President’s Message

Hello everyone and welcome to the first edition of Supply line for 2023. We are now in February and I am quite unsure where January went. I worked right through the holiday season therefore time became a bit of a blur.

For me it appears that we are surrounded by chaos in the workplace. For some time there has been no structure to our daily workloads resulting in a feeling of one step forward and three steps back. Like many of your workplaces we come in on a daily basis to a shortage of beds, shortage of staff and high acute case numbers, resulting in cancellations of elective cases. How many of you like me wish you could go back to pre- coved times when we had structure to our day.

In November 2023 Alison Stewart and I attended the WFHSS congress in Barcelona, Spain. You can read about it in this edition of Supplyline. Additionally there is an excellent poem written by member of the CSSD team from Middlemore. If you or any of your team can come up with great ideas like this I would love for you to send them in for Supplyline.

We care for each other, showing kindness and empathy in all that we do.

AUAHA

We are committed to finding future focused solutions and take personal responsibility to be better every day.

Our diversity is our strength, we back each other and work together in partnership.

We are committed to doing the right thing by ensuring equity and hauora are at the heart of everything we do.

please let me know.

Take care everyone and stay safe, Ngā

Aileen Derby Editor NZSSA Supplyline

Friday 17th February will see the executive team come together for a face to face meeting to plan out the year ahead. We will also be meeting with the team from Pharmac who want to discuss how the NZSSA can be involved in procurement of devices and what advice we can offer them.

For those of you employed by Te Whatu Ora please ensure that your quality management systems are up to date and that you are up to date with audit requirements against the standard. Auditing of our departments will happen this year, so please be sure that you are ready.

Best wishes to all

Shelagh Thomas