Health Quality & Safety Commission NZ

Family Violence Death Review Committee Fifth Report

The Health Quality & Safety Commission (the Commission) welcomes this ambitious fifth report from the Family Violence Death Review Committee  (the Committee).

This report challenges us to think differently about family violence so system reforms can bring sustainable change.

Importantly, the report provides direction for significantly reducing family violence through the development of an integrated response. This involves agencies, organisations and practitioners working together to provide safe, high-quality and appropriate support and services to people who need them.

The report puts those people at the centre of the system, and asks us to put their needs first.

To read more click here for the report

Also view Figure 1 & Figure 2

Youth Health Newsletter

Latest Trends in Youth Health and Wellbeing

Vol 17, Issue 1, Feb 2016

This issue

• Counties Manukau Children's Team Launching in March
  
• Children’s Team In Practice
  
• Helping Young People End Mental Illness Discrimination
  
• Is Gambling a Problem for New Zealand Young People?
  
• Parris Goebel Wants Counties Manukau Smokefree
  
• App Supports Understanding of Mental Illness
  
• Library and Children's Health Hub Launched
  
• Join Our Team!
  
• Getting Help: Preventing Youth Suicide
  
• Education and Training 2016
  
• New Books and Resources
  

To view the Newsletter click here

Hear from inspiring speakers and take away practical skills to positively impact youth health and development! 

Registrations are now open for the Collaborative Trust Hui -
the Hui will focus on developing skills for :

                      - Enriching Wellbeing in Self and Others,
                      - Enhancing Youth Health and Development,
                      - Accessing, Understanding and Implementing Research
                        & Evaluation.

Full details here. PDF flier here.

*EARLY BIRD REGISTRATIONS CLOSING SOON - Register now to receive the discounted pricing.

Click here to read more

Expressions of Interest for a new, part time, fixed term role to provide strategic project management to the New Zealand National Clinical Network Secretariat. The Secretariat supports the development, implementation and consolidation of a range of national clinical networks.  The PSNZ contract term with the Ministry of Health (MOH) is through to 30 June 2017 and details of network developments can be viewed at www.starship.org.nz/for-health-professionals/national-child-and-youth-clinical-networks/

 
A background paper on the CN development is available from Denise Tringham – denise@paediatrics.org.nz
 
Timeline – EOIs to be received by the PSNZ Secretariat before 5pm, Wednesday 16 March 2016.
 
For further information please contact Mollie Wilson, CEO, PSNZ, mollie@healthnetworks.co.nz
 
Kind regards
Denise
 
Denise Tringham
Paediatric Society of NZ
PO Box 22 234, Wellington 6441
Phone (04) 938 4827
Fax (04) 976 4827
E-mail: denise@paediatrics.org.nz
Web:  www.paediatrics.org.nz
Health of our children:  Wealth of our Nation

Goodfellow Symposium 2016

Thank you to those who have registered to attend the Symposium.

If you haven't done so yet, you can register below:

Register now

The 2016 Goodfellow Symposium is a worthwhile and enjoyable weekend for health professionals who want to update their clinical knowledge and practical skills, earn CME/CPD points and engage with others in the primary health care industry.

The 2016 Symposium will host our biggest programme yet.

Speakers include:

Rod McLeod  Nicola Dalbeth  Matt Dawes

Nigel Lever  Min Lo  Helen Roberts

Chris Ellis  Amanda Oakley  Nikki Turner

Please see the symposium website for up-to-date programme information (more information about the programme/speakers will be added as it becomes available).

Click here to register now!

We look forward to seeing you at the Symposium in March 2016, at our new venue with ample safe parking.

Dr Bruce Arroll
Symposium Convenor

2015 delivers more births – Media release

17 February 2016

In 2015, 61,038 live births were registered in New Zealand, up 3,796 (7 percent) from 2014, Statistics New Zealand said today.

