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• [RESEARCH PAPER] Facilitating equitable prevention and management of gout for Māori in Northland, New Zealand, through a collaborative primary care approach
• [WEBINAR] Webinar: Equitable approaches to gout management — Latest research and evidence
• [REPORT] Whanganui Gout Stop Programme Evaluation - Final Evaluation Report
• Mate Taihā – Gout Support
• Design and implementation of a Pacific intervention to increase uptake of urate-lowering therapy for gout: a study protocol
• Interventions designed to improve uptake of allopurinol for gout treatment in Aotearoa New Zealand: a scoping review (2021)

Gout initiatives in Aotearoa New Zealand

This guide is informed by previous gout improvement and research projects which have taken place over the last 20 years.

These projects include:

• Men’s Gout Pit Stop project at Bader Drive (Dr Gary Sinclair and Donna Snell)

• Multiple community clinics in Counties Manukau region (Dr Peter Gow and rheumatology staff)

• Multiple community and workplace clinics in different regions (Arthritis New Zealand)

• Ta Pasifika project (Nick Gow, Dr Peter Gow)

• Gout Happy Feet at Greenstone Clinic (Dr Bruce Arroll)

• 20000 Days project in 2013 surveying 200 patients in 2 different practices in Otara (Jack He and Peter Gow)

• Gout Stop programme in Northland (Dr Aniva Lawrence)
  • Facilitating equitable prevention and management of gout for Māori in Northland, New Zealand, through a collaborative primary care approach

• Owning My Gout (OMG) programme in Counties Manukau (Diana Phone)
  • Evaluation report by Synergia of Northland Gout Stop programme and Owning My Gout management programmes
  • Webinar discussing evaluation report

• Whānau Ora clinics Gout project (Dr Peter Gow, George Ngatai and Raewyn Bhana)

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• Programme at Kaikoura Healthcare (Professor Lisa Stamp)

• Goutbusters programme with pharmacies in Counties Manukau (Dr Natalie Gauld)

• Gout programme at Papakura Marae (Dr Leanne Te Karu)

• Pharmacy project in Porirua (Russell Cook and Arthritis NZ)

• Pharmacy project in Horowhenua (Gavin Hamblyn)

• Whanganui Regional Health Network GOUT STOP programme (Anne Kauika)
  • Evaluation report for the Whanganui programme

• Study of Experiences and Perceptions of Tongan people diagnosed with gout living in South Auckland (Thelma Fatafehi-Finau) 2019 unpublished Master’s thesis

• Te Whatu Ora Te Matau a Māui Hawke’s Bay gout project (Melanie Te Whaiti)
  • Mate Taihā – Gout Support

NIU (Nesians Improving Urate-lowering therapy) – an intervention to increase uptake of urate-lowering therapy for gout in Pasifika (Pacific Research Collective, University of Auckland (Samuela Ofanao)

• Design and implementation of a Pacific intervention to increase uptake of urate-lowering therapy for gout: a study protocol.

Ofanoa S, Ofanoa M, Tu’akoi S, Lutui H, Heather, M, McKree Jansen R, Dalbeth N, Grey C, Goodyear-Smith F. **Interventions designed to improve uptake of allopurinol for gout treatment in Aotearoa New Zealand – a scoping review** JPHC 2023;15(1):48-58.

• Journal of Primary Health Care [Full article]

Gout Action Aotearoa

This is a national group of researchers, health professionals and anyone interested in promoting better treatment for gout particularly for whānau Māori and Pacific peoples. The group meets irregularly on Zoom, usually once a quarter to catch up on various initiatives and strategies about how to change community awareness about the causes of gout and support different gout initiatives.

<aside> 📨 Contact the co-ordinator Susan Reid: [email protected]

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