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…
Opportunities for alcohol and other drug advice in the GP consultation Last Publication Date: 30 Jun 2009 This report explores brief interventions in the primary care setting in relation to drug use. It provides insights into the complexity of these interactions and has relevance…
Secondary Analysis of two Data subsets, Youth and Asian, from the 2006/07 Gaming and Betting Activities Survey - Researcher/Provider Initiated Research 2008/09 Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 2009 This project will conduct analysis of the Asian and youth subsets of the 2006/07 Gaming and Betting Activities survey to: identify correlates for risk and protective factors…
Review of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003: Report to the Minister of Health by the Director-General of Health Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 2009 Section 171 of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (the Act) requires the Director-General of Health to review the operation of the Act three years…