Norman Sharpe, Tim Corbett and Barbara Docherty

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Creating a Change of Heart – Launching the Revised CVD Guidelines Handbook

Prof Norman Sharpe will introduce the new handbook, and discuss the changes it incorporates including modified. He will also discuss the role primary care practitioners play in providing systematic CVD screening of the adult population.

Norman Sharpe was the inaugural Chair of the New Zealand Guidelines Group and a member of the expert advisory group for the New Zealand Health Strategy 2000. His research interests have been broad spanning preventive and clinical cardiology. He is currently Emeritus Professor in the University of Auckland, Medical Director of the National Heart Foundation of New Zealand and Chair of the CVD Guideline Revision Team.

One Heart Many Lives:  Getting Men into Primary Care CVD Screening

Tim Corbett will discuss the One Heart Many Lives programme developed by PHARMAC. Maori and Pacific men die 10-14 years earlier than European men and this programme is especially for Maori and Pacific men, to encourage them to get their heart checked, know more about heart disease and what is likely to happen if it goes unchecked and pass this message on to their whanau.

Using 'man friendly' communication and built from the cultural and social elements that make Maori men strong, Tim will discuss how the programme has successfully inspired men to make change, lose weight, increase physical activity and stop smoking.  

Tim Corbett (MBS DipPH BPEd) heads ThinkSpace, a consulting agency specialising in turning strategic visions into daily reality in the health sector. Tim has a background in business and health and has worked with organisations such as the Heart Foundation, the Cancer Society, ACC, DHBs, CTRU, PHARMAC and a range of PHOs. Married with 5 children he is multilingual being able to speak toddler as well as teenager dialects.

Enablers and Barriers to Screening in Primary Health Care

Barbara Docherty will briefly describe the patients' world of personal behavioural practices and an insight as to why so many cannot make healthy lifestyle behaviour choices. Do health professionals have unrealistic expectations of themselves and their patients once cardiac vascular risk has been assessed? Do patients feel that health professionals simply do not know how to get to the heart of the matter? 10 years of TADS research culminated in the development of a unique communication tool and behaviour change process, following identification from adults and young people that the true obstacles to changing behaviour are not quite what we might think.

This session will be of interest to all primary health care professionals and those who work at first point of contact across the disciplines interested in reducing the impact of CVD in New Zealand.

 
Barbara Docherty (RN, Post Grad Dp Primary Health Care) has led the TADS Brief Opportunistic Interventions training programme for the past ten years. Previously based in the Goodfellow Unit and formerly a practice nurse for 23 years, Barbara is a Clinical Lecturer for the School of Nursing at the University of Auckland, working on research related to primary health care nursing workforce development and behavioural change strategies based on Mark Twain's premise that ‘People would sooner die than change......and most do'