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\r\n Guest Editorial – Anna Carey, Chair of the Health of Older People Service Level Alliance<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n
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As the South Island ACP (Advance Care Plan) facilitator role \u2013 supported by the South Island Alliance \u2013 comes to an end, I thought it was timely to reflect on the progress we have made with advance care planning. Advance care planning is one of several priorities across the South Island. With the recent COVID-19 pandemic, it has brought the need for ACPs into sharper focus both for health teams, and for a person and their wh\u0101nau. International evidence has found that advance care planning leads to less unwanted aggressive medical care, better quality of life near death, decreased rates […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n

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\r\n South Island Stroke Study Day: Enhancing practice and care<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n
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Health professionals will focus on improving quality of care for stroke patients at the annual stroke study day on 10 November 2020. The event is being held in Christchurch and delivered jointly by the Stroke Foundation of New Zealand and the South Island Alliance\u2019s stroke services team. South Island-wide stroke services providers, stroke teams, GPs and practice nurses from across the continuum of care will learn about a wide range of stroke-specific topics, including post-stroke depression and grieving, maximising communication and increasing socialisation for patients with aphasia, as well as strategies for a smooth transition from hospital to home. The […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n

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\r\n Sharing and collaborating between South Island ICUs<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n
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Since the South Island Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Project Group was formed two years ago, communication between ICUs has increased dramatically, resulting in more collaboration and collegiality across the region. \u201cThe group has achieved our hopes and expectations in spades,\u201d says Richard Whitticase, ICU Charge Nurse Manager, South Canterbury DHB. \u201cWe get to exchange ideas, policies, procedures \u2013 and you know your problems are the same as everyone else\u2019s. In the past, others might have thought we weren\u2019t a proper ICU because we\u2019re small. Now, everyone realises our work is the same as other ICUs, and we have great mutual […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n

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\r\n Streamlining service delivery across the South Island with ePharmacy<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n
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An electronic pharmacy management solution is now live across the five South Island DHBs, enabling hospital pharmacy inventory to be managed within a single system, improving service delivery and saving time. ePharmacy provides full inventory management, dispensing, compounding, and repacking functionality for hospital pharmacy services, and integrates with patient management systems, financial systems, and MedChart prescribing and administration software. Developed in close consultation with hospital pharmacy expertise, ePharmacy replaces end-of-life software, WinDose. The upgrade will allow more efficient and productive ways of working, improved functionality and regional patient information sharing to pharmacy services. Since August, all five DHBs are now […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n

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\r\n Electronic ACP solution live across the region<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n
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A digital solution designed to capture conversations around Advance Care Planning (ACP) has gone live across the South Island. The ACP Progress Note provides a single, regional solution for clinicians to document and access important discussions with patients about their future health care planning and end-of-life wishes. Canterbury Initiative ACP Facilitator Jane Goodwin says it\u2019s a consistent way for clinicians to log those conversations, which can then be electronically shared securely. \u201cAdvance care planning conversations don\u2019t always lead to a person creating or completing an ACPlan. So, the ACP Progress Note allows clinicians to document discussions in a consistent location […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n

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\r\n South Island Stroke Study Day – November 2020<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n
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GPs and other health professionals will focus on improving the quality of care for stroke patients at the annual stroke study day in November. The event is being held in Christchurch and delivered jointly by the Stroke Foundation of New Zealand and the South Island Alliance\u2019s stroke services team. Register for the event here…<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n

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\r\n SPaIT chair Carol Atmore steps down<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n
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Dr Carol Atmore has resigned as chair of SPaIT, after five years in the role. She has been a member of SPaIT since 2012 and has made an enormous contribution to the Alliance, bringing a strong primary care focus to our regional focus. Carol, a practising GP, has recently taken up a role as Head of Department, in the Department of General Practice and Rural Health within Otago Medical School at the University of Otago in Dunedin. She has a doctorate in rural health and was also chair of Alliance South (Southern DHB\u2019s local alliance) up until late last year. […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n

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\r\n WCTO QI steering group member profile: Lydia Mains<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n
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After recognising a gap for mothers-to-be who needed extra support beyond the Well Child Tamariki Ora (WCTO) programme, Motueka P\u016bkenga Kaiwhakahaere Nurse Manager Lydia Mains created the T\u016bhono Service. The kaupapa M\u0101ori programme, for young M\u0101ori parents in Waikawa and Motueka needing intensive and personalised support to nurture their babies, aims to strengthen connections and fill any gaps as early on as possible. \u201cWe work closely with these women as they head into parenthood. They may not have family support or a secure relationship, or they may have had a traumatic childhood themselves. They could also have a mental health […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n

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\r\n South Island Cancer Consumer Group chair profile: John MacDonald<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n
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John MacDonald spent most of his career as a self-described serial entrepreneur. From skiing and adventure tourism, to marketing, publishing, and motor trade in Queenstown, it was a cancer diagnosis that led to a change in direction. Following a difficult 18-month period to be correctly diagnosed, John took surviving cancer as an opportunity to deliberately redirect his life. \u201cThe stress during that 18 months of trying to reach a diagnosis was unbelievable \u2013 it did my head in. I ended up very depressed and sought help through counselling and the Cancer Society. Throughout my career, I equated making money with […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n

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