This page will be dedicated to providing news items from each of the DHBs, celebrate events that have occurred throughout the region and provide updates on the various regional projects that we are working on. This page is interactive and is updated as events happens. It will replace the Midland Matters Newsletter.
If you have a news item or a celebration that you would like us to highlight, please send your write up to Akatu Marsters on akatu.masters "at" lakesdhb.govt.nz
News and Events Around the Region (January / February / March 2010)
National and Regional News
Midland Regional Mental Health Services for Older People Networking Day 26 March 2010 - Taupo
It gives me great pleasure to invite you to attend the Midland Region Mental Health Services for Older People Networking Day on the 26th March 2010 in Taupo.
Sharon Linwood has done an excellent job of pulling together the programme. You will see that there are some excellent speakers and discussion topics identified for the day and Sharon will be presenting the Midland Regional Dementia Consultation and Advice Service.
We hope that you will support this day by circulating this email amongst your teams. You will find a registration form which needs to be completed for each person attending.
There is no cost to the participants. Places are limited so Akatu looks forward to receiving your registration by Friday 19th March 2010 so we can confirm catering.
Midland Primary Health Expression of Interest Business Case - Insights from Belinda Walker He Tipuana Nga Kakano
Until now the focus for mental health and addiction consumers has generally been on a person’s mental illness and psychosocial needs, while their physical needs were often unrecognised. This segmented approach provided limited opportunity for the primary care sector to be engaged, and build their capability and capacity to meet the needs of this population.
Good progress has been made in the Midlands region in regard to building primary care mental health and addiction services for people presenting with mild to moderate needs, aided in part by primary care mental health funded pilots.
Anyone who experiences mental distress, mental illness and addiction needs to have services delivered in the least restrictive and most inclusive way and clearly this is best achieved in the community. Work is needed to build the capability and capacity for care to be provided in the primary care setting for people with severe and enduring mental health and addiction issues. Secondary, primary and nongovernment community services must take the journey together in order to provide integrated, better, sooner, more convenient services to the people of the Midlands Region.
The status quo is no longer desirable, sustainable or able to meet WHO guidelines.
There is a proposed move in Midland toward Integrated Family Health Centres (IFHC) that are a one stop shop sort of scenario. People will be able to link in with lifestyle programmes that involve making better choices. Longer term they will also provide mobile mental health and addiction services that will go out and see people in environments that they are comfortable to further break down barriers and stigma associated with accessing mental health services.
For a copy of the Midland Primary Health Business Case contact Eseta Nonu-Reid at eseta.nonu-reid "at" lakesdhb.govt.nz
Consumer Self-Assessed Outcome Measure
After several years of development and validating, Te Pou have released the Consumer Self-Assessed Outcome Measurement tool. To find out more about the tool please visit the Te Pou website at www.tepou.co.nz
Key Performance Indicators Project
KPI Priject Newsletter Jan 2010
Current Status - Prepared by Belinda Walker HealthCare NZ Lakes NGO Parnter
Selected DHBs and partner NGOs participating and data submissions made for 2007/08 and 2008/09. Benchmarking Forum were held in June 2009, 2 Sept 2009 and 3 Nov 2009. There is another in February and the Ministry of Health and Te Pou have been invited to join this workshop. The project concludes June 2010.
Test phase indicators
- Inpatient change in the total HONOS scale
- 28 day acute inpatient readmission rate
- Average length of acute inpatient stay
- Community treatment days per clinical FTE
- Community treatment days per service user
- NGO services investment
- Pre-admission community care
- Post-discharge community care
- Total staff turnover
- Sick leave usage
Participants will use the information to understand their organisations; compare their performance with those of other participants; identify areas for data improvement; identify areas for service improvement; focus areas for change and improvement; and improve outcomes for service users
The role of NGO partners is to pprovide leadership to the project; pprovide DHB’s with contextual advice when interpreting the data; contribute to quality improvement processes; consider and advise on future NGO data submission and benchmarking activity; and ccontribute to the development of recommendations for Phase III
Outcomes aimed for are effective use of data to build the indicators at provider level; provider capability to collect, report and use data; indication of the Framework’s effectiveness to measure performance and improve quality; established benchmarking forums and resultant use of information for quality improvement; and recommendations for whole of sector implementation.
Mental Health Commission 'About Us' Newsletter
The Mental Health Commission published its first edition of the About Us Newsletter in February 2010. There are some interesting articles about consumer initiatives occurring nationally so well worth the read.
Midland Senior Administrator Appointed - Akatu Marsters
Akatu Marsters has joined the Midland Regional Team. Akatu comes with a wealth of administration and hosptilaity services experience. For those of you who remember, Akatu did some temping work for the Midland team 18 months ago before taking up a fixed term contract with the Lakes HPV team. It is great to have her in the team permanantly. I know that the region will welcome Akatu with open arms.
Bay of Plenty
Tairawhiti
Ngati Porou Hauora Key Appointments
The Chief Eexecutive for Ngati Porou has been appointed and commences duties in middle/late February. Nellie Brooking is Ngati Porou and Rongowhakaata descent and has extensive experience in senior management roles.
The Service Manager for mental health and addictions services has also been appointed. Emere Hohapata has extensive experience in mental heatlh and addictions with a special interest in CAMHS. She is a strong advocate for Maori and Maori initiatives.
Waikato
Lakes
The Lakes Consumer Adviosry Group first newsletter for the year has several interesting insights and updates of consumer initiatives in the district.
Smokefree Moves @ Mental Health Services, Lakes DHB
Tipu Ora smokefree staff were formally welcomed to Lakes DHB this week, to mark the formal partnership of the Maori health provider with Lakes DHB’s Mental Health Service. The Tipu Ora staff have come on board as honorary staff members, as they work with our mental health professionals towards making the inpatient unit, Whare Whakaue, smokefree.
Unit Clinical Nurse Manager Julie Galloway says the new partnership with Tipu Ora should make it possible to work towards providing a seamless transition for clients who are admitted to the acute mental health service through their discharge back home, and re-entry into the community mental health services. Julie Galloway says as Tipu Ora also services the Taupo and Turangi areas, district-wide cover of the smokefree cessation support services will be possible.
Speakers at the welcome this week included Tipu Ora Executive Manager Raewyn Bourne, Mental Health Services Manager Maureen Emery, smokefree staff at Tipu Ora and Lakes DHB and Julie Galloway.
Pictured seated are Tipu Ora staff signing their documentation to become honorary staff members.L-R: Margie Epapara, Anaru Bidois, Rangitiaria Tibble and Cherie Ngawhika.
L-R standing: Raewyn Bourne, Maureen Emery, Yvonne Rogers and Julie Galloway.
Lakes DHB Region Suicide Intervention and Prevention Training
Lakes DHB region cohort and course lecturer Dr Candy Cookson-Cox, Rotorua, February 2010.
Seventeen students from the Lakes DHB region completed the five month Level 6 NZQA recognised Suicide Intervention Training with Anamata PTE on February 11th 2010.. 20 course fee scholarships were distributed to the participants with 17 from Lakes District Health Board and 3 from the Midland Regional Network. The Lakes group will graduate from the Anamata Prviate Training Establishment with the Bay of Plenty and Tairawhiti cohorts in Ruatoki on Saturday 13th March supported by the Midland Workforce Coordinator.
Taranaki
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