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NZ COPD Guidelines: 2025 Update

The NZ COPD Guidelines: 2025 Update revises the NZ COPD Guidelines, published in the New Zealand Medical Journal in February 2021.

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NZ Asthma Guidelines - Quick Reference Guide

A quick reference to all the algorithms, tables, and charts published in both the NZ Child Asthma Guidelines and the NZ Adolescent and Adult Asthma Guidelines in one easy-to-read guide.

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nz asthma guidelines quick ref guide

NZ Adolescent and Adult 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.

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Peak Flow and Symptom Diary

This diary is a useful tool to help patients identify asthma symptoms and triggers, and better understand their asthma.

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Peak Flow & Symptom Diary

Child Asthma Action Plan

This asthma action plan is for healthcare practitioners to complete alongside parents/caregivers and their child.

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Child Asthma Action Plan - Cover Image

Inhaler Devices Identification Chart

A handy chart summarising all the inhaler devices currently available in New Zealand, including funding and carbon footprint information. Updated June 2025

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Inhaler Devices Identification Chart

Talk to Your Doctor About Standing Up to Bad Cholesterol

This checklist is for people with high cholesterol or a family history of heart disease to bring to their doctor to help understand their LDL levels and discuss next steps.

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Talk to your doctor about standing up to bad cholesterol

Living with COPD Conversation Guide

This checklist is for people living with COPD to discuss with their GP to help identify heart disease risk factors, overlapping symptoms, and warning signs of a heart attack.

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Living with COPD Talk to your doctor about heart disease

Pregnancy and Heart Disease Conversation Checklist

Pregnant people and those who have recently given birth can bring this checklist to their healthcare provider to identify heart disease risk factors and symptoms.

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Pregnancy and Heart Disease Conversation Guide

4-Stage Asthma Action Plan

This self-management action plan for adolescents and adults (aged 12 years and over) is to be completed by healthcare practitioners, together with their patients.

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3-Stage Asthma Action Plan

​This self-management action plan for adolescents and adults (aged 12 years and over) is to be completed by healthcare practitioners, together with their patients.

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CRFNZ - 3 Stage Asthma Action Plan