A New Zealand regional work-related sprains and strains surveillance, management and prevention programme: study protocol.

Background: The impact and costs associated with work-related sprains and strains in New Zealand and globally are substantial and a major occupational and public health burden. In New Zealand around one-third of all sprains and strains workers compensation (ACC) claims (2019) are for back injuries, but shoulder and arm injuries are increasing at a faster rate than other sprain and strain injuries (ACC, 2020). A need exists for a change to current approaches to sprains and strains prevention, to more effectively manage this significant and persistent problem in workplaces.

Square peg round hole - Time to customise a concussion assessment tools for primary care: The New Zealand experience? A call for a GP-SCAT.

In rugby union concussions are a player welfare concern, particularly in the community game where there is often minimal sideline medical support. New Zealand Rugby (NZR) has three primary goals around the management of concussions in the community game: (1) players with a suspected concussion are removed from the game or training; (2) players are referred into primary care for a diagnosis by a general practitioner(GPs) (doctor in primary care); (3) prior to returning to contact training that they are medically cleared by a doctor. Given their role in the diagnosis and medical clearance of players with a concussion, GPs are a key stakeholder in the concussion management pathway.

Measuring care alignment in general practice consultations for people with long-term conditions: an exploratory study.

INTRODUCTION Chronic care Model (CCM) aims to make the care of people with long term conditions (LTC) planned, proactive and patient-centred. The patient assessment of chronic care (PACIC) and our recently developed modified PACIC (MPACIC) allow patient and provider views to be compared. AIM To explore the use of measures of care provision and receipt in primary care long-term conditions management and to assess congruity between patient and provider views of support.