Thank you those who responded. This year a record 150 doctors replied to the workforce survey. Nine were General Practitioners, 73 were Fellows of the College and this year we divided registrars into senior (34 replies) and junior (16 replies). This represents about 3/8 of RNZCUC members but may not be directly comparable to last…
The Urgent Care College Information System (UCCIS) will be an overarching information system providing (or linking) all of the IT and IS the College uses. This will greatly improve ease of use for members, and increase the efficiency and productivity of the College adminstration. UCCIS is being built in phases. UCCIS will evolve further over…
The fourth urgent care Bootcamp was a fantastic success, with our members able to reconnect, re-energise, and rekindle passions for urgent care practice. Over 90 delegates attended the Bootcamp on Saturday and were treated to exciting, fast-paced, thought-provoking talks. Over 70 guests attended the Fellowship ceremony and dinner and celebrated our recent Fellows. Many stayed for the Sunday panel discussions which really helped us focus on what needs to be done at a system level to allow urgent care to provide the right care, to the right people, in the right places, at the right time.
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In response to the recent survey on the proposed quarterly supervision appraisal form, the Education Committee responded: Following the MCNZ accreditation visit in 2021, RNZCUC has undertaken to develop a more robust supervision form and align supervision requirements with the MCNZ. A working group was established and the Quarterly Appraisal Form developed. This form is…
As we approach the first anniversary of the new recertification programme we have a CPD newsletter. Here you will find some clarifications and important reminders about various parts of recertification as well as a list of accessible and UC relevant CPD.
(published March 2022) The results of the annual survey are available online here. In general, the College appears to be doing well, even very well, in the areas that we asked about. We asked about registrars’ experience of the training programme, and most (nearly all) responses indicated agreement or strong agreement to a range of…
Advice to clinics and health professionals is to check the Ministry of Health page on Covid-19 or follow your DHB/PHO recommendations. Click ‘read more’ for brief information on College events and courses.
Thank you to all that replied to this survey. The overall impression was that again there are large variations. Bear in mind when comparing to last year that the sample may not correspond to last year’s cross-section. There are two parts to the survey – the statistics and the free text comments from which I…
