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Poster - Community Nurse Led Project Development (with Rotary) 2017

Poster presented at the 2017 NZSSD conference describing the development of a project in partnership with Rotary to make a practical difference, coming up with a resource to deliver educational, motivational and update sessions in the community.   Poster authors Kate Smallman, Karen Pickering...

End of an era - Farewelling our long-standing Board Chair, Pamela Tregonning

For Diabetes Projects Trust, Pam has been the steady hand at the helm since the 1990's.  She has guided the organisation through ups, downs, changes of direction, challenges and of course plenty of successes.   As volunteer Chairperson, Pam has turned up at least four times a year for Board meetings.  Pam has over that time sent and received countless letters and emails, made and received phonecalls, been present for many other meetings and signed copious documents over the y...

In the News: FIZZ, public health meets big business

This heading "Anti-sugar group pulls logo after complaint from Coke" by RNZ.  The story is along the lines that the new FIZZ logo was launched at their conference however Coca-Cola raised concerns that it resembled the ubiquitous coke bottle.    Full article hereIn the article "FIZZ member Bodo Lang, a marketing expert at the University of Auckland Business School, said Coca-Cola raised concerns about the shape being too much like a Coke bottle.  He said FIZZ considered ...

Healthy Food and Drink policy for organisations...Healthy Auckland Together

Diabetes Projects Trust has been part of many interagency efforts over the years to take advantage of greater collective energy and reach to effect change.   Working with the HAT (Healthy Auckland Together) group has seen participation in a number of initiatives, this is an example where our Workplace Programme can align with others in the development and implementation of useful resource to be used in the community.  This document is a sample food/healthy eating policy for workpl...

Annual Activity Report April 2015-March 2016

We are pleased to present the end of year report for the April 2015 to March 2016 year.  This version is different from usual, shorter and as it is designed to be printed in a custom format it may not be suitable for printing.   Please see financials in a separate document, or on the Charities Commission website....

Access to Medications - Kate supports an Editorial in NZMJ

The title of the editorial in the NZ Medical Journal is "Access to diabetes drugs in New Zealand is inadequate", authored by Jeremy Krebs, Kirsten Coppell, Pip Cresswell, Michelle Downie, Paul Drury, Ann Gregory, Timothy Kenealy, Catherine McNamara, Steven Miller, and our own Kate Smallman.   This is well worth a read, pointing out how far Aotearoa is with medication access relating to Diabetes treatment.   NZMJ 10 June 2016, Vol 129 No 1436 ISSN 1175-8716 © NZMA www.nzma.or...

Poster - Who are the young people with Type 2 diabetes seen in Primary Care in CMH?

Poster at NZSSD, using DCSS data collected from primary care in the Counties Manukau Health area, describing characteristics of young people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. This cohort had ages 16-26, 47% Pacific, 34% Māori, 18% other ethnicity.  Average BMI was 35.6.   A key question raised was whether individuals were being missed due to lack of screening in the age group....

Award for Masterclass Cooking programme in schools

Congratulations to Angela Tsang and team on this pilot programme being named a finalist in the 2015 Community Health and Wellbeing section of the ADHB Health Excellence awards!Thanks to all those who worked on, participated in, provided feedback on, and supported the programme.    Funders of the pilot included DPT, CMDHB, Countdown, GS Hall Company LTD and PickMee Apples.   More information here...

Annual Activity Report - 2014-2015

Annual Activity report for the April 2014 to March 2015 Year period.   Financials available in a separate document.Front cover a composite of Annual Report covers going back to 2000....

In the news - DPT Countdown MasterClass

An article from the Eastern Courier about the DPT Countdown programme being delivered into secondary schools as a pilot.   The programme was designed and lead by DPT's Nutritionist Angela Tsang and is being successfully delivered with hosting by celebrity chef Brett MacGregor (winner NZ MasterChef 2010) who created a range of healthy recipes suitable for the audience of teens in the South Auckland setting.  Evaluation indicates the programme is very well received by students and t...

Poster - Online Survey of Nurses as role models for healthy eating and being active 2015

Poster describing part two of mixed methods research by Karen Pickering as part of her Public health masters thesis.   The first part was a qualitative look at attitudes, behaviours, barriers and enablers through interviewing carried out with 9 nurses.  This poster covers the results of an online survey of a wider group that further looked into points identified in the interviews.  Among the key findings were that most of the nurses who responded felt that role modelling heal...

Publication - DCSS - Predictive risk model for all-cause mortality in type 2 diabetes

Publication in Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice from Tom Robinson, Raina Elley, Tim Kenealy and Paul Drury made use of the DPT run DCSS data collected from Primary Care.  Primary care data was looked at from a large national multi-ethnic cohort of patients with type 2 diabetes in New Zealand and linked mortality records was used in a prospective cohort design to develop a predictive risk model for 5-year risk of mortality. It was then validated using information from a sepa...

