A cuppa, cookie and a natter doesn’t sound like your normal prescription, but it’s proving a winning combination for patients of St Martins Medical Practice who are attending a newly established ‘Talking Café’.

Getting busy Oxford service providers together is no mean feat, but Oxford Community Health Centre Practice Manager Sue Taaffe is leading the charge to re-establish the Oxford Provider Group.

Long-standing Community Respiratory Service volunteer Pauline Mohi was acknowledged by the respiratory clinical governance team last month.

Staff working in aged residential care (ARC) facilities in Te Waipounamu South Island are making good use of access to their residents’ up-to-date health information with more than 2,000 patient records viewed in Health Connect South (HCS) / HealthOne (H1) in July.

People with experience of chronic pain are being called on to help redesign health services to ensure there’s a range of support across community and specialist services.

Laughter is often referred to as the best medicine, which Te Tumu Waiora’s Health Improvement Practitioners were treated with at an afternoon of connection and self-care held last month at the Design Lab.

International urgent care colleagues shared their experiences and reflections on implementing a telehealth model to support triage across Urgent Care and Emergency Departments at a webinar last week.

We are seeking people living in Canterbury with a lived experience of chronic pain or people who have been a carer or parent of a person with a lived experience of chronic pain to be part of a consumer group.