Five years’ work has culminated in ambulance services being able to link vital information to general practice. The St John electronic patient report form system has been developed to enable a record of a patient’s ambulance care to go to their GP
Emergency services are moving into a new era of communications technology, but details are scant on how Budget 2020’s $47.8 million for this will be spent
The Ministry of Health and ambulance services are staying tight-lipped on how millions of dollars will be spent upgrading emergency service communication networks
Jackie Clapperton is one of a kind. Mrs Clapperton, who is based on the East Cape, is the country’s first intensive care paramedic and nurse practitioner
Jackie Clapperton is an intensive care paramedic for St John and a nurse practitioner for The Doctors Te Whare Hāpara, Turanga Health at Te Karaka Medical Centre and Hauora Tairāwhiti; Karen Hoare is a nurse practitioner in south Auckland, whose work has helped to improve newborn and infant enrolment with primary health providers as well as immunisation rates across all ethnic groups
Specialist GP Nikki Vadgama provides some tips to make your next paediatric eczema consult easier. She includes a review of new guidelines, resources, websites and medications for paediatric eczema management