The School Based Health Services team has created wallet-sized cards for school leavers to take to their general practice in order to support the transition of their health records from their school health clinic.
Waikato practices may soon begin to see these brightly designed cards with instructions inside telling the practice how to contact the School Based Health Services team to transfer these notes.
For more information contact schoolclinicsadmin@pinnacle.health.nz.
It’s great to finish 2020 on a high thanks to the hard work of our B4 School Check nurses. Your efforts have helped ensure children are receiving their B4SCs on time and this couldn't happen without you all, it’s a real team effort.
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View detailsThe Foundation programme represents a collection of legislative, regulatory and clinical requirements for all general practices in Aotearoa New Zealand.