Keith Reid
Keith spurned an offer to read aeronautical engineering and instead enrolled in medical school. After obtaining a Medical Sciences degree from St Andrews University and M.B.Ch.B from the University of Manchester he undertook a doctorate at the Institute of Space Biomedicine in Sheffield, England where he held a Wellcome Trust Medical Graduate Research Training Fellowship. He went on to work at Farnborough, Hampshire as a research medical officer for the UK Ministry of Defence before returning to full-time clinical practice in the NHS. Initially training in internal medicine he was soon re-directed to public health practice where he has operated ever since. He has an interest in health systems and is driven by a keen sense of social (in)justice.

Keith was active for many years at a national level in the British Medical Association where he advocated strongly against the recent changes in the NHS in England.

In 2011 Keith applied for and accepted a job in Dunedin, a city he had never visited, 18,000km from where he then resided. It took him 6 months to persuade his family to move and 3 months to persuade the NZ Medical Council to issue him with registration. He has been in Dunedin since October 2012 working in public health medicine and marvelling at many aspects of NZ, including the state of the health system.

 

 

The Evidence for Preventative Approaches in Primary Care
Concurrent Workshop Repeated
Saturday, 16 August 2014 Start 2:00pm Duration: 55mins Room 2
Start 3:05pm Duration: 55mins Room 2
The aim of the session is to provide a framework to consider how you might go about using routine contacts to promote health in general practice and what these interventions might usefully be targeted at.

By attending this session participants will be able to: Identify different types of preventative interventions suitable for delivery in primary care;
Understand the evidence of effectiveness of these approaches;
Be in a position to consider how to alter their practice to incorporate preventative approaches and realise some of the benefits of doing so.

Healthcare systems face increasing demands that have led to calls for more work on addressing ‘upstream’ factors to prevent or delay the onset of ill-health. General Practice is uniquely placed within the healthcare system to deliver such ‘public health’ approaches given the enduring relationship between General Practice teams and a defined (registered) population. GPs also face a challenge from being asked to undertake an increasing workload in managing chronic conditions which involves secondary prevention approaches.

A number of health systems internationally support or encourage the use of preventative approaches as a part of routine general practice. The workshop will look at what the evidence tells us about the effectiveness of some basic approaches to preventative interventions and then try so scope out some approaches which might be used to address conditions which are important in the South Island of New Zealand.

Improving Public Health through Primary Healthcare – Altogether Better?
Main Session
Sunday, 17 August 2014 Start 11:00am Duration: 25mins Plenary