Suspected Cancer in Primary Care: Guidelines for investigation, referral and reducing ethnic disparities Last Publication Date: 02 Sep 2009 The guideline aims to alert primary care practitioners to features that should raise their suspicion of cancer, so they can refer patients early for further investigation.The…
Evaluation of the Primary Mental Health Initiatives: Summary Report Last Publication Date: 02 Aug 2009 The Report describes the evaluation of the first 26 of the Ministry of Health’s funded Primary Mental Health initiatives which was conducted between June 2005 and…
Environmental Health Indicators for New Zealand 2008 Last Publication Date: 02 Aug 2009 The report focuses on air quality, water quality and border health protection and highlights environmental health trends and has been published annually since 2004. The 2008 report…
Foundations of Excellence: Building Infrastructure for Medical Education and Training Last Publication Date: 02 Aug 2009 In September 2008 the Medical Training Board (MTB) released a series of documents on the medical workforce and on the need to achieve integration and coordination…
Intentional Self-harm Hospitalisations 2007 (provisional) Last Publication Date: 02 Aug 2009 This release presents and summarises admissions to hospital for intentional self-harm during 2007, sourced from the New Zealand National Minimum Dataset. The data is provisional.
A review of how the training of the New Zealand health workforce is planned and funded: a proposal for a reconfiguration of the Clinical Training Agency Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2009 New Zealand has significant problems in recruiting, training and retaining adequate numbers of appropriate health and disability services workers. This is most likely to worsen.The planning…
Treating People Well: Report of the Director-General of Health’s Commission on the Resident Medical Officer Workforce Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2009 The RMO Commission was established to investigate the issues facing the resident doctor workforce and make recommendations on the medical workforce needed to deliver services now…
Cancer: New Registrations and Deaths 2005 – Revised edition Last Publication Date: 02 Jul 2009 This annual statistical publication collates and analyses data on primary malignant tumour cases diagnosed in New Zealand, as reported to the New Zealand Cancer Registry.The NZ…
Report on New Zealand Cost-of-Illness Studies on Long-Term Conditions Last Publication Date: 01 Jul 2009 This report identifies and summarises economic impact reports on health and societal costs of long-term conditions in New Zealand. The author identified 30 New Zealand-specific publications, articles…
Senior Doctors in New Zealand: Securing the Future Last Publication Date: 01 Jul 2009 The Director-General of Health's Commission on senior medical and dental officers employed by district health boards was set up in 2008 to investigate a sustainable and…
