Planning & Funding Private Bag 12024 Tauranga 3143 Tel: 07 579 8550 Fax: 07 578 0941 14 August 2018
Dear Doctors and Practice Nurses, Re: My Advance Care Plan This letter is to advise you that My Advance Care Plan (My ACP) will be promoted in the Bay of Plenty as the preferred template for recording advance care planning conversations and then its use will be reviewed after six months. The Future Care Planning Advisory Group made the difficult decision after much debate due to the following: - The growing shift to online templates which are universally based on My ACP. - The cost and potential waste, of providing two versions of the same document. - The availability of supporting information and context for My ACP. - The use of the ACP nationally so its content and layout has become more familiar to clinicians. Although the My Future Care Plan template is no longer available on Bay Navigator, if any of your patients have a Future Care Plan published on the patient information system, it will continue to be available to clinical staff at BOPDHB. Please discard any copies of the My Future Care Plan template held at your practice. For your reference, two copies of the MY ACP are included with this letter, as well as the My ACP Summary. This form is designed to be completed by you with your patient as a summary of pages 10 and 11 of My ACP and then submitted to BOPDHB by e-referral. For more detailed information, see the pathway on Bay Navigator for advance care planning (http://baynav.bopdhb.govt.nz/future-care-planning/future-careplanning-fcp/). If you require more hard copies of My ACP please contact Kym Richards at kym.richards@bopdhb.govt.nz Please also note that there will be a series of one-day Level 1A ACP workshops available in October and November. More information will follow. Yours sincerely Ellen Fisher Future Care Planning Implementation Manager Planning & Funding BOPDHB