Programme
The "National Rural Health Conference 2022" activity, has been endorsed by The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners (RNZCGP) and has been approved for up to 20 CME credits for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) purposes. Certificates of Attendance are no longer required by the College. You can log your CME hours for attendance directly into your RNZCGP CME portal.
The College of Nurses Aotearoa (NZ) Inc is delighted to Endorse the National Rural Health Conference 2022.
Nurses attending the conference can be allocated the appropriate Professional Development Hours for the
actual hours they have attended over the duration of the conference.
| Time | Session | |||
| 9.00am - 12.30pm | Maternity emergencies in rural practice Facilitators: Kendra Short, rural community midwife, Rhonda Robertson, Elaine Gray and College education team members | |||
| 9.30am - 12.30pm | FACT Workshop Prof Bruce Arroll | |||
| 11.00am - 5.00pm | Division of Rural Hospital Medicine - Registrars' Day | |||
| 1.00 - 5.00pm | Rural Health Research and Education workshop | |||
| 1.00 - 4.30pm | Maternity emergencies in rural practice (repeated) Facilitators: Kendra Short, rural community midwife, Rhonda Robertson, Elaine Gray and College education team members | |||
| 1.00 - 4.30pm | General Practitioner Referred ACC funded MRI Kindly sponsored by ACC | |||
| 1.30 - 4.30pm | FACT Workshop (repeated) Prof Bruce Arroll | |||
| 5.00 - 6.00pm | Division of Rural Hospital Medicine AGM | |||
| 5.00 - 7.00pm | Welcome reception (amongst exhibitors) Kindly sponsored by ANZCO Foods | |||
| Time | Session | ||||
| 8.30 - 8.40am | Mihi whakatau | ||||
| 8.40 - 8.45am | Whakanoa Russell Riki, Te Rōpū Ārahi | ||||
| 8.45 - 8.50am | Welcome and housekeeping Adrian Te Patu, Conference MC | ||||
| 8.50 - 9.10am | Conference opening Rev Bill Nathan, Board Member, Hauora Taiwhenua, Chair, Te Rōpū Ārahi Dr Grant Davidson, CEO, Hauora Taiwhenua | ||||
| 9.10 - 9.35am | Ministers address Hon Peeni Henare, Associate Minister of Health | ||||
| 9.35 - 10.25am | Panel and Q&A: Developing a system that will create a rural workforce explosion Dr Shane Reti, National Party Spokesperson Adjunct Prof Ruth Stewart, Australian National Rural Health Commissioner Riana Manuel, CEO, Te Aka Whai Ora Anu Kaw, President, NZMSA Moderator - Prof Ngaire Kerse NZOM | ||||
| 10.25 - 10.55am | Morning tea | Paramanawa | ||||
| 10.55 - 11.25am | Keynote: Update on Health Reforms Riana Manuel, CEO Te Aka Whai Ora | ||||
| 11.30am - 12.20pm | Keynote: Redefining inequities and disparities for rural New Zealanders Prof Sue Crengle, A/Prof Garry Nixon | ||||
| 12.20 - 1.15pm | Lunch | Te Kai o Te Rānui | ||||
| 1.15 - 1.50pm | Keynote: Resilient professionals in a post COVID world Dr Sven Hansen, Founder, The Resilience Institute | ||||
| 1.55 - 2.30pm | Lightning talks (five mins for each presentation) Northland rural hospital medicine training programme: An update “Grow your own midwives”: Midwifery education to sustain rural maternity services Chatting about the Chathams Not your usual suspects | ||||
| 2.35 - 3.00pm | Concurrent 1a New Zealand’s Rural Hospitals in 2021 – what you told us (25 mins) | Concurrent 1b Procedural sedation and analgesia in a Rural Emergency Department: Outcomes and safety data (25 mins) | Concurrent 1c Local after hours Telehealth service – Practice Plus (25 mins) | Concurrent 1d Let’s make a difference: Opportunities for primary health care excellence and sustainability (25 mins) | Concurrent 1e COVID care in the community: An exploration of equity, hapori design and community led care through stories (55 mins) |
| 3.05 - 3.30pm | Would New Zealand's Rural Hospitals please stand up: An exploratory qualitative study (25 mins) Dr Katharina Blattner | “A pain in the neck”: Supporting assessment of strangulation in rural communities (25 mins) Dr Clare Healy | Māori health pathway development in Telehealth delivery (25 mins) Mary Lose | COVID-19 impact on general practice: Rural-urban differences Dr Kyle Eggleton | |
| 3.30 - 4.00pm | Afternoon tea | Paramanawa | ||||
| 4.00 - 4.25pm | Concurrent 2a Defining rural NZ hospital catchment boundaries and their populations (25 mins) | Concurrent 2b Enrolled nurses: An opportunity not to miss (25 mins) | Concurrent 2c Telehealth growth in Aotearoa New Zealand (25 mins)
| Concurrent 2d Understanding barriers to diabetes eye screening in a large rural general practice (25 mins) | Concurrent 2e COVID response in rural Norway – a qualitative study (25 mins) |
| 4.30 - 4.55pm | Beyond exposure: Immersive community engaged education for rural practice (25 mins) Prof Roger Strasser | Nurse-led follow up of breast cancer patients in Canterbury (25 mins) Natalie James | Barriers to obesity management in rural general practice: A qualitative patient perspective (25 mins) Kimberley Norman | Barriers and facilitators to accessing to quality cardiovascular care for rural Indigenous peoples: Scoping review (25 mins) Taria Tane | |
