NZ health professionals network

NZFBOC Special Interest Group is a collaborative group of professionals and consumer representatives working in the field of Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer in New Zealand.

NZFBOC Special Interest Group sets out to:

• Meet Te Tiriti o Waitangi legislative obligations to protect the interests of Māori to receive effective, responsive, patient-centred services in an effort to achieve health equity.
• Achieve equitable health outcomes by reducing the rate of preventable familial breast and ovarian cancers and improving care in the fields of risk assessment, detection, diagnosis, prevention, surveillance, treatment and psychological support
• Support research
• Enable networking
• Inform, establish and support implementation of regional and national Guidelines, Standards and Recommendations.
• Establish and support Regional and National Recommendations
• Provide expertise, information and education
• Work towards a nationwide coordinated service provision and establishment of a registry / systematic data collection including ethnicity data.
• Collaborate with Ministry of Health, District Health Boards and Cancer Control Agency
• Collaborate with other Groups directly involved in care provision involved e.g. Genetic Health Service NZ, Breast Special Interest Group, New Zealand Gynae Cancer Group, Psychosocial Oncology New Zealand, Consumer Groups.