Taranaki District Health Board
Private Bag 2016
New Plymouth 4620
New Zealand
Telephone 06 753 6139
Fax: 06 753 7770
Email
: [email address]
www.tdhb.org.nz
Taranaki Base Hospital
Private Bag 2016
New Plymouth 4620
New Zealand
Phone: 06 753 6139
Fax: 06 753 7710
10 January 2022
Hāwera Hospital
Post Office Box 98
Hāwera
New Zealand
Phone: 06 278-9929
Fax: 06 278 9910
Andrew McGregor
Stratford Health Centre Phone: 06 765 7189
Via emails:
[email address]
Opunake Medical Centre
[email address]
(CoastalCare)
Phone: 06 761 7324
[email address]
Pātea Health Centre
[FYI request #17710 email]
Phone: 06 273 8088
Waitara Health Centre
Phone: 06 754 7150
Mōkau Health Centre
Dear Mr McGregor
Phone: 06 752 9723
Re:
Official Information Act
I am responding on behalf of Taranaki District Health Board (DHB) to your OIA requests of 25 November 2021
which were transferred to Taranaki DHB by the Ministry of Health on 9 December 2021. You have requested
the following information:
•
Please provide Guidelines/Procedures for the management of postoperative Urinary Retention (POUR)
•
Please provide Guidelines/procedure for the management/prevention of persistent Postsurgical Pain
•
Please provide Guidelines/procedure differentiating subtypes of primary (idiopathic) constipation
Taranaki DHB does not have specific guidelines or procedures for the above treatments. However,
please note we have a number of guidelines for pain, including the following:
− Acute Pain Management for patient with chronic/persistent pain (+/- on Opioids)
− Caesarean Section post-operative analgesia
− Cannabinoids - comment on the medicinal use of cannabinoids in pain medicine (2019)
− Choosing wisely - Faculty of Pain Medicine (non TDHB)
− Day Stay Analgesia on Discharge Prescriptions for Adults and Children
− Entonox administration and equipment maintenance
− Entonox in ED
− Entonox use in Surgical OPD for Wound and Leg Ulcer Clinics
− Epidural analgesia clinical guideline for adult patients
− Epidural analgesia in Labour clinical guidelines
− Epidural catheter removal guidelines
− Epidural Infusions - Leg Weakness Algorithm
− Epidural prescription (yellow paper) DRAFT
− Epidural/spinal and anticoagulant timelines
− Epidural, Spinal or Deep Plexus blockade anaesthesia in the Anticoagulated Patient
− Helping Children with Pain poster
− Itch management guideline
− IV Opioid protocol for adults
− IV paediatric protocol Fentanyl
− IV paediatric protocol Morphine
− IV paediatric protocol Pethidine
− Ketamine infusion for analgesia protocol
− Lidocaine IV for pain
− Local anaesthetic catheter infusion techniques
− Local anaesthetic toxicity management guideline
− Methadone Programme for Inpatients
− Methoxyflurane Penthrox Analgesia
− Methoxyflurane Penthrox- PIL
− Opioid conversion factors
− Opioid Equianalgesic Chart
− Opioid discharge prescribing tool (DRAFT)
− Opioid dose equivalence FPM 2014
− Opioid Induced Constipation - Bristol Stool Chart (external)
− Opioid Induced Constipation - Guideline
− Opioid Induced Constipation - Conversation Guide (ACPA) Opioid Risk Tool
− Opioids Aware - UK FPM (fpm.ac_uk/opioids-aware)
− Opioids preventing and managing side effects
− Orebro Musculoskeletal Pain Screening Questionnaire (SF)
− Oxycodone prescribing
− Pre-operative Paracetamol for Adults in PACIJ2
− Paediatric analgesia prescription (DRAFT)
− Paediatric Non-communicating children's pain checklist - Postoperative
− Paediatric Non-communicating children's pain checklist - Non-postoperative
− Paediatric Non-drug pain relief poster
− Paediatric pain fact sheet - using medicines at home NZPS
− Pain Assessment Tool: 'Where does it hurt?' poster
− Pain Assessment Tools
− Pain Service- Mini Handbook 2019 (DRAFT)
− Pain Toolkit
− Pain Toolkit for Teenagers
− Patient declining pain relief algorithm (draft)
− PCA bolus reduction
− PCA bolus standing order
− PCA for adults
− PCA for labouring mothers
− HCA setting up
− Perioperative use of antiplatelet anticoagulant medication
− Persistent Pain - ACI Chronic Pain
− Persistent Pain - Retrain Pain Foundation (www.retrainpain.org)
− Persistent Pain - Understanding complex pain poster HIPS
− Persistent Pain - Understanding persistent pain how to turn down the volume
− PIL - Children's Pain Relief medication
− PIL - Epidural (DRAFT)
− PIL - Fentanyl patches for relief of pain (DRAFT)
− PIL - Lidocaine for analgesia (DRAFT)
− PIL - Methoxyflurane
− PIL - Pamidronate and CRPS
− PIL - Pain Education Programme
− PIL - Paracetamol and Codeine
− PIL - Paracetamol and Ibuprofen
− PIL - Paracetamol and Tramadol
− PIL - Paracetamol for pain relief
− PIL - Paracetamol Ibuprofen and Tramadol for pain relief
− PIL - PCA (DRAFT to be uploaded)
− PIL - Persistent Pain Triple Assessment Brochure
− PIL - Tramadol Oxycodone or Morphine for Acute pain
− Post- epidural DC PIL (draft)
− Post-operative nausea and vomiting
− Questionnaire - ePPOC
− Referral guidelines acute and persistent pain
− Referral guidelines APS and PPS during COVID levels 2-4
− Referral to APS form (hard copy only)
− Salcatonin for pain
− Spinal anaethesia post-op (DRAFT)
− Suboxone/Buprenorphine in the peri-operative period
•
Please provide Guidelines/procedure in the treatment of patients after a suicide attempt and/or
suicidal ideation
Please find enclosed a copy of Taranaki DHB’s Suicide Assessment and Prevention Pathway.
I trust the above information answers your OIA request.
Kind regards
Gillian Campbell
Chief Operating Officer
Enc.
