It was lights, camera, action for the shared care planning team as they presented a webinar to help colleagues from across the health system learn more about our suite of shared care plans last month.

Leaders from throughout Canterbury’s health system came together for a couple of powerful hours on Friday 19 November to listen and to learn what people are saying across the system.

Canterbury Clinical Network’s Technology Programme Manager for Shared Care Planning Gavin Young left early July to take up a Project Manager role with an international company call inMusic, which delivers hardware and software for musicians.

As things ramp up for the silly season and many of us plan a well-deserved break, our colleagues working in urgent care are preparing ways to make the festive period simpler and safer for staff, patients and their whānau.

The CCN Work Programme for 2020-21/22 has been endorsed by the Alliance Leadership Team and is now available on the CCN website.

At a time when the simple act of handing a piece of paper from one person to another is suddenly a riskier thing to do, the Canterbury Health System has taken urgent steps to remove that risk – and this is just one of a number of ways prescribing has changed in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

With COVID-19 at the forefront of everyone’s minds, the Shared Care Planning team has been exploring ways to encourage health care teams to have important conversations about medical decisions with their at risk patients.

A Hanmer Springs family is encouraging rural families to take a new approach to appointments by using technology to access specialist health appointments.