Local arrangements need to be in place to ensure that people with diabetes receive personalised advice on physical activity from an appropriately trained health care professional, or as part of a structured educational programme.
Smoking cessation
Comprehensive implementation guidance is provided here: www.health.govt.nz/publication/new-zealand-guidelines-helping-people-stop-smoking.
Implicit within the Guidelines for Helping People to Stop Smoking is an assumption that health care workers have the prerequisite knowledge, attitudes and skills to support smokers in ways that maximise the smokers’ chances of stopping smoking permanently.
