Goodfellow Unit Webinar: Childhood eczema, Innovative ways of managing

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This Goodfellow Webinar: Innovations in managing childhood eczema was held on Wednesday 16 November 2016, 7:30 - 8:30pm

The webinar was introduced and moderated by Professor Bruce Arroll, Director of the Goodfellow Unit, with valuable input and insights from Jessica Tiplady.

The webinar covered questions and issues on managing childhood eczema, with Jessica's insights on her clinic's nurse-led eczema clinic and its positive benefits. There was also be a brief discussion on useful tools to help manage eczema, including the Red Rash Made Easy online resource.

Throughout this event participants had the opportunity to type questions to Jessica live via the onscreen system.

Jessica is a practice nurse who has worked in a medium sized Auckland practice for the past 5 years. She is currently completing her Master’s Programme at the University of Auckland as part of the Nurse Practitioners Training Programme. One of her interests is looking at how practice nurses can use proactive systems to improve patient care. She currently manages the eczema and asthma programme for children at Greenstone Clinic.

Bruce is a medical graduate from the University of Auckland and spent a year at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario 1981-2 training in general practice. His current research interest is in rapid non-drug treatments of mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety. He spends three half days per week in clinical practice working at Greenstone Family Clinic in Manurewa in South Auckland. The rest of time is at the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care at the University of Auckland site at Tamaki.