB) gambling venue policy reviews.

15 May: Human Tissue - Factsheets on the consent process for the collection and use of human tissue added.

12 May: Health Targets 2009/10 - Questions and Answers
From 1 July 2009 there will be six new targets instead of the current set of ten. The six Health Targets are a more focused and simple set that have both short-term and long-term achievable health gains.

12 May: Chief Nurse Newsletter on International Nurses Day

12 May: Nursing Developments in Primary Health Care: 2001-2007 - A Summary
A summary of the national stocktake of nursing services in New Zealand secondary schools.

12 May: Nursing Services in New Zealand Secondary Schools - A Summary
This report outlines the development of primary health care nursing in New Zealand since the introduction of the Primary Health Care Strategy in 2001.

7 May: Cancer Connections, Autumn 2009
The latest issue of the Cancer Connections newsletter is now available.

6 May: New Zealand Cardiovascular Guidelines Handbook: A Summary Resource for Primary Care Practitioners - 2009 Edition (www.nzgg.org.nz)
This Handbook is an updated revision of the original Handbook published in 2005. The Handbook and related poster can be viewed via the link above on the New Zealand Guidelines Group website.

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