Mention the word retirement to Sally Davies and she quickly responds by saying she is still working a day a week but come December that will be it.
Read moreAre you in a leadership or management role in your practice? Are you interested in the opportunity to access leadership and management training through the University of Waikato? If so, we would appreciate your feedback on the preferred delivery approach of this training.
Read moreA new Extended Care Paramedic (ECP) initiative has been launched in Northern Coromandel in response to community-identified health needs developed through locality planning and partnerships.
Read morePinnacle was a prominent contributor to the RNZCGP conference participating in several presentations and panel discussions. Congratulations to Dr Dave Maplesden on his Distinguished Fellowship and to Dr Hayley Scott who received the Eric Elder Medal.
Read moreHato Hone St John received formal notification last week from FIRST Union that members, including both ambulance personnel and Ambulance Communications Centre staff, will withdraw labour for six hours, from the start of their shifts on 27 September, and again on 30 September.
Read moreThe Clinical Informatics Award is back in its sixth year, promoting the value that clinicians bring to whānau and community in providing data and digitally enabled care. The 2024 award is open to anyone with a clinical background and an interest in clinical informatics: this can be an individual or a clinical team, so get nominating today!
Read moreRead the latest clinical updates for Taranaki including urgent joint aspirations, a new national orthopaedic service pathway and more.
Read moreUntil the end of September, two evidence-based medicine tools are available to all practices through the resources on the frontpage of Community Healthpathways: Dynamed and BMJ Best Practice.
Te Whatu Ora wants your opinion on which best serves your needs by filling in a brief survey. This is an important decision and a high response rate will be very helpful as they decide whether they can acquire one of the resources (subject to the very real fiscal constraints).
Funding of continuous glucose monitoring and automated insulin delivery begins on 1 October. Not all people living with T1D are known to the Taranaki Diabetes Integrated Team. To re-engage these whānau with the funded technology, the Pinnacle clinical diabetes specialist is available to run a query build in your practice and contact these patients to discuss changes in funding and available services for the initiation of insulin pump therapy / AID.
Read moreFunding of continuous glucose monitoring and automated insulin delivery begins on 1 October. The Waikato Regional Diabetes Service will take the lead in supporting whānau with Type 1 diabetes (T1D) with this change. Not all people living with T1D are known to the regional diabetes service. In order to re-engage these whānau with the funded technology, please do a query build of your patients with T1D so they can be informed of the localities of drop in clinics and CGM start education.
Te Whatu Ora acknowledge primary care efforts to immunise your practice population in the face of significant workforce challenges and community resistance and mistrust post-covid. Read the latest immunisation in general practice update (30 August) here.
Read moreTe Whatu Ora has received notice of further industrial action by members of the APEX union. This means that MRI and Nuclear Medicine Technologists will be undertaking further work to rule action, from 6am, Thursday 12 September to 6am, Saturday 21 September.
Read moreThere is a New Zealand-wide shortage of extended-release methylphenidate, both Concerta and Methylphenidate ER - Teva brands.
Read moreFollowing the positive feedback to our August webinar on annual fees, and in response to the 2023 workforce survey which highlighted a desire for more learning opportunities and communication from the PHO, we're launching a new quarterly webinar series.
View eventThe Ministry of Health has introduced standards for B4SC training, recommending 24 hours of initial training for new B4SC nurses. The assessments as well as supervised practice makes up for the hours uncounted. This training is for Waikato region only.
View eventThe Pan-PHO primary care diabetes team (Pinnacle, Hauraki PHO and National Hauora Coalition) is running an evening event for all North Waikato providers - all practice teams and Hauora providers from Ngāruawāhia, Huntly and Te Kauwhata region are welcome.
View eventContinuous Blood Glucose Monitoring (CGM) devices are now funded for all people with Type 1 diabetes, and other specific types of diabetes (NOT type 2 diabetes).
Risk management is a key function of best management practice, at the strategic and operational levels of your practice.