Te Whatu Ora presents Te Tiri Whakāro: Sharing Knowledge.
This webinar will cover:
- Diabetes technologies in Aotearoa New Zealand 2024 - Continuous glucose monitors (CGM) and insulin pumps have an increasingly important role in managing diabetes, particularly in light of recent funding proposals by Pharmac. Dr Tom Wilkinson will provide practical guidance to allow prescribers and patients (including those with type 2 diabetes) to gain maximum benefit from CGM, focusing on the interpretation of CGM data. He will also provide an update on closed-loop ("artificial pancreas") systems currently available.
- Bowel Screening - Drs Susan Parry and John McMenamin will present an update on an overview of the National Bowel Screening Programme, including how to increase participation in NBSP for Māori and Pacific patients. They will also cover:
- use of reminders and opportunistic conversations
- options to plan a practice-wide approach
- using demonstration kits effectively
- following up FIT kit requests.
- Clinical updates - Dr Sue Tutty.
As always, we will answer as many questions as possible during this session.
Presenter
Tom Wilkinson
MBChB FRACP
Tom is an endocrinologist based in Ōtautahi/Christchurch, where he is a full-time PhD candidate through the University of Otago investigating closed-loop systems in type 1 and type 2 diabetes, under the supervision of A/Prof. Martin de Bock and A/Prof. Ryan Paul.
Presenter
Susan Parry
Associate Professor Susan Parry is a Gastroenterologist and Clinical Lead of the National Bowel Screening Programme. She was also the Ministry Clinical Lead for the Waitemata Bowel Screening Pilot and previously chaired a number of advisory groups on population screening for colorectal cancer. Susan was a consultant Gastroenterologist at Counties Manukau for 18 years and head of the department there for almost five years. She is also National Medical Lead at the New Zealand Familial Gastrointestinal Cancer Service and holds an honorary position with the University of Auckland. Susan was previously President of the New Zealand Society of Gastroenterology and the International Society for Gastrointestinal Hereditary Tumours.
Presenter
John McMenamin
John is the GP/Primary Care lead for the National Bowel Screening programme and lead for the NBSP Primary Care Campaigns 2023 and 2024. John is a Whanganui GP and involved in health equity research in primary care.
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