With the continued fall-off in Covid-19 new cases, there hasn’t been much to report in the last week.
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“Community response framework”
Yesterday the Ministry of Health released a document outlining four levels of alert - green, yellow, orange and red - for all healthcare providers during this pandemic.
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Urgent care gets a specific and prominent mention; notably:
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- There’s advice to stream Covid-suspect cases within facilities, as clinics already do, and, at red alert, to consider streaming between facilities.
- Urgent care will be expected to take on more work that normally would have been done in hospital.
- Increase hours if needed.
- Support high needs patients whose hospital services have been postponed.
There may be opportunities and benefits in clinics within a region discussing amongst themselves and with their DHB(s) how they might collectively and cooperatively respond if there is a fresh outbreak.
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Financial support
AMCA continues to push for UCC support, including a media release today.
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Research
If anyone with a research background is interested in researching early-disease primary care treatment of Covid-19, please reply.
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With best wishes,
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David Gollogly, Jasmine Mackay, Richard Chen
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Pandemic Response Committee
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