Health Pathways Community training event
Clinical assessment with Māori whānau. For more information click here. (The College is not responsible for external links).
Education committee report June 2024
The Education committee with 7 members is the largest of the College’s committees. The committee and DCT David Sorrell meet every 2-3 months as required via zoom and communicate regularly by email. This year Palm Kamolpanus has joined the committee as the new convenor of the Registrar subcommittee. The committee wishes to thank outgoing convenor…
Let’s connect wellness webinar
You are invited to attend Connect Communication’s first Lets Connect Wellness Webinar entitled “Ask me Anything”: Everything you have always wanted to ask a Psychiatrist on Tuesday June 25th 7 pm. Is there something you have always secretly wanted to ask a Psychiatrist, but you’ve never had the opportunity? Maybe questions about anxiety, medication, depression…
Urgent Care outside of Aotearoa New Zealand
At its meeting on 22 May, the Executive Committee endorsed the strategy working group’s (SWG) recommended approach to the College’s support for the promotion and development of urgent care outside of Aotearoa New Zealand. The SWG met to discuss this as the College is experiencing a significant increase in the numbers of doctors based overseas…
Presentation at UCA conference
A College member, Jasmine MacKay, who is also the convenor of the Board of Censors and Secretary of the Executive Committee, presented at the Urgent Care Convention in Las Vegas in April 2024. Jasmine’s presentation is saved as a pdf, and accessible for reviewing here.
Committee members 2024
Each year shortly after the AGM, the Executive Committee goes through a process to ensure representation in the committee, and that the standing commmittees and working groups are appointed.
Annual General Meeting 2024
The Royal New Zealand College of Urgent Care’s annual general meeting 2024 took place at 6pm, Saturday 23 March 2024 at the Goodfellow Symposium (Dew Drop Centre, Manukau, Auckland). A small number of members were present in the room and online. Of the motions presented to the members through online voting: The motion to allow…
Remuneration/workforce survey 2024
Thank you those who responded. This year’s response was smaller than previous years – 107. Four were General Practitioners, 53 were Fellows of the College, 10 additionally were Clinical Directors and registrars were divided into senior (23 replies) and junior (15 replies) on the basis of UCPEX pass. This represents about 1/4 of RNZCUC members…
Post Graduate Qualification in Point of Care Ultrasound and Echo for Clinicians – survey
The University of Auckland is scoping the feasibility of developing a Post Graduate Qualification in Point of Care Ultrasound and Echo for Clinicians. They believe that this would be of interest to a wide range of clinicians in acute care settings, including urgent care. Please take 2 minutes to complete the following survey to help…
Urgent Care factsheet
We have updated the one-page summary of Urgent Care in New Zealand using the data collected from clinics this year. This summary provides a snapshot of how urgent care contributes to primary health delivery in New Zealand.