Health professionals

Health professionals

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Information aimed at health professionals. This section is under development and will increasingly include information written specifically for the range of health professionals who are working together in national child and youth health clinical networks in New Zealand.

Guidelines for best practice to support practitioners offering services within the Newborn Metabolic Screening Programme (NMSP).

Information for health professionals about palliative care for children. Includes the following: Allow natural death / Te wa aroha (information which, in addition to an end of life care plan, can be used instead of a not for resuscitation order); Child and family wishes document, UK (developed to support, and promote, end of life planning for children with life-limiting conditions); End of life care plan / Te wa aroha (a sample end of life care plan for health professionals to use as needed).

Videos that are particularly relevant to health professionals.