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While wider Victoria welcomes new regions into the HealthPathways fold, Melbourne continues to make positive strides towards the merger of its two sites.

The presence of the Western Victoria HealthPathways team at the launch seminars for Gippsland and Murray has been hailed as a big success and heralds more community mentorship for new regions in the future.

The positive benefits of having lead writers meet their clinical editors and coordinators in person has been one of the main takeaways from the successful launch events recently held for new regions Gippsland and Murray.

A compelling case for system change has been put forward in Cairns, the home of the newest member of the HealthPathways Community. Cairns HealthPathways held a two day launch event in late February which saw regional stakeholders and influencers from the HealthPathways Community take to the stage.

The Northland HealthPathways Team have pulled out all the stops since they launched last November and have already localised nearly 40 pathways in just four months. Subjects as varied as dermatology, endocrinology, gynaecology, haematology, neurology, and older person’s health have all been included in the mix to give Northland HealthPathways a sturdy base of localised content to grow from.

Over the coming weeks, we'll be releasing some minor updates to the HealthPathways Admin System (Dot). Many of these updates won't work with Internet Explorer 8 and below. We're encouraging HealthPathways teams to check and upgrade their browsers to the latest version.

In response to recent international concerns, the Canterbury HealthPathways team have developed a Zika Virus pathway. To quickly localise this pathway for your region, please contact your lead writer via DOT.

This year has been a fantastic time of growth, with more regions joining the HealthPathways Community in the last twelve months. What a great encouragement it has been to see the enthusiasm with which HealthPathways has been taken up and used to make a real difference for patients and clinicians. In case you’re lacking in holiday reading, I've listed a few of the more interesting tongue-in-cheek Christmas journal papers for you to enjoy!

Auckland DHB improvement specialist, Paul Birch and the Auckland’s Starship Child Health Gastroenterology team recently received the “Health Excellence Award for Excellence in Community Health and Wellbeing”, for their transformation of the way the local healthcare system cares for children diagnosed with coeliac disease in Auckland. Patients and clinicians can now make better use of their time at Starship’s Gastroenterology Service thanks to the development of a new Coeliac Disease in Child...

Launched at the end of November, the pilot stage of the HealthPathways Provider Directory will test the system’s ability to manage provider information and publish it within HealthPathways.

Between Thursday 24th December and Monday 4th January, the Streamliners office will be open normal business hours and closed for the statutory holidays. However, most of the HealthPathways Writing Team will be taking a holiday.

On Wednesday 25 November, the Northland HealthPathways Team hosted a one-day seminar during which members from the HealthPathways Community introduced HealthPathways to local general practitioners and hospital clinicians.

Project Officer for Clinical Evidence Systems Development, Dr Dru Norriss, joins the HealthPathways Community in a new role that will oversee several clinical evidence projects, which will initially include ways to bring evidence into practice and integrate an online referencing system with HealthPathways