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Healthy Workplaces, the DPT team at work

Diabetes Projects Trust Healthy Workplace programme aims to help workplaces to become a "health supporting environment".   In this picture we have Catherine, Bani, Diana and Trish ready to go with a cooking demonstration onsite at a workplace.  Other examples of the sorts of things they carry out include workplace assessments, advice to management, diabetes health checks, advice for healthy food options for canteens and vending machines, interactive presentations, support with hea...

The DCSS...our data is on the move!

The fully anonymised diabetes related DCSS dataset, as collected by our wonderful auditors from participating Primary care practices over a more than 20 year period, is now on the move.   In the early years, the DCSS was classified as research under ethics conditions. In the later years it was recognised as a quality improvement service and funded by DHB's (or predecessors) with oversight by an executive group made up of specialist advisors.The stated purposes of the audit were to imp...

In the News:

The title of the article in 'Our Auckland',  is "Growing community gardens in Albert-Eden".   Local Boards have an important role in supporting initiatives that help the urban environment, and can also help the health of their locals.  Albert Eden Local Board have a longstanding commitment to community gardening, providing some additional funding to Gardens4Health to deliver support to some of the gardens, 10 currently, in that area.    There is more informatio...

Annual Activity Report - 2017-2018

Below is a link to the Annual Activity report covering the April 2017 to March 2018 year period for Diabetes Projects Trust.   If for printing, it is in A5 paper size, flip on long side.Financial information for the year is in a separate document available on the Charities Commission website.Key points in this report: passing of long time Kaumatua Bill Wiki.  Resignation of long term Board members Pamela Tregonning, Henry Van der Heijden, Caran Barratt Boyes.   Also Sneh...

Brett McGregor on why diabetes is important to him

We thoroughly enjoyed working with Brett McGregor back in 2015 on the MasterClass, Keep Calm and Learn to Cook pilot programme which was delivered into South Auckland secondary schools.   This article by Caroline Wood was on the June 2018 Blog of Diabetes New Zealand (and 2016 DNZ magazine) has Brett talking about his efforts to make a difference, including his mahi on our programme.   https://www.diabetes.org.nz/blog/2018/5/30/keep-calm-and-learn-to-cook...

The DCSS inhouse Team say Farewell

As previously posted, the Diabetes Care Support Service (DCSS) Quality improvement audit of primary care has now closed data collection and service delivery after more than 20 years in the community.  This is obviously huge for our organisation and the people involved.  In a previous post we thanked those involved: "We wish to offer our sincere thanks to all those who participated.   Whether they be patients, practice staff, or others such as contract and fundi...

Closure of DCSS Audit of Primary Care - June 2018

Data collection for this service has closedThe Diabetes Care Support Service (DCSS) audit provided support to GP Practices across Auckland for over two decades from when it was established in the early 1990's by Professor David Simmons and others.  From it's original base at Middlemore Hospital the service moved into the Otara community and continued to develop and deliver across Auckland under the name of Diabetes Projects Trust.   The highly skilled DCSS auditors, over the years...

Poster NZSSD - Diabetes Care Support Service - Closure in 2018

in 2018 the DCSS Audit came to it's conclusion after over 20 years of working in Primary Care in Auckland.   This poster was taken to the NZSSD conference describing the final activities around reviewing the service.    Authored by Karen Pickering, Kate Smallman, John Baker, Rick Cutfield, Tim Kenealy, and Brandon Orr-Walker.    See other posts around the DCSS and it's activity and closure.   Should you want more information please contact admin@diabetesfo...

William (Bill) Wiki, Kaumatua, friend and advocate RIP

It was with heavy hearts that we learned of the unexpected passing of our long time Kaumatua, supporter and friend, Bill Wiki.    Bill was many things including a former army gunner and territorial, Justice of the Peace, Board member on the Otara Community Board and he acted in an advisory capacity for many other organisations and groups.  Bill had many awards for local participation and volunteer work, and in 2005 was recognised with the Queen's Service Medal.  He was an ext...

Introducing New Board members

We are delighted to confirm two new Board members and would like to introduce Dierdre Mellamphy and Gerhard Sundborn.  Brief bios below:Deirdre is a business owner, project manager and qualified chartered accountant and has worked across multiple industries.  She brings a range of experience with her to help prepare Diabetes Projects Trust to be robust and agile going forward as a productive and viable entity into the coming years.    More information available at Dierdre's L...

Introducing our new Board Chair - Dr John Baker

Dr John Baker has been in the role of Acting chair since the resignation of long standing Chairperson, Pam Tregonning.  John has been a member of the Diabetes Projects Trust Board of Trustees since the late 1990's.   He was confirmed as Chair by unanimous vote at the routine Trust Board meeting in November 2017.John is an endocrinologist who has worked for Counties Manukau DHB for many years.  He is a strong proponent of research and describes himself as "a diabetes physician...

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...

Otara Kai coLABoration with Healthy Families

Diana and the team have been working with Healthy Families with the The Otara Kai coLABoration which has "a focus to support the Otara community to prioritise food choices for wellbeing".  We are all excited to see how it goes! Introducing Kai Colab https://healthyfamiliessouthauckland.nz/out-and-about-september/    and more information here: https://healthyfamiliessouthauckland.nz/kai-colab-changing-the-food-environment-in-otara/    Photo f...

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...