Funding for a programme which aims to support people recently released from prison to re-engage with their general practice in Canterbury has been extended.

Renee Noble has joined the CCN Leadership Team to ensure a community nursing perspective contributes to decisions about CCN priorities and recommendations for improving equitable access to health care services.

Jennifer Voice is feeling well cared for this winter, thanks to the support of the Care Coordination Nursing team at Riccarton Clinic.

Staff working in aged residential care facilities across the South Island are finding it easier to make informed decisions about their residents’ care with newly granted access to Health Connect South / HealthOne.

A short-term project to capture successful elements of our system’s response to COVID-19 and use them as building blocks to enhance coordination and integration of health and social care for our wider community is underway.

A project to develop a new model of care for people living with chronic pain has been given the green light. The new model will be co-designed by people living with chronic pain – a long term condition which often starts as an injury, accident, or illness. They’ll work with primary care and specialist clinicians to develop clinical and social supports for people suffering from chronic pain in the community.  

The team behind Canterbury's Better Breathing Programme has been thinking outside the box for ways to support some of our most at-risk members of the community - people with long-term breathing conditions like Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).

We’ve all heard the saying you can’t pour from an empty cup, meaning that for us to effectively take care of others we must first take care of ourselves. Sometimes this is easier said than done, but for our colleagues on the health frontline, it’s more important now than ever.