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Guide to Support Rangatahi to Quit Vaping

A five-step clinical pathway (screening, assessment, readiness, pharmacotherapy, and follow-up) for health professionals to support adolescents and young adults to quit vaping.

English Health professionals
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NZ Child Asthma Guidelines

These guidelines are designed to aid health professionals in delivering asthma care in the community and in emergency departments, providing simple, practical and evidence-based guidance.

English Health professionals
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LDCT Screening Offers Targeted Approach for Detecting Lung Cancer Earlier in People at Highest Risk

This factsheet demonstrates lung cancer risk factors beyond smoking, to inform targeted screening eligibility criteria that boosts early detection without overdiagnosis.

Lung Cancer English Health professionals
LDCT targeted approach

Strong Economic Case for Implementing LDCT Screening for Lung Cancer

This factsheet demonstrates how lung cancer is the costliest cancer globally, making investment in LDCT screening economically justified.

Lung Cancer English Health professionals
Strong economic case

Screening Creates Opportunities to Detect Lung Cancer Earlier

This factsheet shows how LDCT screening meets key public health screening criteria and can shift lung cancer from a late-diagnosed, often fatal disease to one detected early and treated effectively.

Lung Cancer English Health professionals
Opportunities to detect earlier

Reducing Deaths from Lung Cancer is Essential to Strengthening Overall Cancer Control

This factsheet demonstrates lung cancer's outsized share of global cancer deaths, and how screening dramatically improves survival outcomes compared with unscreened populations.

Lung Cancer English Health professionals
Reducing deaths

LDCT Screening can Reduce Inequities by Targeting People Most at Risk of Lung Cancer

This factsheet covers how targeted LDCT screening can reduce socioeconomic inequalities in lung cancer outcomes by tackling access barriers and late presentation.

Lung Cancer English Health professionals
Reduce inequities

AIR Asthma Action Plan

This ‘Anti-Inflammatory Reliever (AIR)’ therapy asthma action plan shows how to control your asthma long term, and helps to identify what to do when you are well, unwell or need help in an emergency.

Asthma English Te reo Māori Samoan Simplified Chinese Tongan Health professionals Patients
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Child Asthma Symptom Diary

This resource is a symptom diary for healthcare practitioners to give to their child patients and their parents/caregivers, and is used in conjunction with the Child Asthma Plan.

Asthma English Te reo Māori Samoan Tongan Health professionals Educators
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Proposed Clinical Pathway to Support Rangatahi to Quit Vaping

A resource for health professionals to assess and support adolescents and young adults (AYA) on their quit vaping journey

Vaping English Health professionals Educators
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Lung Cancer Surgery

This brochure explains lung cancer surgery, including when it may be an option and the different types of procedures used to remove lung tumours.

Lung Cancer English Health professionals
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Chemotherapy Treatment Factsheet

This brochure explains chemotherapy as a treatment for lung cancer, including how it works, when it is used, and how it may be given.

Lung Cancer English Health professionals
chemotherapy

Diagnosing and Testing for Lung Cancer

This brochure explains how lung cancer is diagnosed and tested, including imaging scans, biopsies, lung function tests, staging, and tumour testing.

Lung Cancer English Health professionals
diagnosing and testing for lung cancr

Lung Cancer - Know The Symptoms

This poster demonstrates the symptoms of lung cancer.

Lung Cancer English Health professionals Patients
Lung Cancer know the symptoms poster

Living with Bronchiectasis – Things to Know

This comprehensive ‘checklist’ is for adults with bronchiectasis. It contains information that will help you manage and understand your bronchiectasis symptoms.

Bronchiectasis English Health professionals
bronchiectasis things to know

Bronchiectasis Action Plan

​This self-management plan is for adults with bronchiectasis and is to be completed by healthcare practitioners, together with their patients.

Bronchiectasis English Health professionals Patients
bronchiectasis action plan

How to Use Inhaler Device Chart

An inhaler device use chart, with step-by-step instructions on how to use all of the commonly prescribed inhaler devices in New Zealand.

Asthma English Health professionals Patients
How to use your inhaler device

COPD Action Plan

This self-management plan for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is to be completed by healthcare practitioners, together with their patient

COPD English Te reo Māori Samoan Tongan Simplified Chinese Health professionals Patients
copd action plan

COPD Patient Handbook

​This handbook provides information about COPD, from the various symptoms you may experience, to the different types of medication you may be prescribed.

COPD English Health professionals Patients
COPD Patient Handbook-

NZ COPD Guidelines: 2025 Update – Quick Reference Guide

A quick reference guide to the NZ COPD Guidelines: 2025 Update. This concise summary resource is designed for health practitioners working in everyday practice in primary and secondary care settings

COPD English Health professionals
copd guidelines