Last chance to join our free workshops in Whangārei and Kaitaia
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Kia ora koutou,
The team will be full steam ahead this month, running a series of free consumer health forum Aotearoa workshops in Whangārei, Kaitaia and Hastings. If you are interested in attending one of the workshops in Whangārei or Kaitaia, please go to our registration page here. The Hastings workshop is now fully booked. Planning for our May forum continues, and you can download the detailed programme here. Bring your ideas on how we can ensure the consumer, whānau and community perspective is reflected across our health system. We look forward to connecting with you at #OurVoices2024 in Auckland on 15 May.
Please contact us via consumers@hqsc.govt.nz to give us your feedback.
Ngā mihi
Deon York
Director of Consumer Engagement
Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission
Events | Ngā hui huhua
Our voices | Ō mātou reo
Our programme for Our voices 2024 is now live. You can download the programme for the event here. Visit our website to secure your spot.
Digital health equity: What it is and how you can help
Presented by: Dr Ruth Large, Telehealth NZ and Dr Amio Matenga Ikihele (Niue | Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) registered nurse and GM at Moana Connect
Development and use of digital technologies to improve health offers promise and opportunity for our communities, but only if access is equitable. At this workshop you can contribute to a paper on digital health equity, following an ‘unconferencing’ style.
How whānau voice can drive improvements
Presented by Akira Le Fevre, Suzanne Corcoran, Laura Ellis, Health New Zealand consumer engagement and whānau voice team
Introducing the new Te Whatu Ora Consumer Engagement and Whānau Voice team from Service Improvement and Innovation with kōrero from the General Manager Communities, National Lead PREMS, PROMS and Insights, and National Lead Rainbow Communities, who will give you an overview of their priorities and how their lived experience will influence their mahi.
Reframing disability in health: Disability capability framework workshop
Presented by: Rachel Noble MNZM and Leo Goldie-Anderson, Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora
Facilitated with Jonathan Tautari, Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission
Aotearoa New Zealand's health system does not always work for disabled individuals. Health New Zealand prioritises them in the Te Pae Tata plan. This workshop introduces the Disability Capability Framework to help you assess the strengths and areas needing improvement for your organisation to be equitable for disabled people.
Free consumer health forum Aotearoa workshops
We are hosting a series of free consumer workshops in Whangārei, Kaitaia this week!
- Friday 15 March, 10.00 am–1.00 pm, Terenga Paraoa Marae, Whangārei
- Saturday 16 March, 10.00 am–1.00 pm, Te Ahu, Kaitaia
- Saturday 23 March, 10.00 am–1.00 pm, Te Taiwhenua o Heretaunga, Hastings (fully booked)
To view the details of each workshop and register, please visit our website.
Consumer stories | Ngā kōrero
Finding dignity and peace - a homeless man’s experience with advance care planning
‘From having nowhere to stand, relate and belong to, advance care planning offered Daniel and his whānau a place to heal’ – Dr Sandrine Charvin-Fabre.
End-of-life care is rarely discussed with the homeless community because it is not considered a survival priority. Through her research and work with homeless man ‘Daniel’ (who wishes to be represented by a whale’s tail), Sandrine discovered that advance care planning opens a place of listening, consideration and respect for marginalised people.
Resources | Ngā rauemi
Code of expectations implementation guide
‘Using lived experience, including consumer experience data to inform improvements in health services with a focus on reducing health inequities for Māori, Pacific peoples and disabled people.’
– The code of expectations for health entities’ engagement with consumers and whānau
To find information, resources and practical advice on how to use lived experience to improve health services visit our Code of expectations implementation guide here.
Consumer opportunities | Tā te kiritaki whai wāhi
Do you want to get involved in co-designing health services and programmes?
Read the latest consumer opportunities.
- Te Tai o Poutini West Coast Hauora Council PHO and Health New Zealand – Te Whatu Ora joint consumer advisory group (closes 22 March 2024)
- Health New Zealand – Te Whatu Ora – Pharmacy Services Expert Advisory Group (closes 22 March 2024)
- Health New Zealand – Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai Auckland | Brainstorm session – update to the surgical consent/agreement to treatment form (closes 25 March 2024)
- University of Auckland – Pharmacist mental health focus group (closes 6.00 pm, 2 April 2024)
- New Zealand Psychology Board Te Poari Kaimātai Hinengaro o Aotearoa (NZPB) consumer representative on advisory group and recruitment panel (closes 30 April 2024)
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