Christmas and New Year Holiday Period
December 19, 2019
POAC OVER THE HOLIDAY PERIOD
Thank you for your support over the year, we look forward to an exciting 2020.
From our team to yours we wish you a Merry Christmas and a safe, relaxing holiday period
POAC HOURS OVER THE HOLIDAY:
The POAC coordinators are taking a well deserved break over the Ch...
POAC Funded ECG for chest pain
December 10, 2019
An internal review of chest pain cases has demonstrated that many claims for ECGs performed to investigate a possible diagnosis of Acute Coronary Syndrome do not align with the Acute Chest Pain HealthPathway
A normal ECG alone cannot rule out Acute Coronary...
POAC funding of X-ray
November 12, 2019
An internal review of radiology cases claimed under POAC has highlighted many X-ray requests that do not align with the plain X-Ray HealthPathway
POAC funded X-ray should be reserved for same day imaging where results will inform immediate management and/or determine r...
POAC funding awaiting ambulance transfer
August 31, 2019
Background
Historically it has not been part of POAC’s remit to fund unavoidable admission i.e. admissions where, from the initial community assessment, it is clear that hospital evaluation is required.
In the current environment, delays in ambulance services continue to ...
Acute Pelvic Pain in Young Women
May 28, 2019
This pathway assists GPs with navigating through the causes of pelvic pain in young women to decide a provisional diagnosis and thereby refer to the correct service, or appropriately investigate and follow-up in the community. Please note there are limited indications f...
Management of cellulitis accompanying an abscess
April 12, 2019
In January 2019 new pathways were published for Skin and Soft Tissue Abscess in Adults, Mastitis and Breast Abscess and Bartholin’s Cyst or Abscess. Communications were sent via Medinz and the POAC blog – click here to sign up
Following review by the regional Antimi...
Changes to Hepatitis C Treatment
February 1, 2019
Hepatitis C Treatment - Update to pathway and claiming process
The Chronic Hepatitis C pathway has been updated for the newly funded direct acting antiviral (DAA) medication, Maviret™.
Maviret™ is the recommended treatment in primary care for a majority of patients with Hepatitis C who do not have cirrhosis:
Cure rate of 99%...
New Abscess Management Pathways
January 31, 2019
Primary Care communications for new abscess management pathways
Auckland Regional HealthPathways has developed three new pathways for abscess management:
Skin and soft tissue abscess in adultsBartholin's cyst or abscess Mastitis and breast abscess
These best practice regionally agreed pathways have been developed with both primary a...
Hospital Referral to Urgent Care/GP Clinic
January 15, 2019
The process for hospital referrals under POAC:
When a patient attends Urgent Care with a hospital discharge summary stating for further POAC funded treatment, this includes the following principles:
The Urgent Care clinic generates the POAC referral/case number when the patient attendsThe initial consult and all treatmen...
Pelvic Ultrasound Funding
November 7, 2018
POAC funds pelvic ultrasound scans for the following conditions:
Suspected retained products of conception beyond Section 88 funded scan time period.
Persistent, heavy PV bleeding lasting more than 2 weeks following miscarriage or termination of pregnancy, or more than 6 weeks post-delivery, to rule out retained products of conception. Fo...
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