PRIMARY CARE CLINICAL DIGEST | 9 February 2024

PRIMARY CARE CLINICAL DIGEST FEBRUARY 9 2024 What’s in this issue?

Immunisation Pānui February 1 2024 View online Consultation: Update on Proposal to enable many Childhood Vaccinations to be given in Pharmacies – further feedback required View online Ruruku - Te Whatu Ora and Te Aka Whai Ora View online ACC Primary Care Provider Update View online Member’s Article Published in the Journal of Primary Health Care Article here

Goodfellow Unit Webinars, Podcast, Short Course and Symposium March 23/24 2024

Immunisation Pānui February 1 2024 Consultation: Update on Proposal to enable many Childhood Vaccinations to be given in Pharmacies – further feedback required Ruruku - Te Whatu Ora and Te Aka Whai Ora ACC Primary Care Provider Update Member’s Article Published in the Journal of Primary Health Care Goodfellow Unit Webinars, Podcast, Short Course and Symposium March 23/24 2024 Te Whatu Ora Te Waipounamu Clinical Advisor and Clinical Integrator Roles Invitation to Participate in PhD Research Updates for Primary Care Prescribers February 2 2024 / Updates for Pharmacists February 9 2024 Top Weekend Viewing Please view the attached link from Te Whatu Ora to access their latest Immunisation Pānui.

The attached link will take you to Pharmac’s proposal to remove Xpharm restriction from some childhood vaccines on the Pharmaceutical Schedule and the opportunity to provide feedback.

The Latest News And Updates From Te Whatu Ora And Te Aka Whai Ora can be viewed via the attached link.

To view the current ACC provider update please see attached link.

One of our member’s, Carol Atmore, has had her paper published in The Journal of Primary Health Care. The paper is on ‘The costs, barriers and enablers of providing PGY2 placements in general practice in Aotearoa New Zealand: a mixed-methods study’. If you are interested in this article, see the attached copy.

Webinars: Healthier Clinicians February 13 Register here Hepatitis elimination and management March 12 Register here Podcast: Psychiatric aspects of Parkinson’s Podcast and resources here Short course: Could this be sepsis? Learn more

Te Whatu Ora Te Waipounamu Clinical Advisor and Clinical Integrator Roles

Invitation to Participate in PhD Research Info Sheet here

Symposium: To be held March 23/24 2024 in Auckland. See programme and registration details at Symposium | Goodfellow Unit Te Whatu Ora are recruiting for Clinical Advisors to be part of their Te Waipounamu commissioning team. These are important roles that will support their system redesign. The system design part of commissioning has four work programme areas - starting well, living well, mentally well and ageing well. The roles are to support each of these, along with a Clinical Advisor for Rural Health. Te Whatu Ora are open to a range of primary and community related experience and disciplines, spread around Te Waipounamu, part time or job shares in some cases.

The clinical advisor role for starting well, ageing well and rural health can be viewed here and applications close February 15.

The clinical advisor for mentally well advert will be available in a few weeks plus the clinical integrator roles for the Te Waipounamu localities team within commissioning. These are local clinical leadership roles that will support our communities and local connections For further information, please contact Dr Lucinda Whiteley 021 0263 5153 or Lucinda.Whiteley@tewhatuora.govt.nz Sharon Macpherson is a nurse practitioner, senior lecturer and current PhD student who is in the interview phase of her research at Waikato University.

Sharon is keen to speak with General Practitioners to get their views on nurse practitioners within primary care settings.

The interviews are 30 minutes in length and recorded via Teams for transcribing. Sharon has had several general practitioner interviews to date but not enough to provide balance and a general practitioner viewpoint. The interviews will generate themes for a wider survey later this year.

The interview questions are as follows: Can you tell me about your role within your organisation as a medical practitioner? What types of patients conditions, age groups do you tend to see or not see within your employment?

Can you tell me what you see are the differences and similarities of the nurse practitioner role from medical roles in terms of: presenting complaint ie: are some patient PC better for NP or Medical Practitioner? population group patients you believe are better served by nurse practitioners or medical practitioners and why Patient complexity has been referred to in literature for both nurse practitioners and medical practitioners. In terms of a medical practitioner patient what does a complex patient look like?

Updates for Primary Care Prescribers February 2 2024 View online Updates for Pharmacists February 9 2024 View online Top Weekend Viewing

Literature often refers to ambiguity of the nurse practitioner role due to the word “nurse”. How do you believe the word ‘nurse’ in nurse practitioner enhances or inhibits the ability for a nurse practitioner to provide health care?

Being a medical practitioner in New Zealand, where and what do you see the future of nurse practitioners can/could and should look like in terms of: Patient presentation, Unmet need Impact of increasing health outcomes For further information see the attached sheet or contact Sharon on 027 535 8248 if you have any questions.

See attached links to view recent updates from Pharmac.

Going for a bit of fun this week, here are some classic quirky comedic 80s/90s films that are sure to put a smile on your dial as we all get back into post-holiday work.

Galaxy Quest (Netflix) - The alumni cast of a space opera television series have to play their roles as the real thing when an alien race needs their help. However, they also have to defend both Earth and the alien race from a reptilian warlord. View trailer Mars Attacks (Prime Video) - Dale narrowly survives an assassination attempt by a Martian disguised as a woman, who infiltrates the White House. Following the assassination attempt, the Martians commence a fullscale invasion of Earth, attacking major cities throughout the world. View trailer Airplane! (Prime Video/Apple TV) - Ted Striker, a former pilot who has a fear of flying, finds himself burdened with the responsibility of landing a plane safely when most of the crew and passengers fall sick due to food poisoning. View trailer