Tauawhitia te Wero: Embracing the Challenge: National mental health and addiction workforce development plan 2006-2009

Tauawhitia te Wero – Embracing the Challenge (doc)
02 Dec 2005
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The Ministry of Health funded the Centre for Health Services Research and Policy (The University of Auckland) to produce a research report on general practitioners’ (GP) preferred sources for information when making prescribing decisions, and the value that GPs place in these resources.

Prescribing Information Resources: Use and preference by general practitioners: An exploratory survey of general practitioners provides information on the sources of information GPs use to inform their prescribing decisions.

During June and July 2004, 116 GPs were interviewed by phone, and were asked a number of questions regarding prescribing:

  • the sources of information GPs use
  • the factors that impact on GPs’ prescribing decision
  • the importance attributed by GPs to each sources
  • the sources that GPs value the most
  • further information that GPs might like to assist them in
  • prescribing decisions.

This report is also accompanied by an overview that presents the key findings.

The views expressed in this report are the personal views of the authors and should not be taken to represent the views or policy of the Ministry of Health or the Government.

Purpose

This plan aims to provide a framework for the future by setting out key directions and actions that need to be led or contracted by the Mental Health Directorate, Ministry of Health, over the next four years.

It is also intended as a high-level ‘umbrella’ plan providing national direction on key issues for all other workforce planning in the mental health and addiction sector.  It does not replace the more detailed workforce development and planning activities of the national mental health and addiction programmes and centres, District Health Boards (DHBs), non­governmental organisations (NGOs), and the regional mental health and addiction workforce co-ordinators.

This plan also links to and supports broader health workforce development plans, including the Pacific Health and Disability Workforce Development Plan (Ministry of Health 2004), Rāranga Tupuake: Māori Health Workforce Development Plan: Discussion document (Ministry of Health 2005c), and the Future Workforce 2005–2010 strategic framework and action plan (DHBNZ 2005).

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