NZ Primary Healthcare Awards

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

Taupō GP Glen Davies offers patients the opportunity to reverse prediabetes and other chronic non-communicable diseases; John Elliot of Kumeu has impeccable clinical standards and compassionate interpersonal skills

Feilding community's health centre offers a vast range of on site services, home visits and multilingual staff; The Tongan Health society uses Tongan-based philosophy and principles and employs specialist skill sets to focus on client outcomes

Clearhead is a free, online, mental health platform. Total Healthcare PHO & Tāmaki Health "orchestrated a magnificent response" to last year's measles outbreak in Auckland.

Louise Shambrook is an ardent volunteer supporting and encouraging people to be active. Mark Shirley is a physiotherapist and CEO of Southern Rehab.

Western Bay of Plenty PHO's Project ERAD is an early alert tool for caregivers in aged care facilities. ProCare and Mercy Radiology have created a new referral pathway to MRI for orthopaedic injuries in primary care

Clinical pharmacists in Hawke’s Bay are working with GPs to address the region’s high rate of opioid prescriptions, with impressive results, while Waitematā DHB's electronic consultation programme (E-consult) is an innovative telecommunication service based on an alliance model between primary and secondary care

Forty-two entrants to the first-ever national primary healthcare awards are excited to find out they are in to win an award. And in the event they don’t win, they can hold their heads high as finalists. There were close to 180 entrants to the awards, which closed last November.  

The deadline for entries into the inaugural NZ Primary Healthcare Awards I He Tohu Mauri Ora is less than a fortnight away

The New Zealand Primary Healthcare Awards | He Tohu Mauri Ora is an opportunity not only to celebrate the successes of health professionals but to also learn from them, says Andrew Gaudin, chief executive of the Pharmacy Guild, which is co-hosting the event