Health Emergency Response
COVID-19 Updates
- New! CPRG Coronavirus Update – 22 May 2020: Promoting testing in your practice; new pathways; Tracer app; oral contraceptives; historical discharge summaries
- CPRG Coronavirus Update – 19 May 2020: Lab changes; CDHB requests; self-isolation changes; influenza immunisations
- CPRG Coronavirus Update for Community Pharmacy – 14 May 2020: HealthPathways; referral for COVID patients; ePrescription timing; signature-exempt prescriptions
- CPRG Coronavirus Update for General Practice – 14 May 2020: Prescriptions; Acute Plans; Well Child services; patients with intellectual disabilities; back to work advice
- CPRG Coronavirus Update – 8 May 2020: ERMS hospital scripts; increased drug seeking behaviour; ARC screening form; UoO GP project
- CPRG Coronavirus Update for General Practice – 7 May 2020: COVID claims; labelling of swab specimens; ARC/LTC COVID survey
- CPRG Coronavirus Update – 4 May 2020: ePrescribing; employers requesting swabs; influenza surveillance; comms to specialists
- CPRG Coronavirus Update for General Practice – 28 April 2020: Funding criteria; lab testing availability; patients with mental health conditions
- CPRG Coronavirus Update for General Practice – 24 April 2020: Public health notification changes; labelling of swab speciments; Special Authority/NPPA approvals
For all CPRG Updates pertaining to COVID-19, go to Resources and filter the list for ‘Update’ or for ‘COVID-19’.
Guidelines
Clinical guidelines for COVID-19 assessment, treatment and management, can be found on Community HealthPathways.
- MoH Alert Level 2 PPE Guidelines (Unknown COVID Status) – 15 May 2020
- MoH Alert Level 2 PPE Guidelines (Suspected, Probable or Confirmed COVID Case) – 15 May 2020
- The MoH has released comprehensive FAQs regarding signature exempt prescriptions. You can find more information here.
- The Royal NZ College of General Practitioners has released advice on what Level 2 means for primary care. You can view their article here.
- MoH PPE Guidelines for Community Pharmacy – 8 April 2020
- Community Pharmacy Guidelines for Cleaning and Decontamination – 20 April 2020
- Community Pharmacy Infection Prevention and Control Overview – 9 April 2020
- Director-General Waiver under Regulation 43 Medicines Regulations 1984 – 27 March 2020
- Opioid Substitution Therapy Guidelines for COVID-19 – 27 March 2020
- Donning PPE instructions
- Removing PPE instructions
- Cleaning, disinfecting and waste guidelines
Leaflets
The Canterbury HealthInfo website has many excellent resources and information for patients. Refer patients to: https://www.healthinfo.org.nz/. In addition we have prepared these two patient leaflets:
Posters
- Full Colour ‘Stop’ Poster A4 version – for practices to add their phone number
- Full Colour ‘Stop’ Poster A3 version – for practices to add their phone number
- Full Colour ‘Stop’ Poster A2 version – for practices to add their phone number
- COVID-19 Assets from Health Promotion Agency – 16 March 2020
- COVID-19 Resources in other languages now available – 13 March 2020
- Stop! Poster (Basic Word version) A4 for Pharmacies – 13 March 2020
- Stop! Poster (Basic Word version) A4 – 2 March 2020 – for practices to add their phone number
- Stop! Poster (Basic Word version) A3 – 2 March 2020 – for practices to add their phone number
- Protect Yourself against Coronavirus Poster
- Hand Hygiene Poster
- 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene at the Point of Care Poster
- Cover your Cough
Working Virtually
- Virtual GP Toolkit:
- More information on telehealth can be found on the Health Navigator site.
Websites
- NZ COVID Tracer App
- Health Promotion Agency – COVID-19 Information Assets
- WHO – Coronavirus
- Ministry of Health Facebook page: facebook.com/minhealthnz
- Te Punaha Matatini – Centre of Research Excellence, University of Auckland
