Asthma

Click the links below to view each project:

• Unichem Russell Street Hastings (achieving asthma control test targets with Māori youth, equity focus)
• Mt Eden Pharmacy and Mt Eden Correctional Facility (improving asthma management, optimising self-management)
  
  

Unichem Russell Street Hastings (achieving asthma control test targets with Māori youth, equity focus)

Project overview: Unichem Russell Street Hastings worked in partnership with local asthma foundation branch, Breathe Hawkes Bay, and local GP practice, The Doctors Hastings, to reduce respiratory disease-related hospitalisation and GP visits in Māori and Pacific children aged 0–18 years old.

• Primary care improvement case study: Childhood respiratory warrant of fitness: Unichem Russell Street, Hastings 
• Presentation from Whakakotahi learning session 1 (1.31MB, pdf)
• Presentation from Whakakotahi learning session 2 (1.28MB, pdf)
• Presentation from Whakakotahi learning session 3 (1.28MB, pdf)
• Pharmacy Today article on the project (May 2019)
• Commission news article ‘Respiratory ‘WOF’ and follow up improves Māori and Pacific children’s asthma management’ (July 2019)
• Infographic outlining the project’s results (955KB, pdf)

Mt Eden Pharmacy and Mt Eden Correctional Facility (improving asthma management, optimising self-management)

Project overview: Improving asthma management for men who will remain in custody for at least four weeks as determined by their allocated court date, optimising their self-management through written personalised action plans, reviewing guidelines and ensuring correct devices and medication.

• Presentation from Whakakotahi learning session 2 (1.6MB, pdf)