This Taranaki guidance reinforces responsibilities and behaviours expected of all healthcare professionals involved with the prescribing, monitoring and care of the patient. The purpose of this guideline is to provide seamless transfer of care between specialist and primary services.

View the 2022 Pinnacle nurse education Zoom recordings covering medicine management, standing orders, immunisations and more. This page will be updated as recordings become available. These sessions can be used for staff update/training meetings and new staff orientation packages if standing orders are relevant to the role.

POC testing equipment for RACPP (Waikato) can be purchased from Abbott Pharmaceuticals. This brochure outlines their products and current pricing. Please make contact with them and set up an account to place your orders directly.

This flow chart relates to RACPP (Waikato) and outlines the management of chest pain of suspected cardiac origin.

To save practices having multiple listings to keep updated, the Pinnacle.co.nz website now pulls all practice listings directly from Healthpoint. This page outlines how to update your Healthpoint listing.

Whakataukī (proverbs) play a large role within Maori culture. They are used as a reference point in speeches and also as guidelines spoken to others day by day. We've pulled together a variety of resources and a selection of popular whakataukī.

Waikato DHB has made a report available to PHOs illustrating the average wait times (in days) for first specialist appointments (FSA) in secondary care. Please note this is an average across all priority groups. This report will be updated monthly by Waikato DHB.

As the prevalence of chronic illness continues to increase with our aging population, remote home telehealth monitoring is emerging as a possible means of delivering care in a more cost effective and patient-centred way, while overcoming problems of inaccessibility

A reference for practices considering a new practice management system (PMS) and/or provider.