Long-Term Conditions Forum 27–28 February 2020

The Ministry of Health's Long-Term Conditions Forum for DHBs and Primary Care will be held in Wellington on 27–28 February 2020. The purpose will be to showcase examples of innovative programmes that are improving outcomes for Māori and Pacific people, integrating care across services, consumer-centric care and improving mental wellbeing from across the country.

The Ministry of Health in partnership with Health Navigator NZ and Health Literacy NZ are organising a Long-Term Conditions forum to be held 27-28 February 2020 at Te Papa, Wellington.

The title of this year’s forum is 'Transforming Care.'

We want to share what is working locally and regionally, and discuss whether and how these experiences can be applied to other regions. Some of the work shared will focus on service improvement within existing systems, and other speakers will showcase innovation which has the potential to be applied more widely.

Themes for this forum include:

Achieving equity
Improving Māori health outcomes
Improving Pacific health outcomes
Integration across community, primary and secondary care
Integration with social and other services (such as housing support)
Consumer leadership and design
Mental wellbeing

There will be a range of workshop presentations and posters highlighting the best projects and initiatives from around the country demonstrating integrated and coordinated services that lead to positive outcomes for people with long-term health conditions. We also want to highlight national priorities of achieving equity, mental wellbeing, and taking a person and whānau-centred approach to care.

Audience

The intended audience are planning teams and long-term conditions clinical leads from DHBs and Primary Care, Maori, Pacific providers and community or primary teams.
Places are limited, so apologies, registrations are invite only. DHBs and PHOs will receive an invitation early December 2019.

Programme (draft)

The latest version of the programme can be viewed here.

Page last updated: 28 Mar 2022

Day 1 – Thursday 27 February 2020

Time	Activity
9:00	Welcome, karakia and waiata
9:15	Welcome by Deborah Woodley, Deputy Director-General, Population Health and Prevention, Ministry of Health
9:25	Opening address - Associate Minister of Health Hon Peeni Henare
9:45	Keynote - Dr Ole Schmiedel, Type 2 Diabetes and overcoming clinical inertia
10:35	Morning tea
11:10	Dr Allan Moffitt, ProCare: Population Health – achieving equity at scale	Caro Swanson & Rhonda Robertson, Te Pou o Te Whakaaro Nui When experience matters – Mental Health workforce
11:35		Barbara Broome, Consumer Palliative care, Spiritual Care, Artificial Intelligence
12:00	Lunch
1:00	Keynote - John Whaanga, Deputy Director General, Maori Health, Ministry of Health
1:45	Melissa McCreanor & Maureen Van Venrooy, Pegasus Collaborating to improve equity for the missing and the missing out	Angela Aldous & Colleen Bowring, National Heart Foundation and Lisa Porter, Practice/Rural health nurse, Ngāti Porou Hauora Heart health in the community – a new service model?
2:35	Afternoon tea
3:00	Keynote Panel – Professor Jim Mann, Dr Rawiri Jansen , Dr Nina Scott, & Dr Michael Epton: Healthier Lives National Science Challenge
4:10	Taria Tane Mana Tū: A whānau ora approach to Type II diabetes	Dr Michael Epton Community rehabilitation for multiple conditions
5:00	Wrap-up
5:15	Networking at Red Gate, ground floor Te Papa

Day 2 – Friday 28 February 2020

Time	Activity
08:30	Welcome and reflection
08:40	Keynote – Diana Phone & Helen Cant - Integrated medicine initiatives in Community Pharmacy
9:40	Pen Blackmore & Shane Rakei & peer support TBC, Pinnacle Midlands Enhanced primary care to improve Māori health outcomes	David Letele & Ulalei Letele, Brown Butterbean Motivation (BBM), Saving lives of Pasifika and Māori families
10:05	Vivien Williams, WellSouth Shared Care Plans	Mary Roberts, Korowai Aroha Health Centre, Ngamaru Raerino, Eileen Jones & Raewyn Stephens, Ta Taipakeke Ta Taipakeke - Ka pua ka hua te Rata, creating a kaumātua group
10:30	Morning tea
11:00	Poster session
11:30	Dr Helen Lockett & Warren Elwin, Work Counts Honouring employment aspirations	Dr Anna Skinner & Tracey McNeur, Kauri HealthCare Integrated care in provincial NZ
11:55	Mia Carroll, University of Auckland Our People Need Minimally Disruptive Medicine	Nolene Rapana & Roel Austria, Korowai Aroha Health Centre – You talked, we listened and together we achieved! Tihei Mauri Ora: Results of a two year Whanau Ora project
12:20	Lunch
1:15	Keynote – Dr David Codyre - Te Tumu Waiora Integrated model of primary mental health and addictions care and support
2:00	Chiquita Hansen, THINK Hauora, Melanie Taylor & Dr Claire Budge, MidCentral DHB Hearing their voices: The views of people with LTCs and how best to provide self-management support	Dr Api Talemaitoga and Joanna Swanson, HQSC Experience of Pacific People's in healthcare
2:50	Final Keynote: Dr Tana Fishman and Devika Dayal: Transforming diabetes outcomes in a high needs practice through a nurse-led clinic
3:35	Planning – what next?
4:00	Farewell
4:10	Karakia whakamutunga

