Quality Standards for Diabetes Care Toolkit

Central Primary Health Organisation (PHO), MidCentral DHB and Arthritis NZ work together to offer a free Stanford ‘Living a Healthy Life’ Course for patients and/or their carers/families/whānau to improve their self-management skills to manage their long term conditions in daily life.

The key principles of self-management covered in the course content are:

know and understand your condition

monitor and manage signs and symptoms

actively share in decision-making with health professionals

adopt lifestyles that promote health

manage the impact of the condition on your physical, emotional and social life

follow your care plan, that has been developed in partnership with your health professional.

The course runs for 2–2.5 hours each week, for six weeks in a safe, non-judgmental environment. For further information go to: www.centralhealth.org.nz/?News.

In 2012, the Ministry of Health commissioned the New Zealand Guidelines Group to publish a review of the literature surrounding the effectiveness of behaviour change, including possible interventions. These include:

RapidE: Chronic Care: A systematic review of the literature on health behaviour change for chronic care

Effective health behaviour change in long-term conditions: A review of New Zealand and international evidence

case studies of five New Zealand interventions:

Case study 1: The Heart Guide Aotearoa (HGA) Programme

Case study 2: The Diabetes Self-management Education programme

Case study 3: Māori Diabetes Self-management Education

Case Study 4: The Samoan Self-management education programme for people with long term conditions

Case study 5: Implementation of the Flinders program by a Primary Health Organisation

Health literacy Interventions: A brief summary.

These documents can be found at www.health.govt.nz/publication/effective-behaviour-change-long-term-conditions.