The countdown begins for our last round of regional training forums for 2016. Our one-day forums will be hosted in Auckland, Palmerston North and Dunedin, where the Ministry infrastructure services will deliver an action packed agenda for clinical practitioners and the public health extraordinaire. Register now to secure your attendance.

The winter round of regional training forums concluded with an awesome two days in Porirua. For those attendees who wanted copies of the Day One presentations, please find the powerpoints here – including the presentation and contact details of our guest speaker on Local Territorial Authority law Grant Hewison. We are currently editing a range of videos from the trainings which will be made available soon. In the meantime, keep an eye out for the new resources being released soon by Te Kākano relating to the active learning public health workshops.

Ministry infrastructure services are currently planning for a national forum in the first quarter of 2017. To help kick start the planning, take the poll on whether we need to include an awards evening. Take the Poll

May and June have been busy for NCS with three out of our four regional training forums being completed. This week the South Island forum was held in Christchurch, and next week completes this round of forums with our last training in Porirua. Each two-day forum was unique with a mixture of national and local presentations and workforce development workshops. The national presentations included Grant Hewison, a specialist lawyer in local government law, presenting on local territorial authorities responsibilities under the Gambling Act, Richard Taylor AKA ‘the new Derick’ and Eileen Campbell...