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Smoother referral process for GPs

GPs can refer patients to us electronically via CareSelect, HealthLink (our EDI is NZhepfnd), Best Practice or Medtech. Alternatively GPs can email us.This new process aims to support better collaboration between health partners and ensure all people living with hepatitis get the help, monitoring and treatment they need....

Local GPs a focus for hepatitis competition

The Whakatane-based organisation is giving away a morning tea to the GP clinic with the most creative hepatitis display board. Entries are welcomed from around the country but foundation chief executive Susan Hay says she’d particularly like to see local entries. The foundation has a long history in the Eastern Bay; shortly after forming in 1984 it implemented a seroprevalence study that saw 93 percent of Kawerau’s population tested for hepatitis B. The results showed that the hepatitis B vi...

Community programme helps in hepatitis treatment

We are running a new community programme to give GPs the chance to host Fibroscan® clinics in their surgeries. Fibroscans are simple tests that determine whether liver damage is present. It is one of the most important things someone living with hepatitis can do to assess the health of their liver. International guidelines recommend adults with hepatitis B have a Fibroscan to assess for liver disease progression. Th...

Registrations open for nurse conference

The Hepatitis Foundation of New Zealand’s 2019 national nurse conference will be held in Whakatane.The annual conference, on from October 3-4, aims to keep nurses in the primary care, prison, public health and midwifery fields up to date with hepatitis news and developments. This is the first time it has been held in the Eastern Bay.While the foundation is based in Whakatane, last year’s conference was held in Wellington to make it accessible for nurses around NZ. Previous conferen...

New CEO for World Hepatitis Alliance

The World Hepatitis Alliance is pleased to announce Cary James as its new CEO. Cary brings decades of experience in public health programmes and health policy at national and international levels. He has worked extensively in hepatitis and HIV response, having developed innovative and successful campaigns and collaborated with numerous civil society organisations during his time as a member of the leadership team at the UK’s Terrence Higgins Trust. He has been part of international advisory pa...