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• Central and Southern workshops engage communities on mental health and addiction quality improvement

  Central and Southern workshops engage communities on mental health and addiction quality improvement

  24 Aug 2017, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement

  Consumers, family/whānau and health providers from across the southern and central regions came together earlier this month at the first two mental health and addiction quality improvement workshops.

• Tackling diabetes in the Hutt Valley

  Tackling diabetes in the Hutt Valley

  21 Aug 2017, Primary Care

  Primary health organisation Te Awakairangi Health Network and HUCHS received support from the Commission to undertake a diabetes improvement project. It is one of the three successful initiatives supported by the Commission’s Whakakotahi programme.

• Ensuring a safety net of care after a heart attack

  Ensuring a safety net of care after a heart attack

  21 Aug 2017, Primary Care

  It takes a village to look after a patient following an acute coronary event and that’s what Nelson Marlborough Health (Nelson Marlborough District Health Board) cardiology services and their extended community team are aiming to achieve.

• For our whānau, for our community - building a system of care to reduce gout

  For our whānau, for our community - building a system of care to reduce gout

  21 Aug 2017, Primary Care

  Gout is an equity issue. The suffering this condition causes is avoidable and differences between people and populations can be remedied.