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The New Zealand Rehabilitation Association is pleased to collaborate with the National Institute of Rehabilitation Research (NIRR-NZ) and the University of Otago Rehabilitation and Disability Research Theme to offer this conference which will focus on innovation in rehabilitation, and in particular applications of novel technologies including virtual reality, and other ways to promote engagement in rehabilitation. Read more »
- 03 Jul 2009
This year's NZRA AGM has been been scheduled to occur during a lunch break in the upcoming AFRM/NIRR/NZRA Rehabilitation Conference. All NZRA members and any other interested parties are welcome and encouraged to attend! The organisation runs on the goodwill and participation of interested individuals. Membership forms will be available to anyone attending, and this year the NZRA membership fees has recently been set at a Special Rate of $1 per year. What have you got to loose! Agenda items and proposed changes to our Constitution are listed in this column along with information about the time and venue of the AGM. Read more »
With the support of the Todd Foundation, Diversityworks Trust has begun a six month project that aims to design a flexible, multi-faceted and sustainable peer-based coaching model to support disabled people, especially young people and whanau/families, to better manage their disability support needs. The project seeks to design a model that gives information, educates and demonstrates techniques for the management of disability support workers, providers and services. Read more »
- 18 May 2009
Tony Ryall, Minister of Heath, has recently culled the total number of performance targets for the nation's 21 DHBs from ten to six - and yet the emphasis is still on increasing inputs rather than achieving better health outcomes. Arguably, rehabilitation suffers when financial incentives are aligned with surgery rates rather than improvements in functional abilities and quality of life. Like it or not, rehabilitation providers are at the mercy of health funding structures - the more we know about them, the better. Read more »
- 16 Apr 2009
The AFRM/NIRR/NZRA Rehabilitation Conference 2009 will be held in Queenstown from 21-25 July. (Visit www.rehabconference2009.org.nz for details.) The deadline for Early Bird Registration is closing 15 May 2009, so get in quick and register now! Read more »
Early this year I reported on a submission I made with two colleagues to a ministerial taskforce on the development of the Primary Health Care workforce. The report from this taskforce is now in, and while interprofessional education (IPE) gets some coverage, there is still a lot of work to do in this area of clinical training in NZ. An upcoming workshop on IPE, to be held in Wellington in February 2009, is part of this ongoing work. Read more »
- 06 Jul 2008
The NZRA is holding its conference next year, 22-25 July 2009, in partnership with the Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine and the New Zealand National Institute of Rehabilitation Research. Read more »
- 22 Jun 2008
The NZRA will be holding its Annual General Meeting on 31 July 2008 from 8-9pm by audioconference. Read on for more information regarding how to join the AGM by freephone. (Freephone from NZ landlines only). Read more »
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- 26 Oct 2007
The Ministry of Social Development and the Carers Alliance have been conducting community-based consultation on developing a national "Carer's Strategy". Keep up with the play on support for carers or contribute your own perspectives to the development of the strategy. Read more »
William Levack
