Te Kōkiri: The Mental Health and Addiction Action Plan 2006-2015 Last Publication Date: 02 Aug 2006 Te Kōkiri: The Mental Health and Addiction Action Plan has been developed to directly implement Te Tāhuhu – Improving Mental Health 2005-2015: The Second New Zealand…
Nurses and Their Work in Primary Health Care Last Publication Date: 02 Jul 2006 One hundred and sixty seven nurses associated with medical practitioners in general practices and A&M clinics completed questionnaires on the different activities they undertook, and the…
The Ministry of Health’s Hospital Throughput 2003/2004 Report Last Publication Date: 02 May 2006 This report provides hospital discharges by age, gender, ethnicity, socio-economic deprivation, admission, and discharge types. The report also includes data on the average length of stay,…
Universal Newborn Hearing Screening for New Zealand 2005 Last Publication Date: 02 Feb 2006 This report contains the findings and recommendations of the Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Advisory Group (UNHSAG) to the National Screening Unit (NSU) regarding high-level policy and…
Working on the frontline: Sue Lightfoot discusses the impacts of secondary traumatic stress Last Publication Date: 01 Dec 2005 Social Work Now, Issue 32, pages 28-32. There has been increasing attention over the past several years to the effects on staff of working in emergency situations,…
The story so far: Peter Shaw, Kathy Fielding and Jessie Henderson outline the development of the On TRACC service Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2005 Social Work Now, Issue 31, pages 24-27. Since November 2003 the Transcultural Care Centre and Intersectoral Service for Children and Young People from Refugee Backgrounds and Their…
Meeting the challenge: Elements in Reducing and Managing Risk in Social Work Practice Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2005 Social Work now, Issue 31, pages 8-11. In a number of high-profile cases involving the death of a child, it has been revealed that social workers handling…
National Health Emergency Plan: Guiding Principles for Emergency Management Planning in the Health and Disability Sector Last Publication Date: 02 Jun 2005 The Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002 replaced the Civil Defence Act 1983. This has changed the emphasis in emergency planning in the health sector from ‘hospital-based…
Communications Centres Service Centre Independent External Review - Final Report Last Publication Date: 12 May 2005 The operational effectiveness and efficiency of the New Zealand Police Communications Centres Service Centre (CCSC) have been questioned following a number of high profile incidents. As…
Report on Secondary Teacher Workload Study Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2004 This research, carried out by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) in 2004, looks at the hours worked, the kinds of work performed and the…
