Welcome to the December DPD newsletter. I would like to encourage you all to check out this BPAC page called Recovery at Work – reframing the conversation. One of the metrics that ACC monitor looks at the number of fully unfit for work certificates issued by urgent care clinics. As I understand it, we are…
Welcome to the latest DPD newsletter. This month we are looking at how we meet our CPD/CME requirements during the year and includes links to various CPD opportunities at the bottom of the page. In addition to other yearly requirements (Audit, Resus etc) each year we have a minimum requirement of 5 hours of CME…
The Education Committee remains committed to ensuring a quality training programme for Urgent Care. As most of you are aware, we are in a transition period where two training programmes are being run concurrently, for those due to start training in 2025 on the new programme, and all the current registrars who remain on the…
The Education committee continues to oversee the review of the training programme, in preparation for the new training programme for those registrars starting from 2025. We have endeavored to keep changes to a minimum for current registrars, and have advised members of these changes in several ways (email, DCT report, and website updates). Please contact…
Join us at 12.30 on Thursday 7 December for our next ‘How to’ webinar as we cover ‘How to complete an ACC18 medical certificate’. We know that not everyone has the same understanding of when to use ‘fully unfit’, ‘fit for selected’ and ‘fully fit’ when completing an ACC18 medical certificate. We also know it…
The health care sector is experiencing unprecedented times, coupled with staff shortages and high levels of unenrolled patients. We are all in the same waka. City Medical Napier has proposed a quarterly forum of the urgent care centres across Aotearoa New Zealand, where we can sit around the virtual table and share our challenges and…
A new audio interview series featuring health care professionals and researchers involved in trauma care and rehabilitation has been published on the Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission website. Called Trauma Exchange, the interviews are of interest to anyone involved in trauma care and rehabilitation. They cover a range of topics: State of…