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Primary care improvement case study: The Fono ‘Happy Skin’ project: Skin and soft tissue infections in the Tuvaluan community
The Fono initiated a quality improvement project that used a community-based public health approach with the aim of reducing the rate of SSTI by 25 percent by November 2018 in the West Auckland Tuvaluan community.
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Primary care improvement case study: Turanga Health: Tu Mahi project
A workplace wellness platform that transitions individuals with long-term conditions to whānau-centred care and responsibility in the whare.
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Primary care improvement case study: Nelson Marlborough Health: Improving medication adherence post cardiac stent
As part of a Whakakotahi improvement project, an integrated health team in Nelson Marlborough worked on how to make it easier for patients to take their life-saving medication in the year after having a cardiac stent.
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Towards quality improvement at scale in the New Zealand primary care setting: Findings from consumer and health service engagement
This document, Towards quality improvement at scale in the New Zealand primary care setting, was commissioned to help us plan how to achieve quality improvement at scale in primary care.
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Respiratory ‘WOF’ and follow up improves Māori and Pacific children’s asthma management
A Hastings community pharmacy’s project to improve asthma management in a group of Māori and Pacific children has left everyone breathing easier.
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The Fono’s Whakakotahi project an award finalist
Congratulations to Auckland health and social services organisation, The Fono, for being selected as a finalist in the inaugural New Zealand Primary Healthcare Awards | He Tohu Mauri Ora.
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Tuvaluan community drives message to improve skin infection rates
A community-driven approach has played a vital role in a project that has reduced the rate of skin and soft tissue infections among under 25-year-olds in West Auckland’s Tuvaluan community by more than 40 percent.
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Nurse-led eczema project delivers major improvement for Hamilton kids and their families
Wanting better management of her baby daughter’s severe facial eczema was behind a Hamilton practice nurse creating a clinic that is delivering great results for the practice’s under five-year-olds suffering from the painful skin condition.
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Quality improvement project improves medicines access for remote patients
Patients in remote settlements of eastern Bay of Plenty now have better access to timely and accurate medicines, thanks to a quality improvement project undertaken by the Te Whānau-ā-Apanui Community Health Centre in Te Kaha.
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Final evaluation of the Whakakotahi primary care improvement programme
Whakakotahi is one of the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s key initiatives in primary care. A final evaluation of Whakakotahi was completed by Synergia and builds on the annual interim reports completed in 2017, 2018 and 2019.