WellSouth services for primary care
Our role is to partner with you to strengthen clinical leadership, support workforce wellbeing, and enable practices to thrive in a complex, evolving system.
Find our key programmes, resources and services below.
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Access & Choice
Access and Choice, Tōku Oranga, are partners in practice, members of the clinical team. Find information, clinical tips and contact details to support your partnership with Health Improvement Practitioners, Health Coaches and Community Support Workers.
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Clinical Advisors
Meet the clinical leadership team working with health professionals to support delivery of high-quality, evidence-based, equity-focused programmes.
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Extended Primary Care
Extended Primary Care (EPC) supports practices to manage acutely unwell patients, to reduce ED and hospital usage and to support equity of access for priority populations.
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Thalamus data
Thalamus is a tool WellSouth uses to provide practices and authorized users access to reports and dashboards for both clinical and business intelligence. Find useful information and tips.
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Health Care Homes
The Health Care Home Continuous Improvement Toolkit is a series of online resources which help general practice to implement some of the core components of HCH.
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Funded programmes
This Service Schedule gives a brief summary around eligibility and Programme Fees as well as links to programme information sheets.
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Nursing orientation
A guide to provide some structure to your orientation and access opportunities for growth and learning.
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RN Prescribing course
Nursing Council of New Zealand (NCNZ) authorise two types of designated RN prescribing under the Medicines Act (1981).
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Workforce training and professional development
Workforce training calendar, WellSouth primary care leadership course, CPR training for general staff, HealthPathways webinar series, HealthLearn access, Te Whatu Ora training and education booklet.
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Managing a General Practice
Timesaving advice and from our WellSouth experts, Karen Bolch and Glen Knol.
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Foundation Assessments
The College's Quality Framework is made up of two programmes - Foundation and Cornerstone.
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Practice Partners
Our Practice Partners assist practices with the delivery and evaluation of primary health services.
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Practice Manager Forums
We often hold virtual Practice Manager Forums. Access the recording and slides here.
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LTC Nurses
Our long-term conditions nursing team support general practice teams and their care for conditions including diabetes, COPD, gout, heart disease and more.
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Primary Care Dietitians
WellSouth has a team of New Zealand Registered Dietitians that cover all of Otago and Southland.
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Former Refugee Support
WellSouth supports Former Refugees as part of the New Zealand Refugee Quota Programme.
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Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacist Prescribers
WellSouth employs several Clinical Pharmacists who work within primary care to support and educate whānau on how to get the best out of their medication.
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Fracture Liaison Service
WellSouth is part of the national ‘Live Stronger for Longer’ movement, working to help reduce the risk of falls and fall injuries for older people in the Southern District.
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Take Control of Your Diabetes
Take Control of Your Diabetes is a free programme developed by our long-term conditions team to empower people to self-manage their type 2 diabetes.
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Advance Care Planning
Investing in patient and clinical practice, WellSouth has crated a programme to support the process.
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Long-term Conditions Programmes
A health programme in Otago and Southland to support people with long term conditions to live well.
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News and updates
Here's the latest news from WellSouth.
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Practice Fees advice and resources
Information for general practices regarding practice fees and amending them.
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Integration work with secondary care
The New Dunedin Hospital is NZ’s largest health infrastructure investment. WellSouth has a team trying identify and fill gaps to achieve true primary, community, secondary integration.
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