Funding 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.

Te 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.

There is a New Zealand-wide shortage of extended-release methylphenidate, both Concerta and Methylphenidate ER - Teva brands.

Ka Hono is a collegial support service facilitated by the Bay of Plenty / Waikato faculty of RNZCGP. It is open to all GPs (including non-faculty members) and all GP registrars in the GPEP program (years 1-3).

Small group clinical education for primary care clinicians on topics that are engaging, relevant and strategically important to the Aotearoa NZ health system. The programme runs exclusively online via Zoom and covers 5 topics across a 12-month period. Upcoming topics include frailty and legacy prescribing, menopause and chronic kidney disease.

Read the latest clinical updates for Taranaki including an alert regarding the notification of six confirmed cases of pertussis across the district in the last two weeks.

New guidance, approved by the Director of the National Public Health Service, introduces the upper age limit of 2 years for the Pre-call and Recall initiative payment for 6-week immunisations.

Effective Monday 9 September, Pathlab will be working in accordance with the 2016 British Andrology Society laboratory guidelines for post-vasectomy semen analysis. This will see a change to only performing a direct microscopy and proceed with a sperm count when only non-motile sperm are seen.

The latest guidance for health care workers who have respiratory illness published by Te Whatu Ora continue to encourage us to stay home if we are potentially infectious, to have some specific advice around COVID-19, and, the main message, "do the basics well".