Recently

• Antibiotics could cure 40% of chronic back pain patients (UK Guardian)
• Reclaiming a population health perspective (England)
• Rating providers for quality: a policy worth pursuing? (England)
• Measuring consumers’ experience of our health system
• Immunisation Week 2013: A time for celebration
• New Zealand Clinical Trials Portal launch
• Patients' experience and satisfaction with GP led walk-in centres in the UK
• Plunket lends its support to World Immunisation Week
• New approach to evaluation of over the counter medicines in Australia and New Zealand
• Living with Kidney Disease: A comprehensive guide for coping with chronic kidney disease
• Waikato DHB team lead the way with health care assistant training
• Regional results from the 2011/12 New Zealand Health Survey
• Kiwis Count Survey
• Kiwis Count: New Zealanders' satisfaction with public services: Quarterly update 3
• 2011/12 NZ Health Survey regional data released
• Making progress with cardiovascular disease risk assessments (Counties Manukau blog)
• Narrowing gap between Māori and non-Māori life expectancy
• Overseas doctors supported to practice here
• Palliative care need and management in the acute hospital setting: A census of one New Zealand hospital
• Nick Erskine
• Impact of the Christchurch earthquakes on smoking status
• Developing a free open-source smartphone application for studying tobacco use in the field (observing smoking in vehicles)
• Julienne Faletau
• Smoke, smoking and cessation: The views of children with respiratory illness
• Better sooner heart care for central North Island patients
• Public health workforce development survey 2012
• The application of peer review at the Health Research Council
• Pertussis: Halting the epidemic by protecting infants
• An update on the management of gout
• Health sector: Results of the 2011/12 audits
• Bladder cancer patients aged over 70 less likely to get curative treatment (England)
• Clinical Portal is keenly awaited by clinicians (MidCentral DHB)
• Real-world factors affecting adherence to insulin therapy in patients with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes mellitus: A systematic review
• Understanding tobacco industry pricing strategy and whether it undermines tobacco tax policy: The example of the UK cigarette market
• Making the case for continuous learning from routinely collected data (U.S.)
• Smokefree legislation associated with drop in asthma admissions in England
• Pasifika breast screening rate surges (NZ Herald)
• Tobacco Control Update - 17 April 2013
• Five-step plan to reduce falls among patients
• Otago health research supported by lottery grants
• PHARMAC releases easy guide to funding applications
• Digital Healthcare Week 2013 (Singapore)
• Utilizing experience-based co-design to improve the experience of patients accessing emergency departments in New South Wales public hospitals
• Work begins to develop consumer experience indicators (HQSC)
• 8th International Neonatal Nursing Conference (Northern Ireland)
• A survey of tobacco dependence treatment guidelines in 121 countries
• A survey of tobacco dependence treatment services in 121 countries
• Structured personal care of type 2 diabetes in general practice reduces complications. A 19 year follow-up of a Danish study
• Waikato DHB gears up for a colourful World Immunisation Week (22-28 April)
• Exploring the role of ICT in the provision of integrated care — Evidence from eight countries