"Higher fertility rates and population growth led to more births in 2015," population statistics manager Jo-Anne Skinner said. "The rise in births in 2015 follows decreasing birth numbers in the preceding four years."

Women aged 30–34 years have had the highest fertility rate of all age groups since 2002. In 2015, there were 125 births for every 1,000 women aged 30–34 years, up from 119 in 2014. This increase in the proportion of women having a baby, together with an increase in the number of women aged 30–34 years, resulted in 1,395 (8 percent) more births to women in this age group compared with 2014.

In 2015, compared with 2014, births increased in all age groups over 20 years, including women aged:

• 25–29 years – up 1,137, largely due to population increase
• 35–39 years – up 696, largely due to increased fertility
• 20–24 years – up 544, due to slightly higher fertility and increased population.

In contrast, teenage fertility rates have continued to drop in each year since 2008. In 2015, the rate for women aged 15–19 years was 19 births per 1,000 women – down from 33 in 2008.

Ends

For media enquiries contact: Anne Howard, Christchurch 03 964 870003 964 8700 , info@stats.govt.nz
Authorised by Liz MacPherson, Government Statistician, 17 February 2016

For more information about these statistics:

• Visit Births and Deaths: Year ended December 2015
• Open the attached files

   Information release (PDF)      Tables (Excel)     Copy of this media release (PDF)

(See attached file: BirthsAndDeathsYeDec15.pdf)(See attached file: bd-Dec15-all-tables.xls)(See attached file: BirthsAndDeathsYeDec15MR.pdf)

Call for Nominations for Health Statutory Bodies - ECART, Northern A HDEC and Southern HDEC

The Ministry of Health has recently published an advertisement seeking nominations/applications for appointment to Ethics Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology (ECART), Northern A Health and Disability Ethics Committee (HDEC) and Southern HDEC. Please see the link below:

http://www.health.govt.nz/new-zealand-health-system/key-health-sector-organisations-and-people/appointments-health-statutory-bodies/vacancies-health-statutory-bodies

Please note that the closing date for applications is Friday 11 March.

All applications must be made using the online via the Ministry of Health Careers system and be accompanied by a completed and signed Declaration Form.

Kind regards

The Appointments Team

Ministry of Health

In This Issue (click to view)

• SAHM in the News
  
• Adolescent Health in the News
  
• • Recent Research
  • National
  • International
• Recent Publications
  
• New Resources Available
  
• Upcoming Webinars
  
• Call for Presentations and Papers
  

Recruitment Notice from CMDHB

Do you have experience of working with young people and a strong understanding of project management?

We are currently looking for a Quality Improvement Advisor to join us on a unique project focussed on improving the primary care experience for young people in Counties Manukau. This programme is part of a broader re-design of youth health services for CMDHB and the Prime Minister’s Youth Mental Health project.

In this role you will be responsible for working with primary care practices and a youth consumer advisor to understand their strengths and weaknesses in youth health. Utilising your previous project management experience you will identify and initiate improvement activity using quality improvement methodologies. You will work on improving networks and relationships between primary care, schools, NGOs and other service providers. Due to the wide range of stakeholders you will need strong communication skills to ensure stakeholder engagement and management.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to implement real change and improvement to the youth of our community, whilst also having the opportunity to further develop your knowledge of the health sector and quality improvement methodologies.

We are ideally looking for a candidate with a health related degree, or project management qualification, primary care knowledge, an understanding of the Counties Manukau Health context would be ideal.

http://www.countiesmanukau.health.nz/careers/our-jobs/non-clinical-services/

Many thanks,

Julia

Julia Burgess Shaw

Youth Health I Service Development Manager

DDI: +64 9 263 1388+64 9 263 1388 ext: 5888

M: 021 149 6444021 149 6444 E:Julia.BurgessShaw@middlemore.co.nz

19 Lambie Drive, Papatoetoe I Private Bag 94052, Manukau, Auckland 2241

countiesmanukau.health.nz I COUNTIES MANUKAU DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD