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Te Whatu Ora - COVID-19 Care in the Community update for primary care

mid-September 2022. Some stock may remain in the supply chain. They expect their next shipment to arrive in late September 2022. o To help make the existing stock last longer, we have put these tablets on monthly dispensing from 1 October 2022. The film-coated tablets are not affected by this issue (Onrex brand). • Nutricia foods products: Supply issue affecting multiple products o Most of the supply issues affecting Nutricia special foods products have been resolved. There will however continue to be supply issues for some products throughout 2022. • COVID-19 Care in the Community o Primary care has been invited to join the rollout of the COVID-19 Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) medicine Evusheld from today, 3 October 2022. Information about the rollout and a claiming guide was shared with the sector last week. Please contact COVID19CareintheCommunity@health.govt.nz with any questions. o Updated clinical information about COVID-19 reinfection, rebound, persistent infection and long COVID has been circulated to support primary care clinicians with COVID-19 patients. This information is also available on your local HealthPathways page. • COVID-19 Clinical Care Module update o The Care in the Community support team has reduced its operating hours to Monday to Friday between 9am to 5.30pm, and will be available to help you with any CitC, BCMS/CCCM or NCTS feedback, questions, or issues during those hours. They can be emailed at CITC@contacttracing.health.nz during these hours. If you have queries or concerns regarding these programmes on the weekend, the NCTS service desk will continue to operate on Saturday and Sunday and can be reached via ncts.servicedesk@health.govt.nz or 0800 223 987. • COVID-19 response o Manatū Hauora – Ministry of Health’s website has published a report, COVID-19 Mortality in Aotearoa New Zealand: Inequities in Risk, which showed being up-to-date with vaccination is the single best way to reduce the risk of dying from COVID-19 and age is the single biggest determinant in the risk of death from COVID-19. o Guidance for health professionals about mask-wearing in healthcare settings was updated last week. New ‘Please wear a mask here’ posters can be downloaded from Unite Against COVID-19’s resource toolkit.