Programme

Programme is subject to change. Information will be added as it comes available.

Thursday 4 April

Preconference day
8.00am - 5.30pm	Registration desk open Marlborough Convention Centre Foyer
4.00pm - 6.00pm	Exhibition pack in
7.00pm	Doctors' and nurses' dinner Yard Bar, 30 Maxwell Street
Meetings
8.30am - 1.30pm	Rural Hospital Medicines update, AGM and Registrar Training Day
4.00pm - 5.00pm	Te Roopu Arahi Hui
5.00pm - 7.00pm	NZRGPN board meeting

Workshops
10.00am - 5.00pm	Rural Research Day Cost: $25 for students and registrars, $85 for everyone else, includes lunch and afternoon tea
10.00am - 12.00pm	Talking about alcohol Facilitated by John McMenamin and Sinéad McCarthy, Health Promotion Agency Do you find it sometimes difficult to talk to your patients about alcohol? This workshop will help you. We will present a straightforward way of thinking about alcohol as risk, harm or dependence, and present options for detecting alcohol issues both by screening and in clinical situations. We will help you identify if your patient is not motivated to address alcohol, might be thinking about it, or could be ready to change right now, and give you simple approaches to feel confident in each of those conversations. We will include motivational approaches for use with your Maori patients. This is a non-threatening workshop, easy to participate, and you will leave with practical skills which you can try out on return to your practice. Cost: $30, includes morning tea
10.00am - 12.30pm	'Your community needs you to be prepared'. Developing sustainability to manage your communities. Facilitated by Deb Fitzpatrick, Order of St John Are you and your organisation well trained and prepared for a disaster? New Zealand lies in the Pacific 'Ring of Fire', a zone that encircles the base of the Pacific Ocean, making us particularly vulnerable to natural disasters such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. As an island nation in the 'roaring forties', we are also exposed to the risk of tsunami, storms and flooding. In addition, other hazards such as fire, pandemic or terrorism have the potential to cause widespread damage and take lives. An Emergo Train System (ETS) exercise is an excellent opportunity in real time and without clinical risk for you to test processes and plans already in place or to develop required plans from the evidence gained from your exercise. A realistic scenario has been created for you, your team and fellow colleagues to test your practice preparedness now and to enhance moving forward sustainability managing across your communities. This is an excellent opportunity for clinicians and rural practices to test their response plans for a significant emergency event, a pandemic scenario. Following your ETS exercise, players will have the opportunity for a hot debrief to discuss their exercise experiences and therefore moving forward to update or create new plans to enhance sustainability for their organisation and their communities. Cost: $30, includes morning tea
2.00pm - 5.00pm	Infant Resuscitation Workshop Facilitated by Dr. Stephen Robinson Details to come Cost: $30, includes afternoon tea
2.00pm - 5.00pm	How to start managing and intensifying insulin Facilitated by Sanofi This workshop will cover; - Starting insulin sooner rather than later - Overcoming the barriers to taking insulin - Starting insulin - Intensification options - Insulin titration, basal plus, basal bolus & Premix - Managing Sick day & travel - Managing Type 1 patients in primary care - Managing patients with renal disease taking insulin - Managing patients taking steroids and insulin Cost: $30, includes afternoon tea
2.00pm - 4.00pm	Nurses workshop 45 minute presentation from Michelle Boltz followed by nurses skills session Cost: $30, includes afternoon tea Followed by Rural Nurses NZ AGM

Friday 5 April

Time
8.30am	Conference opening
9.15am	Political session Minister of Health
10.00am	Nurse Practitioners: Providing Sustainable Care Across Diverse Rural Populations In The USA Dr Michelle Boltz Nurse Practitioner, Montana, USA Kindly sponsored by Mobile Health
10.45am	Morning tea
11.15am	Trends in Type 2 Diabetes in New Zealand Bryan Betty, Pharmac	Prostate Cancer Care for the Rural Healthcare Professional Andrew Williams, Auckland Dhb, Moh, Prostate Cancer Foundation	Pioneers: Nurses Responding to the Changing Health Care Context Jean Ross, Otago Polytechnic and Josie Crawley	Update on the National School of Rural Health Felicity Goodyear-Smith, University of Auckland and Garry Nixon, University of Otago	Medtech update

12.00pm	Developing cultural competence in a rural DHB: Early experiences of introducing the Takarangi competency framework Brittany Jenkins, West Coast Dhb	Medicines Adherence – Are there unique issues for rural locations? Dale Griffiths, Zoom Care	Caring in the community - changing tides Siran Carter, Hospice Mid Northland	Whakakotahi and Turanga Health: reaching out into rural communities Jane Cullen, Health Quality & Safety Commission	Achieving Financial Independence Rowena Millar, MFAS
12.40pm	Lunch
1.45pm	Physician Associates in New Zealand: Where Are We Now? Alexandra Kayat,* New Zealand Physician Associate Society*	Health Care Home - retaining the rural values, extended care teams and staying connected John McCaskill-Smith, Pinnacle - Ventures	Outback Australia Juliana Williams, Te tai tokerau PHO	Creating Sustainable Rural health models utilising all the benefits a PHO has to Offer Jude Macdonald, Whanganui Regional Health Network	Transitioning of Ashburton Hospital to a fully generalist medical model of care: a case study Steve Withington, University of Otago Golden Bay Community Health - Our story over the last five years as we settle into our new Integrated Health Care Facility in rural NZ Hannah Cummins, Golden Bay Community Health

