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The practice management toolkit has been developed in response to the Pinnacle Workforce Survey findings from the reception and administration feedback. Some respondents found the health systems difficult to navigate, funding hard to understand and the business of general practices overwhelming.
The practice management toolkit provides tools and information to support practice managers, business managers and others involved with the management of general practice.
Risk management is a key function of best management practice, at the strategic and operational levels of your practice.
An introduction to the dashboard and details on how to get set up.
Continuous 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).
Jo Scott-Jones and Dave Maplesden discuss diverticulitis, new free resources available through Healthpathways, a financial benefits WINZ resource, and more.
We have three full-time and two part-time staff in the nurse lead space across the Pinnacle network. They work as a team to support over 450 nurses (Waikato, Lakes, Taranaki, Tairāwhiti) with a key focus on growing and supporting our nursing kaimahi (staff).
Jo Scott-Jones and Dave Maplesden discuss Heart Foundation resources, Atrial fibrillation and anticoagulation, Pharmac supply updates, and more.
Point of care testing (POCT) capability is becoming increasingly available in general practice. POCT enables rapid clinical decision-making, an increased likelihood of keeping people well and closer to home (by avoiding referral to hospital) and addresses rural inequities which may be compounded by distance and infrastructure. Pinnacle has developed guidance for quality control of POCT in general practice and a POCT adverse events monitoring system.
Jo Scott-Jones and Dave Maplesden discuss ACC Integrated Care Pathways Musculoskeletal, Amoxicillin dosing in acute otitis media, Microplastics, nanoplastics and CVD risk, and more.
Dr Jo Scott-Jones and Dr Dave Maplesden discuss adrenaline auto-injectors, a scam alert, a Goodfellow Gem about the effect of NSAIDs on post-fracture bone healing, and more.