National services and organisations
- 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 »
- 07 Oct 2008
Maria Low is a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Rehabilitation for the Burwood Spinal Unit, Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB). Recently, Maria wrote a successful business proposal to CDHB for additional hours dedicated to addressing sexuality in rehabilitation and last month she was appointed to that role. Read more »
- 22 Aug 2008
One of the interesting topics at the recent Australian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine annual meeting in Adelaide (May 2008) was a whole stream of papers about cancer survivorship and rehabilitation. Given that more and more people are surviving their initial cancer diagnosis, but with ongoing disability, is this an area in which rehabilitation services should developing? Read more »
- 06 Jun 2008
Got a disease that only you can pronounce? Or perhaps you recently had a patient come to your clinic with a disorder that you secretly had to look up in a textbook to find out what it was? Maybe you are just looking for information and support to provide people with one of the hundreds of less common pathologies? Then this website is for you. Read more »
Anne Ronaldson, Nurse Specialist for "Rehab Plus" at Auckland District Health Board, advocates for the role of nursing in rehabilitation and discusses the possibility of a set up of a special interest group for rehabilitation nursing in New Zealand. Read more »
- 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 »
ACC has recently announced that it has launched a National Serious Injury Service that will specialise in working with people who have a permanent disability as a result of an injury. Read more »
Alison Masters is a psychiatrist in the Early Intervention Service for Mental Health Services at Capital & Coast District Health Board (CCDHB). She gives the lowdown on providing early interention for young adults with psychosis, the role of consumer advisors in mental health services and the place of rehabilitation principles in the management of psychiatric illness. Read more »
- 01 Jul 2007
This month’s interview is with Julian Verkaaik, Manager of the Burwood Academy of Independent Living (BAIL). BAIL is an independent public trust, situated at the Burwood Hospital campus in Christchurch, and established in Feb 2006. Read more »
Martin Sullivan
