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Welcome to another
edition of the Nelson Bays Primary Health fortnightly
newsletter.
Nelson Bays
Primary Health News:
Staff Vacancy: Community Nutrition Team
Member - 0.5 FTE
 Nelson Bays Primary Health is seeking a skilled and experienced community nutrition team member for a fixed term contract. This part-time role will work alongside the current team of two dietitians to provide nutrition advice; including lifestyle chronic disease prevention and management to workforce, community providers and the enrolled population. An important aspect of the role is focusing on working with Maori throughout programme planning and implementation. A tertiary nutrition qualification is required. Closing Date is 3rd June 2009.
More information is available at: www.bewell.org.nz/vacancies
Primary
Health News:
The following information is of particular relevance to
GPs, Primary Health Care Nurses and other health care providers
throughout the region.
Smokefree Hikoi
Thursday 28th
May
The
Nelson Smokefree Project Team invites all interested in a Smokefree
Environment to join our Hikoi On Thursday May 28. We will meet in
Wakatu Square (behind Nelson City Council) at 12.00 noon. We plan to
hikoi along Trafalgar Street finishing at Nelson Marlborough
Institute of Technology. Please come and:
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Celebrate those smokers who have
quit;
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Support those attempting to quit;
and
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Encourage our young people to ‘don’t
start’
For more information please contact:
Miraka Norgate
Health Promotion: Smokefree & Auahi Kore
Ph
5461543
or
Averil West
Heart Health Advocate
Ph
5457112
Professional
Development:
ATTENTION: Medical
Practitioners
 Chronic Disease Management, Managing Stable
Angina,
Supporting
Self Management in Angina
Wednesday 10th June 2009
Seminar Room,
Nelson Bays Primary Health
New Street, Nelson
12.15pm light
lunch will be served
12.30 – 2pm Lecture
Presenter: Dr Gill Furze
Senior
Research Fellow, British Heart Foundation Care and Education
Research Group, University of York
Download
more information/registration here
The Nelson Marlborough Primary
Health Care Nursing Leadership Forum
 11 June 2009 - 09:30 – 16:30 pm
The Honest
Lawyer, Monaco, Nelson
Morning and Afternoon Tea and Lunch
provided
As we move towards developing the new
Primary Health Care Nursing Advisory Group, we have a wonderful
opportunity to hear from some nationally recognised nurse
leaders from around the country.
If you are interested in attending please download
the information sheet.
PATHS (Providing Access to Health
Solutions)
 PATHS has now been running for over two years,
and thank you to everyone who has supported PATHS. The service
is for anyone who is currently on the
Sickness Benefit or the Invalids Benefit and have an unmet physical
and/or mental health need. PATHS aims to remove, reduce or
manage participants health issues so they can return to the
workforce.
Some of the things that PATHS has paid
for: Varicose Veins surgery, Carpal Tunnel Surgery, Specialist
appointments, Dentures, Counseling/psychologist assessments, Life
Coaches, Acupuncture, Gym programmes (surgical interventions must be
greater than 6 months on the waiting list at the DHB).
If you have a patient who is on SB or IB
benefits, and is eager to return to work, but is waiting for a
health service to provide the necessary assistance, then perhaps
PATHS could help.
If you have any questions please contact
Jo Perrett – PATHS Health Coordinator on (03) 5487630 or 021 906992.
Referrals can also be fax directly to us on (03) 548 7630 or
Karen Jenner – PATHS Community Mental Health Coordinator 03 546 9997
or 027 301 0474
A Referral
Form is available here.
Business
Skills Training
This month BDC are launching their ‘Riding the Wave’ series of
workshops to help small and medium enterprises in the region. BDC provide training to small and medium businesses on business skills. This training is fully funded by NZ Trade and Enterprise and medical centres, for example, would be eligible for this training.
For
more information about this download the information
sheet.
Otago
Medical Students’ ‘Early Community Contact
Programme’
This year during the week 8th June,
as many of you know through your involvement, 3rd year medical
students are being placed within communities across the South Island
to examine healthcare in a community setting. Three separate groups
will be visiting the Golden Bay, Motueka and Nelson communities.
 The students find this an excellent experience
and in many cases find it a “revelation” with regard to health
care and life in rural communities generally. As we continue to face
challenges in drawing health professionals into community and
general practice settings this component of their training is
invaluable as demonstrated in the following quotes from students
last year:
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“After talking to so many amazing
people, we changed our attitude towards rural places…. Some of us
really started to think of getting into rural health
care”
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“maybe if we could work to cultivate the
community focused healthcare system seen in Western Southland
[nationally], we could influence the rest of the world, just as
those small towns have influenced this big city girl”
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“I learnt that a community approach and
the good will of people are ultimately what makes health systems
effective”
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“…Nelson had a surprising impact on my
attitudes towards healthcare… Where larger centers function on a
impersonal model of tertiary care, these smaller community centers
aim to cater to the individual and provide primary care far more
often… where the individual has full control of their
lives”
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“…the rural environment actually
facilitated social cohesion… it changed my perspective on rural
health practice… I can see how interactive and rewarding it could
be”
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“Healthcare is much broader than the
medical aspect that I have always seen it as and what we focus on
at University. In fact it involves every aspect of one’s life… a
totally holistic approach. This is a revelation to me. We must
involve the community because it’s the community in which we live,
that we get sick in and that we heal in.”
At the end
of the visit students do a presentation back to their community
and anyone is welcome to attend. This year’s presentations
are:
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Nelson Community & Whanau, Midday Thursday
11th June, Salvation Army Rooms.
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Motueka
at Community House 5:30pm Thursday 11th June, Deck’s
Reserve.
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Golden
Bay at Community Workers 4pm on Thursday 11th
June
For more information
Motueka contact Glenn Thomas glenn.thomas@nelsonpho.org.nz
regards Nelson and Motueka groups or Wendy Earle Heartlands@gbwct.org.nz
regards the Golden Bay group.
Other
Notices and Links:
The following information may be of interest to all Primary Health Care providers, community based groups and those interested in wellness throughout the region.
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