Midland Regional Clinical Best Practice
This page has been set up to promote clinical best practice activities across the five Midland DHBs, NGOs and primary health. This page will be managed by me, John Emery, Midland Regional Clinical Nurse Consultant. Any items can be directed to me at: john.emery "at" lakesdhb.govt.nz
Te Utuhina Manaakitanga Trust Workshops 10, 20, 27 November 2009
Over the month of November 2009 three workshops were conducted with participants from Te Utuhina, Bainbridge Charitable Trust, and Te Whare Hauora O Ngongotaha.
Workshop (Click to view)
19 participants attended the first workshop, 24 for the second, and 19 for the third workshop.
Comments from across the three workshops were:
“A lot of energy in the room. People learn a lot through experiences.”
“Great to be relationship building with Mental Health Services.”
“A lot of information – but that this learning has to be on hand while working with whaiora. So we have to know it.”
“Enjoyable learning. Easy sharing knowledge with other services. Awesome resources that were given to us for future and ongoing knowledge. Kia ora.”
For a view of some of the participants’ group work, click on the links below:
The overall rating for the three workshops was 4.5 out of 5. (Click on the evaluations below):
Further workshops are to be held in 2010, on 26 March, 9 and 23 April.
Mandatory Requirements for Effective Risk Management & Training
In 2004 a Ministry of Health working group developed the Violence Risk Assessment & Management. This was reviewed and adapted in 2006 and used as a basis by the Waikato DHB Risk Reference Group in developing the Risk Assessment & Management Programme (RAMP). The training programme was further developed by the Midland Workforce Development Training Group, to be known as the Risk Assessment, Formulation & Treatment Planning (RAFT).
The programme was designed on behalf of the Ministry of Health to assist general adult mental health services meet the day-to-day requirement for risk assessment and management. The Ministry’s goal was to develop a sustainable effective risk management-training package and provide regional/national consistency with the application of one training programme.
From discussions with the various Midland DHB Risk Training Groups, there was/is some contention around what exactly were the ‘mandatory requirements’.
A research of documents related to the development of the risk training programme, indicated that the mandatory requirements were based on a combination of factors.
I have therefore put together a synopsis regarding mandatory requirements, that can be perused through the link below: