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Cellulitis being treated through Acute Demand; what is the scope of the problem?
In Canterbury, we have the ability to treat patients with intermediate severity cellulitis with outpatient intravenous (IV) antibiotics in the community via our Acute Demand Management Service (ADMS.) This saves many unnecessary hospital stays and is consiFunding proposalsA novel non-surgical approach for anterior cruciate ligament injury
Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear is one of the most common and debilitating knee injuries. Surgery is the preferred treatment with 2,800 reconstruction surgeries per annum costing over $38 million per year.Funding proposalsWellbeing at work - reducing harm and improving health
Annually in Aotearoa New Zealand, it is estimated that between 750-900 people die from work-related diseases and a further 6000 people are hospitalised due to work-related ill-health.Funding proposalsImproving respiratory service outcomes for people with neuromuscular disorders
Neuromuscular disorders (NMD) affect peripheral nerves and muscles, and can cause respiratory muscle weakness, resulting in reduced cough strength, chronic respiratory failure and increased frequency and severity of acute respiratory infections with protraFunding proposalsCo-occurring traumatic brain injury among people with spinal cord injury
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is common among people who sustain traumatic spinal cord injury (tSCI) although rates vary associated with difficulties consistently identifying TBI.Funding proposalsTelehealth: providing timely evidence for equitable models of care
This research aims to advance Māori health by establishing up-to-date robust evidence on successful telehealth design to drive transformative change in an equitable and dynamic way in Aotearoa New Zealand.Funding proposalsCollaborative and comprehensive care of IBD delivered via a digital platform
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which includes Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, is a chronic condition that significantly affects patients' physical and mental health.Funding proposalsResearch collaboration to support effective, equitable immunisation in Aotearoa
Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) has a strong vaccination history, with the National Immunisation Schedule providing a series of publicly funded vaccines for infants, children, pregnant people, and older adults.Funding proposalsHRC publication showcases 20 years of supporting innovative research in New Zealand
Highlights of 20 years of HRC-funded groundbreaking research.NewsAn examination of maternity care services during a crisis event in Aotearoa
Pregnancy and birth are pivotal life events, having the potential to both empower and create inequities. During the last two months, approximately 3,000 pregnant women were impacted by the devastating weather events following Cyclone Gabriel.Funding proposalsCreating and coordinating local informal support
In old age, loneliness is common, kills and yet is avoidable. A higher proportion of older people/kaumātua live alone in Aotearoa-NZ than other OECD countries and thousands of older people/kaumātua report extreme loneliness each year.Funding proposalsImpacts of losing child disability allowance funding in type one diabetes
In NZ, all people under 18 with type one diabetes can apply for a universal child disability allowance (CDA) of ~$53/week, which recognises the extra care needed for a child with a significant disability or illness.Funding proposalsImproving delivery of symptom control for kidney failure
People with kidney failure experience severe symptoms that have insufficient treatment options. Symptoms reduce quality of life and life participation for patients and their whānau.Funding proposalsClassifying complex illness in linked data: Test case with multiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system which causes high levels of disability.Funding proposalsThe Baby heAd Elevation Device (BEAD) Feasibility study
In New Zealand, each year 1,500 term babies are born by cesarean section when the mother's cervix is fully dilated. Cesarean at this late stage is more likely to result in harm to mum or baby, compared to cesarean performed earlier in labour.Funding proposalsAustralian & New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine 2024 Biennial Conference
The theme of this conference is '30 Years of palliative medicine: Constructing, challenging, transforming'.EventSpecial Update 8 August 2023
NewsFuture of Medicine Conference 2023
This conference aims to challenge the status quo of our current healthcare system. It offers the latest cutting-edge science, evidence and practice of how to support patients to live longer, healthier lives.EventMRI-informed computational model for non-invasive detection of brain pressure
Management of several conditions, characterized by high intracranial pressure (ICP), is hampered by the lack of a reliable, non-invasive technique to confidently determine if ICP is elevated. Raised ICP can severely compromise brain perfusion.Funding proposalsHRC Update 31 August 2023
NewsGeoffrey Thorburn Lecture: Distinguished Professor Dame Jane Harding
The Geoffrey Thorburn Lecture, delivered by Distinguished Professor Dame Jane Harding, will be the culmination of an exciting in-person one-day programme of eminent and emerging perinatal researchers from Aotearoa and Australia.EventTaurākautia
Taurākautia is a kaumātua-led kaupapa, which derives its name from the kōrero of our Te Ahuahu kaumātua Wharepapa Mihaka. It embraces the concept of kotahitanga, that the strength of the many rakau bound together is stronger than any one rakau alone.Funding proposalsKoeke -ā kō ake nei
The dissemination of adult koeke stories adapted into children’s books will reach out to the tamariki/rangatahi audience to share the philosophies and values, reflections, and words of wisdom in story form, thereby inspiring, motivating and guiding tamarikFunding proposalsHe Aha Taku Oranga Hauora Mo Apopo
Travel to regional locations to share fact findings from the report He Aha taku Oranga Hauora Mo Apopo.Funding proposalsKo Hine Ko Rua
Military to civilian transition can be a difficult time for defence force men and women. Transition stress leading to serious mental health problems is well documented, in particular, for Māori veterans and their whānau.Funding proposalsIntegrating oral health into the funding and management of diabetic patients
This rangahau will assess how feasible it is to integrate oral health care into the public funding and management of diabetic patients at Ora Toa PHO (Māori health provider), and in the future, across Aotearoa.Funding proposalsNgāi Tai ki Tāmaki Hauora Strategy development
Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki is undertaking a development project to create a hauora strategy aimed at addressing the health needs of their iwi.Funding proposalsRestoring the mauri of Lake Omapere
Restoring the mauri of Lake Omapere is an action-based kaupapa Māori project led by Lake Omapere Trust.Funding proposalsNga Maia Māori Midwives Aotearoa indigenous matauranga development
Nga Maia Trust is emerging as an autonomous Roopu, providing services for Māori midwives, tauira and whānau. It is envisioned we will develop an indigenous and matauranga Māori database in relation to pregnancy, birthing and postnatal care.Funding proposalsReconnecting Ngā Hapū o Te Ahuahu: reindigenising health and wellbeing
Optimal health and wellbeing for Māori involves being connected to tūrangawaewae (ancestral home), whenua (ancestral land), and hapū. Colonisation has disconnected many hapū and disrupted the organisation of hapū.Funding proposalsMāori experience of the criminal justice system in Pare Hauraki
This project will gather whānau narratives (up to 10) about their experience of the criminal justice system in Pare Hauraki (Waiau and outlying hapori).Funding proposalsNgāi Tai ki Tāmaki Health Research Project
Our project aims to identify the health needs and priorities of the Ngāi Tai iwi community in Auckland, New Zealand.Funding proposals