A survey has been created to gather thoughts from rangatahi / young people about improvements they would like to see made to sexual and reproductive health services in Waitaha / Canterbury.

A project which brings consumers and health providers together to co-design a new model of care for people with chronic pain held a wānanga – a forum to observe, listen and learn – last month.

More than 90 percent of Aged Residential Care (ARC) facilities across the South Island are now key players in the Health Connect South (HCS) / HealthOne (H1) space, which allows ARC teams to access their residents’ shared electronic care records.

Members of the Health Quality and Safety Commission (HQSC) tīma (team) were one of the latest to hear about the Kia Kotahi Partnership in Design framework, a values-based framework which puts people and their whānau at the centre of designing equitable health services.

Members from a range of Canterbury’s health consumer groups connected face-to-face last month, in the first stage of a plan to strengthen connection across groups and amplify the consumer voice across health and wellbeing services.

With the official arrival of summer, many of us are gearing up for a well-deserved break with whānau and friends.

The Kia Kotahi Partnership in Design (KKPID) project team have been busy the past few months socialising the co-design framework to various groups around the motu (country). The values-based framework ensures that people and their whānau are at the centre of designing equitable health services in a genuine and purposeful partnership.

For our tamariki (children), experiencing emotion, processing how it makes them feel and figuring out how to manage those feelings is a big learning curve. That’s why Mana Ake – Stronger for Tomorrow has been providing support not just for children, but for the whānau (family) who support them, and it’s proved a big hit.