Hauraki PHO is currently sitting 34th out of 35 PHOs for Smoking BA, with five weeks to go to the end of Q4. These resources have been created by Dr. John McMenamin/GP, MOH Primary Care Champion for Tobacco and include a powerpoint on having conversations during virtual consultations. Please share with the whole team.​

Tēnā Koe,
​This World Smokefree Day, the Cancer Society are questioning why cigarettes are still being sold in thousands of shops throughout Aotearoa. There are no restrictions on where smokes are sold, even though they kill two-thirds of people who smoke and are R18 products.

We want New Zealanders to ask themselves - should smokes only be sold in R18 specialist tobacco shops?

• Our World Smokefree Day poll is live. We’d love you to take part in the poll and share it to your Facebook page. It will be open for a week-10days. Please go to: https://www.facebook.com/cancersocietyNZ/
• The Smokefree Shops website has been updated - For other information and activities happening for WSFD, go to this website: https://www.smokefreeshops.org.nz/
• Please join Hāpai te Hauora and their campaign inviting YOU to tell them what being smokefree means to you here: www.tobaccocontrol.nz. Or on these Facebook pages: https://www.facebook.com/tearahaora/   https://www.facebook.com/tobaccoelimination/

Kia ora koutou,                                                                                                                                
The Waikato District Health Board is providing a limited pool of funding for the administration of Non-Acute Iron Infusion Therapy in the primary care setting. The funding expires on June 30, 2020 and provides for secondary care referred iron infusions to general practice by clinicians. Hauraki PHO is eligible for a total of 47 treatments.