Friday 5: 25 February 2022

Kia ora koutou,

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Friday 5! Where we will celebrate all the wonderful on-going work at the NRHCC. For our new subscribers, please do send through any content that you are happy to share with the wider programmes so we can ensure we are celebrating everyone’s successes!

1. Kai pai! To the team Callum Chapman, Michael Walsh and Leanne Kirton have been working hard to develop a Metro Auckland Primary Care Resilience Tool which allows us to see how Primary Care are doing in terms of being open, any staffing pressures and resource challenges. It can be viewed on a map as shown below and went live this week! This will support collective working between practices, PHO’s and the NRHCC as the system responds to Covid-19. Check out the dashboard here

2. All our Vaccinations sites have been working hard! And have now administered over 1 million doses in all 3 of our DHB’s (Waitemata, Auckland & Counties Manukau). Well done everyone for reaching this milestone. The programme priority continues to focus on our equity targets our Māori and Pasifika communities.

3. Ahead of the borders opening shortly, Prime Minister Jacinda Arden visited our Border team at the Airport to walk through the new arrivals pathway and read through the information pack for arrivals going into self-isolation

4. The Whanau HQ team supported GP’s with the ‘Care in the Community’ and have over 2,000 actively managed cases by GP’s, this went live last week!

5. Thank you to everyone in the team for all the fantastic work and pulling together these past 2 weeks with the current outbreak everyone has adapted to an incredibly challenging environment. We’ve managed to mobilise our workforce to support the outbreak as support our 18 Community Testing Centres. There is a lot to be proud of and we will continue to come together and do our much-valued work to protect our community over the coming weeks.

Looking after yourselves, your colleagues and your whānau

Please ensure that you are continuing to look out for each other during this time. There are a number of ways you can do this, including:

• Rostering: Please ensure you are appropriately rostering time off for everyone across your team, including planning ahead for the next few weeks. All team members should be taking at least two days off per week, ideally consecutively, to ensure you have enough time to recover. During this time you should be resting and spending time with your families, rather than checking emails or volunteering to help out with other activities.

• EAP: Staff can access free, confidential counselling at any time by calling 0800 SELF HELP (0800 735 343).

Please ensure that you’re getting some very much needed rest this weekend and over the days to come, continue to look after each other, your whanau and yourselves.

Have a good weekend everyone.

Ngā mihi,

The PMO Team