With the change to indici claiming for some services, the eligibililty criteria is automated wherever possible. Find out how to adding the patient’s domicile DHB to their enrolment page to ensure they are recognised as eligible.

National Bowel Screening Programme resources including the clinical Zoom recording and quick reference guide for primary healthcare teams.

The quarterly patient experience survey (PES) is the biggest health survey in New Zealand and is a great way of getting feedback from patients. Read all the need-to-know information about successfully running the survey here.

N95 masks are recommended for clinicians to use whenever they feel at higher risk of contracting COVID-19 or any other airborne infectious disease such as measles.

In Aotearoa, people have differences in health that are not only avoidable but unfair and unjust. Equity recognises different people with different levels of advantage require different approaches and resources to get equitable health outcomes.

This year there is an overall focus on equity through the plan for general practice. As we move towards a different way of measuring quality, we have made the decision to roll over the 2021-2022 goals over for the next 12 months. In addition we are making a small change to ensure there is a small amount of funding regularly going to practices to support quality activities.

There are almost a quarter of a million people in New Zealand diagnosed with diabetes and another 100,000 who have it but don't know.

A standing order is a written instruction issued by a medical practitioner, nurse practitioner or dentist. It authorises a specified person or class of people (e.g. registered nurses) who do not have prescribing rights to administer and/or supply specified medicines and some controlled drugs.

A guide for clinical management of type 2 diabetes, including information from a variety of sources. The guide is intended to support nurses at all levels to develop their knowledge and clinical reasoning in diabetes care.