Inquiry Report: Progress in delivering publicly funded scheduled services to patients Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 2011 New Zealand will always have more patients than our publicly funded non-urgent medical and surgical services (scheduled/elective services) can cope with at any one time. Common…
District Nursing Service Development in New Zealand Last Publication Date: 30 May 2011 This report highlights the range of creative and responsive district nursing service delivery models. The report goes deeper into four case studies demonstrating how district nurses…
Community Cancer Support Services Pilot Project Evaluation Last Publication Date: 30 May 2011 In 2008, the Ministry of Health commissioned Health Outcomes International to evaluate three community cancer support pilots. The pilot projects aimed at reducing inequalities in cancer…
Rheumatic fever: a systematic review of the literature on health literacy, overcrowding and rheumatic fever Last Publication Date: 02 May 2011 To assist the Ministry in the development of this programme the New Zealand Guidelines Group (NZGG) has been asked to undertake a systematic review in two…
District Nursing Services in New Zealand in 2010 Last Publication Date: 02 May 2011 This report identifies 65 separate district nursing services offering a wide range of home, clinic, and community based health care services usually seven days a week.…
ASD guideline supplementary paper: pharmacological interventions Last Publication Date: 01 May 2011 This is a paper the provides supplementary evidence and recommendations to do with the pharmacological interventions: melatonin, aripiprazole and citalopram.The paper should be read as part…
Targeting Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Last Publication Date: 02 Apr 2011 In July 2009 the Government demonstrated its commitment to reducing the incidence and disease impact of diabetes and CVD by introducing a health target of 'Better…
Targeting Shorter Waits For Cancer Treatment Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2011 Health targets are a set of national performance measures specifically designed to improve the performance of health services. They provide a focus for action.The impact they…
ASD Diagnostic Instruments Review Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2011 This review summarises diagnostic instruments that can be used to aid expert clinical judgment by teams diagnosing ASD.
Evaluation of the Māori Oral Health Providers Project Last Publication Date: 02 Mar 2011 In 2007 five Māori health providers received one-off Ministry funding to purchase their capital requirements to deliver oral health services (the Project). Four providers built Mobile…