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The hub for all your learning resources.

Here you will find all our clinical education resources from articles to recorded webinars, all supporting equitable access to funded medicines.

EPiC Reflect and Audit Opioids

EPiC Reflect & Audit - Opioids

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.

Contributor
He Ako Hiringa
13 September 2023
  • Reflect & audit activities
  • EPiC
EPiC Opioids

EPiC Opioids specific data stories

This page provides the specific methodology used for each data story featured in EPiC Opioids.

12 September 2023
  • EPiC
Microlearning

Menopause ma’ lady?

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. 

Contributor
He Ako Hiringa
1 September 2023
  • HAH Bulletins
  • Menopause
Focus medicine green

Promoting the appropriate supply of medicines

8 minutes to Read

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.

Contributor
Richard French
25 August 2023
  • Clinical article
  • Focus medicine
Microlearning

Benzodiazepines and zopiclone – much risk, little benefit

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. 

Contributor
He Ako Hiringa
1 August 2023
  • HAH Bulletins

Youth mental health - Supporting our young people

64 minutes to Watch

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. 

Contributor
Dr Cathy Stephenson and Dr Arran Culver
13 July 2023
  • Youth mental health
  • Recorded webinars
Microlearning

Virus Action Plans

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. 

Contributor
He Ako Hiringa
3 July 2023
  • HAH Bulletins
  • Antimicrobials
Supporting youth mental health

Time to focus on youth mental health

15 minutes to Read

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.

Contributor
Dr Neil Whittaker and Professor Terryann Clark (Ngāpuhi)
30 June 2023
  • Youth mental health
  • Clinical article
  • Equity
Microlearning

ADHD medicines supply change

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. 

Contributor
He Ako Hiringa
8 June 2023
  • HAH Bulletins
EPiC Youth Mental Health

EPiC Youth mental health specific data stories

This page provides the specific methodology used for each data story featured in EPiC Youth mental health.

7 June 2023
  • EPiC
  • Youth mental health
EPiC Reflect Youth Mental Health

EPiC Reflect & Audit - 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.

Contributor
He Ako Hiringa
7 June 2023
  • Reflect & audit activities
  • EPiC
  • Youth mental health
Focus medicine

Triazolam…to be discontinued

10 minutes to Read

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.

Contributor
He Ako Hiringa, reviewed by Kyra Sycamore
1 June 2023
  • Clinical article
  • Focus medicine

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