Poster - Countdown MasterClass cooking show for schools

Poster that was presented at NZSSD conference in 2015.   It describes the pilot intervention designed to be delivered into 14 low decile secondary schools in the Counties Manukau Health area, and evaluation results from two schools delivered so far.  Support was provided by CMH, Countdown Supermarkets, GS Hall Company Ltd and PickMee Apples...

GDM Registry Project Pilot

Diabetes Projects Trust was delighted to be part of an innovative pilot project with Counties Manukau District Health Board and multiple stakeholders with an interest in Gestational Diabetes (GDM), along with Koray Atalag of The National Institute for Health Innovation at the University of Auckland. The aim was to set up a GDM registry with the capacity to support screening women for type 2 diabetes after pregnancy with GDM, set up prompts/reminders for annual screening, and include informa...

Publication - Standards-based development of Clinical Registries, the GDM pilot

Diabetes Projects Trust supported groundbreaking work on a pilot registry for women with Gestational Diabetes.    Koray Atalag, Aleksandar Zivaljevic, Carl Eagleton and Karen Pickering are authors on this paper "A Standards-based Approach to Development of Clinical Registries - Initial Lessons Learnt from the Gestational Diabetes Registry" which went to the 13th Annual Health Informatics NZ (HINZ) conference in Auckland in 2014.  Abstract text is as follows "Gestational diabetes h...

In the News: Pacific Scoop, diabetes in the Pacific

Article by Marcus Bank, journalism student, in the Pacific Scoop.  Talking about diabetes in the Pacific including describing aspects of scale, causes and what is being/can be done. Kate Smallman, Nurse Specialist from DPT talks about aspects of the Lifestyle programme taking a train the trainer approach....

From our friends at Diabetes NZ

Nice interview with Kate Smallman in an article in the Autumn edition of the Diabetes NZ magazine, profiling our organisation.   It makes a great follow-up to our 21st that was attended by a number of people from Diabetes Auckland, including manager John Denton.https://issuu.com/diabetesnewzealand/docs/diabetes_autumn_2014...

Poster - Healthy Workplace Programme Evaluation 2014 NZSSD

Diabetes Projects Trust Healthy Workplace Programme, which forms part of the MOH funded Lifestyle programme was evaluated as described in this poster taken to the NZSSD conference in 2014.   Results were that the programme was evolving over time, some workplaces experienced changes, senior management and leadership support and motivation was crucial, and the programme was valued by participants who would readily recommend it.     Authors Kate Smallman, Yvonne Williamson,...

Poster NZSSD - Nurses as Role models for Healthy Eating and Being Active

Poster presented at the 2014 NZSSD conference by Karen Pickering with results from the qualitative component of her mixed methods research for her Masters degree in Public Health.   This exploratory study looked at the idea of nurses as role models for healthy lifestyle behaviours, their attitudes, how they applied health related behaviours to themselves, and the barriers and enablers impacting their ability to be role models.    Tim Kenealy supervisor and poster co-author.&n...

Celebrating 21 Amazing Years

Diabetes Projects Trust has celebrated 21 years.   Where to take the actual official starting date from was a bit of a challenge, was it when the first project started, was it this document or that...the decision was eventually taken that 2013 would be THE year!Much time was spent going back through old records, asking current team members who they were still in touch with, trawling social media, and examining names on documents, posters and  presentations in order to identify ind...

Poster - Diabetes Care Support Service - 2013

A poster was created describing the DCSS, Diabetes Care Support Service quality improvement audit being carried out in Primary Care across Auckland.   Prepared by Dr Faye Clark, Helen Hegley, Eileen Howard, Meryl McEnery and Sara Morton.    ...

Publication - Derivation and validation of renal risk score

https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/36/10/3113/30366/Derivation-and-Validation-of-a-Renal-Risk-Score   October 2013, Volume 36, Issue 10, Diabetes Care.   This study by Raina Elley et al used our DCSS primary care database (non-identifiable) as validation for a national dataset with the intention of coming up with risk models to help predict ESRD in people in Primary Care with Type 2 diabetes....

Presentation of funds raised to Christchurch Diabetes Team

Kate and Karen started their quest to raise funds for the team at Christchurch Diabetes service after being affected by hearing about the devastating experiences in the Christchurch earthquake of February 2011.   Finally, two years later, the cheque has been handed over after things taking a bit longer than expected, including having the cancellation of the first Ironman back in 2012 and many other challenges.  Of course, none of the challenges compared remotely to what our c...

Poster - Health Psychology and Diabetes in Pregnancy at CMDHB

Poster  about health psychology in relation to diabetes in pregnancy at CMDHB.   This is part of a project where health psychologist Heidi Baxter was employed by DPT to work on projects relating to health psychology, particularly in Diabetes In Pregnancy....

Poster - Gestational Diabetes, women's stories - IDF 2013

Exploratory qualitative research where nine women who had had GDM who had attended the CMDHB diabetes in pregnancy clinic in 2011 were interviewed looking at sources of knowledge, what knowledge they had, barriers and enablers for using knowledge.  Thematic analysis was carried out.   This poster of findings was presented at the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) conference in 2013.   ...