| 5.00 - 5.30pm | Keynote: Academics becoming advocates Adjunct Prof Ruth Stewart, Australian National Rural Health Commissioner | ||||
| 7.00pm till midnight | Conference dinner and 30th birthday celebrations Kindly sponsored by Pegasus Health | ||||
| Time | Session | |||||
| 7.30 - 8.45am | Breakfast session: Asthma - the important bits Dr Buzz Burrell Kindly sponsored by Astra Zeneca | Rural General Practice | Te Whare Taumata Tākutatanga Taiwhenua Chapter meeting Tea and coffee and served | Rural Hospitals | Te Whare Taumata o Ngā Hōhipere Taiwhenua Chapter meeting Tea and coffee served | Students of Rural Health Aotearoa | Te Whare Taumata o Ngā Tauira Taiwhenua O Aotearoa Chapter meeting Tea and coffee served | Te Whare Taumata o Whānau Whānui Chapter meeting Tea and coffee served | |
| 9.00 - 9.45am | Keynote: Collective Resilience: How you and your team can support each other through challenge and uncertainty Dr Lucy Hone and Dr Denise Quinlan | |||||
| 9.50 - 10.20am | ‘Tarai ite kauvinga’ - capacity building in remote communities Dr Ruonamakin Rui, SMO, Cook Islands Ministry of Health Dr TeAriki Faireka, SMO, Cook Islands Ministry of Health Dr Joel Pirini (Te Rarawa), Kaitaia Hospital Dr Katharina Blattner, Pacific University of Otago Dr Kiki Maoate, Clinical Advisor, Cook Islands Ministry of Health and Pacific University of Otago | |||||
| 10.20 - 10.25am | A new consumer advocacy group for health consumers Ernie Newman, Convenor, TUANZ health Consumer Advocacy Group | |||||
| 10.25 - 10.30am | The launch of the Mobile Health Scholarships Mark Eager, CEO, Mobile Health | |||||
| 10.30 - 11.00am | Morning tea | Paramanawa | |||||
| 11.00 - 11.25am | Concurrent 3a The University of Auckland rural stream programme (25 mins) | Concurrent 3b “I need to push” virtual reality (VR), birthing women, and the rural health practitioner (25 mins) | Concurrent 3c PRIME, after-hours and urgent care for rural communities (55 mins) | Concurrent 3d Dealing with difficult interactions with colleagues (25 mins) | Concurrent 3e Rural Health Research Workshop: Time to start local in rural health services (75 mins) | |
| 11.30 - 11.55am | Developing a National Primary Care Research Network: Rural stakeholders' views (25 mins) Dr Carol Atmore, Dr Abigail Pigden | The mentoring relationship in midwifery: Valuing the mentor’s role in a rural setting (25 mins) Mary Kensington, Shanti Daellenbach | Rural interprofessional simulation-based learning – why, how, what and when (55 mins) Dr Marc Gutenstein, Dr Steve Withington, Dr Mark Smith, Craig Jones, Tracey Reid (presenting virtually), Mark Eager, Dr Margaret Fielding | |||
| 12.00 - 12.25pm | Use of the framework for remote rural workforce stability in Northern Norway and Colombia (25 mins) Dr Anders Svensson | Rural midwifery in Aotearoa: Findings from the ‘sustaining rural midwifery practice’ study (25 mins) Dr Rea Daellenbach, Mary Kensington | Understandings and experiences of climate change in rural general practice in Aotearoa – New Zealand (25 mins) Krystyna Glavinovic, Dr Kyle Eggleton | |||
| 12.25 - 1.25pm | Rural Nurses New Zealand | Te Whare Taumata O Nēhi Taiwhenua O Aotearoa Chapter Meeting | |||||
| 12.25 - 1.25pm | Lunch | Te Kai o Te Rānui | |||||
| 1.25 - 2.15pm | Keynote: Mātauranga Māori approach to health Dr Ihirangi Heke | |||||
| 2.20 - 2.45pm | Concurrent 4a Identifying threshold concepts in rural longitudinal integrated clerkships; a qualitative exploration of medical students’ experiences (25 mins) | Concurrent 4b Effects of cyclical deep pressure applied by the FLOWpresso on sleep and anxiety (25 mins) | Concurrent 4c What next for rural education and research? Lessons and challenges from establishing the Rural Health Academic Centre Ashburton (RHACA) (25 mins) | Concurrent 4d Workplace health checks and diabetes screening in Northland (25 mins) | Concurrent 4e Rural health training: Our piece of the pipeline – shaping a better rural workforce future (75 mins) | |
| 2.50 - 3.15pm | Risk stratification of severe COVID-19 infection in Northland (25 mins) Niel Kulkarni, Sam Fu-allen | The importance of distraction: Falls prevention and dual-task training (55 mins) Lily Purdon | Gaining better and national employment conditions for doctors in rural health (55 mins) Lloyd Woods | Retirement - a bright beacon or an oncoming train (55 mins) Hamish McPhail | ||
| 3.20 - 3.45pm | General surgical care in Taranaki; are we serving rural populations well? (25 mins) Sarah Cowan | |||||
| 3.45 - 4.15pm | Afternoon tea | Paramanawa | |||||
| 4.15 - 5.00pm | Keynote: The mindset of the modern explorer - lessons from extreme environments Lydia Bradey | |||||
| 5.05 - 5.30pm | Conference close | Poroporoaki | |||||