2.30pm	45 Years of Obstetrics in a Rural Hospital Clare Ward, Hauora Hokianga	What's hot in cardiology - update on CVD risk assessment and management, Atrial Fibrillation update, introduction to the National STEMI Pathway and Rural Chest Pain Pathway Dr Joan Leighton New treatments for heart failure - a case based discussion on the assessment and contemporary management of heart failure Gerry Devlin	The culture in Medicine and Nursing. Different, yet similar Chelsea Willmott, Empowering Education and Dr Lucy O'Hagan	Why an Interprofessional Program learning experience in the Eastern Bay is benefiting students and communities Yvonne Boyes, Bay of Plenty District Heath Board	Navigating the immigration pathway to attract and retain migrant practitioners Craig Walsh, Immigration New Zealand
3.10pm	Afternoon tea
3.45pm	Eradicating Mycoplasma bovis and managing the impacts on our rural communities MPI speaker to be confirmed
4.30pm	PRIME Update
5.15pm - 6.30pm	Welcome function

Saturday 6 April

Time
7.30am	Medtech breakfast session			ACC breakfast session General Practice Connect project and Primary care portfolio Rural General Practice Contract
9.00am	Keynote presentation Paul Worley Australian Rural Health Commissioner
9.45am	Ki te kotahi te kakano ka whati, ki te kapuia, e kore e whati. When we stand alone we are vulnerable but together we are unbreakable. Isolation and connection in rural and remote mental health. An emergency for men. Dr Hinemoana Elder Professor of Indigenous Health Research at Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, and the Maori Strategic Leader for the Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) for the Ageing Brain
10.30am	Morning tea
11.00am	Rethinking depression and anxiety Bruce Arroll, Goodfellow Unit	Sanofi workshop- Adolescent Type 2 diabetes Dr Ryan Paul, Endocrinologist	Evaluating a model of delivering specialist palliative care services to a rural New Zealand community Amanda Landers, Nurse Maude Association	Type One Strong: What my 8 year old would like you to know about diabetes Marcelane Ballantyne, SCDHB	Medicolegal Issues in Rural Practice – the challenges of geographical isolation Lucy Gibberd, MPS

11.45am	Provision of chemotherapy in a rural hospital using an outreach model: Clinical audit and service review Jane Wright, Ashburton & Rural Health Services	Sanofi workshop - Overcoming the barriers to taking insulin Dr Fiona Crichton, Health psychologist	Rongoa Maori in the age of antimicrobial resistance: Light at the end of the tunnel? Sarah Clarke, Northland DHB and Vijaya Rajakrishnan, University of Auckland	Community Engaged General Practice Ross Lawrenson, The University of Waikato
12.25pm	Lunch
1.30pm	Technological innovations for mental health: Are they making accessing a clinician remotely possible? Leigh Anderson, NZ College of Clinical Psychologists	Bladder Cancer and Cxbladder: My experience as both a patient and GP Tony Birch	Urban vs. rural health disparities in NZ. Can we conclude anything from the data? Garry Nixon, University of Otago	Maori use of Health Services from a Work & Income perspective David Bratt, Ministry of Social Development	Pat Farry Rural Health Education Trust Travelling Scholarship Experience Tash Austin, Pat Farry Trust & Mark Owen-Cooper

2.15pm	'It's rare, but it's there': Diagnosing Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Claire Gooder, Aya Cancer Network Aotearoa	Improving equitable access to services that support mental health and wellbeing in a rural setting Brian O'connell, Homecare Medical	Addressing mental health and lifestyle issues in Te Tai Tokerau youth, a co-design bicultural approach Rhiannon Martel, University of Auckland	Undergraduate Rural Health Immersion Education: Good Medicine or Professional Placebo? Emma Bilous, Otago Polytechnic	the Grow Your Own Rural Schools Visits program Ben Alsop-ten Hove, Grassroots Rural Health Club
3.00pm	Afternoon tea
3.30pm	Keynote presentation Dame Tariana Turia
4.15pm	Future Student Leaders in Rural Health Ben Alsop-ten Hove & Jibi Kunnethedam
5.00pm	Conference close
5.15pm	NZRGPN AGM
7.00pm - 12.00pm	Conference and awards dinner

Sunday 7 April

Time
9.00am - 12.00pm	Network breakfast forum
10.00am - 12.00pm	Student breakfast forum

Sponsors


Breakfast session, Conference dinner, Coffee lounge

Satchel and workshop	Water bottle and fill stations


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