International organisations
The Cochrane Collaboration is a free (in NZ) online resource that brings you rigorous, independent reviews of best research evidence regarding treatment decisions. Now, selections from this service are brought to you via podcast. Read more »
- 13 Apr 2009
Working in the health sector and needing a 'pick me up'? This website is essentially an archive of short video clips featuring health professionals from various background talking about what keeps them interested, engaged and (as per the label on the box) passionate about their work. Read more »
- 09 Sep 2008
In June of this year I travelled with my wife Michelle, and 3 month old son Josh, to Stockholm in Sweden, not on some fanatical ABBA related pilgrimage (I’ll leave that to my parents generation), but to study a radically different approach to spinal cord rehabilitation – the Spinalis model. Read more »
- 23 Aug 2008
The United Nations Convention of Rights of Persons with Disabilities came into force on 3 May 2008. Why is this convention so important and where are we at in meeting its objectives? Read more »
Earlier in February I had the opportunity to make a submission to a ministerial taskforce on the development of the workforce in New Zealand’s Primary Health Care Sector. One reason I took this opportunity was to raise the profile of Interprofessional Education (IPE) for health professional in New Zealand. Unlike other countries New Zealand has no central organisation to advise on and advocate for IPE. Given the importance attributed to teamwork in the health sector (and in rehabilitation in particular) perhaps this is an issue that we need to address sooner rather than later. Read more »
- 18 Oct 2007
AllNurses is a forum with an active online community of over 243,000 registered members and 500 nursing topics. A section has been allocated to 'rehabilitation nursing'. Directions are given here to access the website and navigate its content. Read more »
This paper describes the outcomes from the first annual report of the Australasian Rehabiliation Ouctome Centre (AROC). A number of rehabilitation service in New Zealand have recently joined (or considered joining) the AROC network. This report provide examples from Australia of the type of data that could result from such networking. Read more »
Having reviewed over the last year a number of web-based discussion boards that have been either deserted or populated mainly by spam, it’s nice to finally find one or two to write positively about. This one is a forum for discussion of physiotherapy - or "physical therapy" as they call it in the US. Read more »
Wendi Wicks
