Dear member / clinic owner, Copied below is a cover email addressed to general practice and urgent care, and a message from the Ministry about ordering PPE. With best wishes, David Gollogly, Jasmine MacKay, Richard Chen, Kelvin Ward Pandemic Response Committee Kia ora koutou We trust this finds you well as we head into the Christmas and New Year period. We know that you will be looking forward to some warm weather and a break over the Christmas and New Year period (24th December 2020 – 10th January 2021). Please note the Ministry is closed from 23 December 2020 and reopening on 11 January 2021; however, a skeleton team will be monitoring the phones and email over the break. We are very aware of a continued need to support you all if there is a change in Alert Levels or a resurgence of COVID-19. To that end, please make sure that you have ordered 2 weeks stock by the 16th December 2020. We have also asked that District Health Boards hold emergency stock and HCL and OneLink will open on all but the statutory holidays. If you have not set up your account with Health Care Logistics (HCL) or OneLink to access the PPE ordering portal, please email HCL on mohppeordering@prnzl.co.nz or greg.northwood@onelink.co.nz for OneLink to obtain a login and a credit form. The key contacts for the Ministry of Health are Dani Coplon (027) 457 6571 and Eng Chew (021) 405 419. The contact for HCL or OneLink, the contact is the afterhours number (09) 918 5100, which will initiate a call out process If you have any questions, please contact the Ministry Supply Chain team at: COVID.HealthSupplyChain@health.govt.nz Kind regards, COVID-19 Health Supply Chain Team COVID-19 Health System Response, Ministry of Health l www.moh.govt.nz