A kete | toolkit of resources designed to support practices integrate a practice pharmacist into the team has been launched by the Primary Care Taskforce.

The old adage – there’s no place like home – is a proverb the Integrated Respiratory team held close when working with the kaumātua | elders at Rehua Marae to design a modified Better Breathing pulmonary rehabilitation programme in August 2023.

A group of health system staff and health consumers are pooling their experience and knowledge to address capacity pressures in primary care, which will make it easier for our communities to access care when they need it.

Rangi McGlinchey (69) is grateful for the aroha of her whānau and her Te Ao Māori (Māori world) beliefs, which have given her the strength to live with chronic pain for the past 35 years.

Canterbury's general practices find having Te Tumu Waiora roles in their practices overwhelmingly positive and of great benefit to their patients and teams, a recent survey shows.

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.

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.