Here you will find all our clinical education resources from articles to recorded webinars, all supporting equitable access to funded medicines.
This editable PDF helps you to delve into the EPiC Opioid data, contemplate your prescribing, reflect on your current practice, and set goals and actions.
An additional audit/CQI section allows you or your practice team to repeat the process, completing activities that may be used for Foundation Standard or the Cornerstone CQI or Equity modules.
This page provides the specific methodology used for each data story featured in EPiC Opioids.
Approximately 80% of women experience perimenopause symptoms. Menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) can greatly help to improve symptom severity and frequency. Read this microlearning to find out more.
Over 60 per cent of New Zealanders have leftover or unwanted prescription medications in their home. Having excess medicine at home might be considered a good thing from a consumer's perspective, but the potential consequences of oversupply can be serious and need to be considered by the healthcare team.
Benzodiazepines and zopiclone are used frequently and for extended periods to aid sleep, despite well-recognised harms of dependency, cognitive decline and falls. Find out more about benzodiazepine and zopiclone use in Aotearoa in this piece of microlearning.
This video is a recording of the live webinar hosted by Mobile Health on 28 June 2023. GP Cathy Stephenson and child and adolescent psychiatrist Arran Culver discuss appropriate management of young people presenting with mental health concerns.
With coughs and colds doing the rounds, the He Ako Hiringa Virus Action Plans can help manage patient expectations for antibiotics. Read this microlearning to learn more.
Our youth are reporting worsening emotional and mental health, and inequities for young Māori and Pacific peoples are growing. Our article includes strategies and tips that may helpful when a distressed young person presents in primary care.
Methylphenidate and dexamfetamine are now funded for up to three months’ supply when prescribed through the New Zealand ePrescription Service (NZePS). Read this microlearning to find out more.
This page provides the specific methodology used for each data story featured in EPiC Youth mental health.
This editable PDF helps you to delve into the EPiC data, contemplate your prescribing, reflect on your current practice, and set goals and actions.
*New audit section*
An additional audit/CQI section allows you or your practice team to repeat the process, completing activities that may be used for Foundation Standard or the Cornerstone CQI or Equity modules.
Triazolam tablets are being discontinued; only endorsed prescriptions for existing patients are funded. Stocks of 125mcg tablets have run out, and 250mcg tablets will likely run out by November. Patients who take triazolam regularly will need to be withdrawn slowly, or changed to alternative medicine if continued treatment is necessary.