Endorsed medical education for GPs

The Working with Māori e-learning assists workers to increase their understanding of working effectively with Māori tāngata whai ora and whānau to improve health outcomes. These skills are essential for all people working in New Zealand health services.

The Working with whānau e-learning reflects the values, attitudes, knowledge, and skills of working effectively with whānau. Workers with this set of skills will ensure that whānau receive support to achieve their health and wellbeing goals. These skills are essential for all people working in New Zealand health services.

The Tātou tātou being with people and whānau e-learning aims to assist health sector workers to develop their understanding of how to engage effectively with tangata mātau ā-wheako (people with lived experience) and whānau to help them achieve their wellbeing goals.

Being trauma-informed: Principles and actions is a resource for kaimahi and organisations to create safe and supportive spaces. Based on Keeping it Real | Kia Pono te Tika, this essential level resource is for all kaimahi working in health, developed by Te Rau Ora, Le Va, Whāraurau and Te Pou.

The resource helps us understand what a trauma-informed approach in an Aotearoa New Zealand context means, why it’s important, and shows examples of what we can do every day to make a difference.

The Trauma-informed and responsive approaches e-learning will enhance your trauma-informed knowledge and skills to apply in everyday practice. Topics include trauma in Aotearoa, trauma-informed approaches in health settings, trauma responsive approaches for working with people and whānau, and importantly, worker wellbeing.

The Keeping it Real | Kia Pono te Tika Peer coaching micro-learning offers brief, practical, easy-to-follow lessons of 5-15 mins that can help you strengthen your supervision and coaching skills and become a more effective leader. Here’s a quick look at what’s inside:

1. Reflecting on coaching – Learn how reflection can enhance your coaching approach.
2. Setting up a peer coaching conversation – Discover how to structure your coaching conversations for better results.
3. Reinforcing the coaching model – Deepen your understanding of the ICA coaching model and develop core skills like listening, curiosity, and compassion.
4. The "Unreasonable friend" – Learn how to challenge your coachee in a supportive yet accountable way.
5. The coach's perspective – Understand when and how to share your own perspective to broaden your coachee’s thinking.

This e-learning is for the opioid substitution workforces including specialist services, Ara Poutama, primary health care/general practice settings and community pharmacies. It promotes a national standard for effective OST service delivery and enhances the skills and attitudes of the workforces involved in OST provision.

The Substance Addiction (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 2017 e-learning introduces the process and roles involved in the SA(CAT). A series of e-learning training modules are available for the addiction workforce to develop the knowledge and skills to work effectively within the parameters of the Act.

The updated substance withdrawal management guidelines reflect current best practice for substance withdrawal management with support from the New Zealand Ministry of Health. This resource is designed to provide readily accessible and appropriate information for health practitioners and provides guidance for safe substance withdrawal management in a range of settings.

The Equally Well: Evidence update July 2020 looks at achieving physical health equity for people with experience of mental health and addiction issues.

The Equally Well prescribing toolkit was developed to assist the conversations between a prescribing health professional and a person accessing their service about wellbeing and physical health. This includes specific implications of the medication(s) they are, or may be, prescribed and information on what could be involved in discontinuing the medication.

The 26-slide Improving primary care for people with mental health or substance-use conditions presentation is designed for primary care clinicians to enhance their understanding of diagnostic overshadowing. This happens when there is an attribution of presenting symptoms to an existing mental health or substance use diagnosis rather than a potential co-occurring physical health issue. Overshadowing can prevent people from getting the health care they need and contributes to poorer health outcomes in people with mental health or substance use conditions. The slides highlight strategies and system-level actions for clinicians to recognise overshadowing and ensure everyone receives the physical health care they deserve.

Arataki is an approach applicable to all leaders in Aotearoa New Zealand and provides valuable resources for leadership at a personal level, a team and a service level.

Worker Wellbeing is a component of the Let’s get real framework. Links to resources are included with a range of short videos where health sector workers and leaders talk about worker wellbeing.

The Mental Health and Addiction Screening and Assessment resource has been updated. The resource was first published in 2011 by Matua Raḵi and promotes the use of standardised mental health and addiction screening and assessment processes. Screening and assessment are vital for informing appropriate therapeutic intervention and support approaches to support tāngata whai ora wellbeing, for example, as part of a stepped care pathway. These processes are used in many mental health, addiction, and broader health settings, including primary care, community, and inpatient settings.

Screening aims to identify the immediate, presenting reason tāngata whai ora require support. Comprehensive assessments formally explore the nature and extent of the presenting issue(s) of why tāngata whai ora feel they need support.

The updated resource is for all kaimahi in the mental health and addiction sector who are interested in learning more about why screening and assessment are important in their practice.

Te Pou have developed a series of e-learning modules to support the workforce in application of the 2022 changes to the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act Guidelines.

The intent of the e-learning package is to support the workforce in adopting a person-centred, human-rights based approach to situations where the Act is used. In this series there are three e-learnings, the first e-learning is a general introduction to the changes for anyone in the health workforce, the second for the mental health workforce and the third for the specialist mental health workforce who administer the Act.