The Ministry of Health has identified an aspirational goal for New Zealand to be Smokefree by 2025 and it is funding innovative projects that advance progress towards this goal by targeting vulnerable populations with high smoking prevalence. This training has been developed as part of the National Mental Health Services Smokefree Guidelines Development Project.

This course is for all MH&AS staff including those without direct service user contact, and will give you an understanding of how to apply smokefree best practice principles to everyday practice.

Participants: This course is suitable for all Hawke’s Bay DHB Staff not working in a clinical environment

Duration: 45 Minutes

Course contact: 


About this course 

To ensure that non-clinical staff are aware of how to summon help within their work environment. 

Participants: This module is open to all employees of Te Whatu Ora, Health New Zealand

Duration: 30 minutes

Course contact: elearning@hbdhb.govt.nz

This module has come from our colleagues in Canterbury and the West Coast of Te Waipounamu - The South Island. We thank them for sharing this material with us.

When someone isn't coping, or when we're busy dealing with what's happening around us (i.e. task-focused), we often miss the subtle cues from tāngata [people] around us... and even ourselves. 

Our organisation is a complex place, full of tāngata [people] who unconditionally care for their teammates, especially during times of stress;. Because you're doing this module, you're probably one of them!

This akoranga [learning] aims to help you understand and identify how you can support your colleagues.



Participants: This module is open to all employees of Te Whatu Ora, Health New Zealand

Duration: 30 minutes

Course contact: elearning@hbdhb.govt.nz

This module has come from our colleagues in Canterbury and the West Coast of Te Waipounamu - The South Island. We thank them for sharing this material with us.

When someone isn't coping, or when we're busy dealing with what's happening around us (i.e. task-focused), we often miss the subtle cues from tāngata [people] around us... and even ourselves. 

Our organisation is a complex place, full of tāngata [people] who unconditionally care for their teammates, especially during times of stress;. Because you're doing this module, you're probably one of them!

This akoranga [learning] aims to help you understand and identify how you can support your colleagues.



This course is designed to give some basic and clear information to staff working in the health care sector around the COVID-19 virus, in particular;

  • What is COVID-19
  • The New Zealand Context
  • Symptoms of COVID and how it is spread
  • Protection of self and others
  • Infection Prevention Measures
Professional Development Hours: 0.5 hrs

The Coordinated Incident Management System (CIMS) is a system that defines New Zealand's approach to incident management aiming to build a more proactive incident management response that will increase efficiencies through better coordination of resources. The system works both within and across agencies. 

Professional Development: 2 hours