Better Sooner More Convenient Primary Care - New Zealand Doctor
Better Sooner More Convenient Primary Care - New Zealand Doctor
Better Sooner More Convenient Primary Care - New Zealand Doctor
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Year three<br />
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Continued joint planning by each organisation with one plan covering all health promotion<br />
services.<br />
Enhanced collaboration between the three organisations.<br />
Fully functional virtual single operating entity where each organisation WCPHO, WCDHB<br />
and CPH work together to create a “Healthy West Coast”.<br />
7 Capability and capacity<br />
Between the three organisations, the West Coast has a small but strong health promotion<br />
workforce. This workforce is strongly supported by a range of clinicians including general<br />
practice teams, pharmacies, rural nurse specialists, practice nurses and so on. General practices<br />
and pharmacies are actively engaged in health promotion campaigns and provision of health<br />
promotion resources.<br />
West Coast PHO<br />
The West Coast PHO has a small but strong health promotion workforce with 0.5 Full Time<br />
Equivalent (FTE) Health Promoter and 1 FTE Active Communities Co-ordinator that are<br />
supported by the Clinical Manager. The Coast Quit programme is implemented by GP‟s, practice<br />
nurses, rural nurse specialists and three pharmacies.<br />
West Coast DHB<br />
Tobacco Control/Smokefree - the 1 FTE Regional Smokefree Co-ordinator is based within the<br />
Planning & Funding team and smoking cessation services and clinical training a delivered within<br />
the hospital setting by the Smoking Cessation practitioners (1 FTE total).<br />
Physical Activity and Nutrition - the Healthy Eating Healthy Action (HEHA) team is based<br />
within Planning & Funding and consists of 2.5 FTE of HEHA co-ordinators that work across the<br />
nutrition and physical activity areas and 1 FTE HEHA manager that works across the West<br />
Coast and Canterbury DHBs.<br />
Immunuisation - Outreach Immunisation co-ordinators (1 FTE total – 0.4 clinical, 0.6 Māori coordination),<br />
HPV co-ordinator (0.4 FTE), Public Health Nurses, Immunisation co-ordinator (0.6<br />
FTE).<br />
Community & Public Health<br />
Tobacco Control/Smokefree - Aukati Kai Paipa 1.0 FTE, Māori Smoking Health Promoter 0.4<br />
FTE, Smokefree Health Promoter 0.5 FTE, Smokefree Environment Compliance 0.2 FTE.<br />
Immunuisation - Youth Health Promoter 0.2 FTE, Health Protection Officer 0.2 FTE, Public<br />
Health Specialist 0.1 FTE.<br />
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