Keynote speakers	Bios
	Dr David Codyre Consultant Psychiatrist/Clinical lead Mental Health, East Tamaki Healthcare David is a psychiatrist with 30 years experience working in the community mental health sector in New Zealand, in a range of clinical and leadership roles. He has spent the past 17 years leading development of primary mental health programmes, and advocating at a regional and national level for strengthening of primary mental health capacity, along with better support for primary care from secondary mental health services. He takes a holistic approach to his clinical practise, integrating psychiatric, psychological/therapeutic, and integrative approaches to match approaches to care tailored to each person’s needs. David currently works with Tamaki Health, a network of 40 clinics providing team-based primary care services to populations in high-needs areas of Auckland, NZ, where he has lead development of an innovative and comprehensive programme integrated into GP clinics, and supporting patients with both mental health and medical long term conditions.
	Diana Phone Pharmacist Diana is an Early Career Pharmacist. Her work life is currently divided between Waimauku Village Pharmacy, as Clinical Lead for the Owning My Gout Service (CMDHB) and the Safety in Practice Community Pharmacy Programme (WDHB) and as a Professional Practice Fellow at Otago School of Pharmacy. She is also the VP and founding member of the Pacific Pharmacists Association Inc. Diana was the 2017 NZ Pharmacist of the Year.
	Helen Cant Pharmacist Prescriber Helen is currently a Pharmacist Prescriber working in Primary Care in the two general practices in Tokoroa. She has over thirty years of experience as a pharmacist, working in a wide range of roles including community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy and management. Her current role involves working with people to optimise medication regimens and provide health information especially in long term conditions such as Type 2 Diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, COPD, asthma, and gout. She also has a longstanding interest in education and health literacy, in particular providing information about health and medication in ways that people understand. In 2019 Helen was awarded the PSNZ Pharmacist of the Year for 2018 and the 2019 Innovation in Pharmacy Award for her project using continuous blood glucose meters as education tools to enable people with Type 2 Diabetes to better understand what affects their blood glucose most.
	Associate Professor Matire Harwood Ngāpuhi University of Auckland and Papakura Marae Health Clinic Matire (MBChB, PhD) is a hauora Māori academic and GP dividing her time across the Department of General Practice and Primary Care at Auckland medical school, Papakura Marae Health Clinic in South Auckland. In 2017 she was awarded the L’Oréal UNESCO New Zealand ‘For Women In Science Fellowship’ for research in Indigenous health and in 2019 she received the Health Research Council’s Te Tohu Rapuora award for her research to improve Māori health.
	Dr Ole Schmiedel Physician and Endocrinologist, ADHB Dr Ole Schmiedel is a consultant in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and General Internal Medicine at Auckland District Health Board (ADHB) and is also the Service Clinical Director of the Auckland Diabetes Centre. He qualified in medicine from Humboldt University, Berlin, and completed his postgraduate training in diabetes and endocrinology at Cardiff University in Wales. Ole has worked as a specialist in NZ since 2009, initially in the Hawkes Bay, where he played a key role in the transformation of the secondary diabetes delivery model allowing closer cooperation between different service providers. His clinical and research interests include the management of diabetes, obesity and obesity related complications.
	Professor Jim Mann Jim is Director of the Healthier Lives National Science Challenge, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Human Nutrition, and the New Zealand-China Non Communicable Diseases Research Collaboration Centre and; co-Director of the Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research Centre (EDOR). He has been Professor in Medicine and Human Nutrition at the University of Otago and Consultant Physician (Endocrinology) in Dunedin Hospital for the past 30 years. His research has principally been related to epidemiological and nutritional aspects of diabetes and cardiovascular disease, with a special interest in diabetes prevention.
	Dr Michael Epton Mike is principal investigator of the WellConnectedNZ – Te Ranga i te Tira project, which is part of the Long-Term Conditions partnership between the Ministry of Health, the Health Research Council and Healthier Lives. He is Director of the Canterbury Respiratory Research Group, and a community respiratory physician in Christchurch. He has a long-standing interest in understanding the relationship between where people live and their health, especially air pollution and lung health.
	Dr Nina Scott Nina is principal investigator of the Healthier Lives He Pikinga Waiora research project and a member of the Healthier Lives Science Leadership Team. She is a public health physician with the Waikato DHB and works across a range of organisations in political, policy, research and clinical settings, with the aim of improving organisational focus on Māori health. Nina is also Chair of the Hei Ahuru Mowai, the National Maori Cancer Leadership Group.
	John Whaanga John is currently Deputy Director-General Maori Health. The Māori Health directorate has an explicit focus on the Crown’s Treaty obligations to protect and improve Māori health outcomes, by providing strategic advice and guidance on Māori health improvement in a collaborative and integrated manner across the Ministry and the sector. John is affiliated to Ngāti Rākaipaaka, Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāti Rongomaiwahine. In 2018, John was acknowledged in parliament for his work in successfully negotiating a $100m Treaty of Waitangi settlement for Ngā Iwi me Ngā Hapū o Te Rohe o Te Wairoa – this was the culmination of over 30 years work. John began his career in the Department of Conservation in 1989 (working on Treaty of Waitangi policy and negotiations), before moving on to the Ministry of Education (Māori Education Group) in 1991. John originally joined the Ministry of Health in 1993, as a foundation member of the then newly-established Māori Health Directorate, Te Kete Hauora. John then spent six years working in the Ministry, culminating in management roles in both public health and Māori health (as Manager, Te Kete Hauora). In the last six years John has undertaken a number of significant roles in tertiary education, including as: Chief Advisor Wānanga, Tertiary Education Commission; Deputy Chief Executive, Te Wānanga o Aotearoa; and Chief Operating Officer, Taratahi Institute of Agriculture.