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Kia ora koutou, Please find attached a new version of the COVID Vaccine Operating Guidelines. This is version 5.0. The following changes are included:
Please ensure your local sites and any other relevant teams or individuals receive a copy of the updated Operating Guidelines. Click here to view the COVID-19 Vaccine Operating Guidelines V5 Kia Ora koutou, Some of you may have attended the MoH’s weekly primary care webinar yesterday and will have seen some of the videos included below. For those of you who didn’t please see below a number of links to video resources relating the Covid Vaccination campaign. Feel free to use these as appropriate and share them with you providers:
Ngā mihi, GPNZ Kia ora koutou, The latest version of the COVID-19 Operating Guidelines, version 4.0, is attached. Changes in this version include:
Please circulate the latest version of the Operating Guidelines to your staff and sites as appropriate. Click here for the Vaccine Operating Guidelines Nga mihi, Kia ora, A Waikato DHB COVID-19 Vaccination Update is available here. It provides information on the vaccine programme rollout in the Waikato region. Ngā mihi CovidSupport COVID-19 Testing Guidance for the Health Sector and updated HIS criteria: 4 March – 14 April 20213/3/2021
Kia ora koutou, Click here for the COVID-19 Testing Guidance We have undertaken our regular review of our COVID-19 Testing Guidance for the Health Sector and I’m writing to let you know there is now an updated version of this document, replacing the testing guidance that was in force from 28 January – 3 March 2021. For the period ending 14 April 2021, we’ll continue to focus our efforts on quickly testing all people with symptoms of COVID-19 in all regions, with the possible exception, subject to clinician judgment, of the elderly and young children. I’d like to thank those of you who have continued to support the response to the recent community cases in Northland and Auckland, which have been the more transmissible B1.1.7 variant first identified in the United Kingdom. Ongoing vigilance regarding atypical symptoms of COVID-19 As part of our current response, we are reminding the public and healthcare workers to familiarise themselves with the more atypical symptoms of COVID-19. These less typical symptoms include muscle aches and pains and fatigue (which individuals may attribute to causes such as exercise), fever, diarrhoea, headache, nausea/vomiting, or confusion/irritability. If there is not another likely diagnosis, and they meet the HIS criteria or they are contacts of a case (including casual contacts), then test. Focus for the next six weeks From 4 March to 14 April 2021, our focus remains on continuing to implement a sufficient level of testing across Aotearoa New Zealand to ensure that any cases of COVID-19 are quickly identified and managed. This includes responding to the recent community cases and continuing to worth with DHBs and PHUs to provide ongoing assurance that COVID-19 continues to be contained both at the border and in the community. As we learn more about these latest community cases, our testing focus may change. We will stay in touch and will continue to work closely with you as the situation develops. In the community, our focus for the next six weeks remains on: · testing anyone with symptoms of COVID-19 in all regions, with the possible exception, subject to clinician judgment, of the elderly and young children. · testing regions/groups that have been underrepresented in recent data, in particular Māori communities. Noting testing rates have consistently been below rates for non-Māori but have improved in the last two months. · continued testing at the border, in line with the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Required Testing) Order 2020 · testing as part of any wider case or outbreak investigation. In particular, targeted testing, for example by geographic locations or for specific populations, should be considered in this setting · promoting basic public health actions – distancing, hand washing and drying, responsible hygiene, and staying home if sick. These are things that everyone can do, and we know they work with COVID-19, including any new variants. · as advised previously, anyone presenting to hospital with an acute respiratory infection, or who develops symptoms while hospitalised, should be tested for SARS-CoV-2, irrespective of region or other risk criteria. Exceptions can be made, subject to clinical judgement, for young children and the elderly. The full current advice for the period ending 14 April 2021 is available online. As always, the assessment and testing for COVID-19 is at no cost to individuals. Kind regards, Dr Ashley Bloomfield Director-General of Health Kia ora tatou katoa As we get closer to the roll out of the COVID vaccine I thought I would share this link and if you didn’t see it, it’s a vaccination video to share with whānau This is a story that was aired on Te Ao with Moana. In the story, clinical immunologist’s Dr Anthony Jordan and Dr Maia Brewerton join Dr Rawiri Jansen and Moana to explore why some whānau are nervous about COVID-19 and the vaccination. Please, share and encourage whanau to watch it and share with their networks, so they can make an informed choice. Click here to watch the video |
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