Gout for healthcare providers
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Video: Achieving equity in gout management
(He Ako Hiringa, NZ, 2022)
Video: Addressing inequity in primary care
(Healthify & Health Literacy, NZ, 2020)
Video: Let's talk gout
(He Ako Hiringa, NZ, 2021)
Pharmac seminar series
Video: Gout – Dr Guy Taylor (parts 1, 2) (30 minutes + 28 minutes = 58 minutes)
(PHARMAC, NZ, 2019)
Video: PHARMAC seminar; Rheumatology update, 3b of 5, Gout
(Pharmac, NZ, 2019)
Video: Goodfellow Unit Webinar: Managing acute gout and prevention of gout
(Goodfellow Unit, NZ, 2017)
Video: Goodfellow Unit Medtalk: Management of gout in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Goodfellow Unit, NZ, 2018)
For more details, view Goodfellow Unit Medtalk.(external link)
Video: Health Nav Chat w/ Rebecca Grainger
Watch this video where Dr Janine Bycroft (GP and Healthify Clinical Director), chats to Dr Rebecca Grainger (rheumatologist), about living with gout, arthritis, fibromyalgia or chronic pain.
(Health Navigator Charitable Trust NZ, 2018)

Cartoon is copyright to Cartoons by Jim(external link) and reproduced with permission from HiNZ(external link).
- Gout Guide NZ(external link) Health Literacy NZ, Health Navigator Charitable Trust, 2023
The Gout Guide is a dynamic, must-have resource for GPs, nurses, pharmacists, health coaches and all healthcare teams in Aotearoa New Zealand! - Gout videos Healthify He Puna Waiora, 2023
- Gout: diagnosis and treatment(external link) NICE guideline, UK, 2022
- Gout in Aotearoa NZ – the equity crisis continues in plain sight(external link) The NZ Medical Journal, 2018
- Acute Gout Diagnosis Rule(external link) MDCalc
- Gout arthritis(external link) Arthritis IQ online professional development courses, Arthritis NZ
- EpIC Gout by He Ako Hiringa allows you to view your gout prescribing data, as well as your practice and national data. Click here to explore the EpIC Gout(external link)
- Atlas of Healthcare Variation - Gout (HQSC) This Atlas domain presents information on gout by district health board (DHB) including prevalence by ethnicity and treatment. Click here to view the full atlas.(external link)
- Jackson GI, Dalbeth N, Te Karu L, Winnard D, Gow P, Gerard C, Minko N. Variation in gout care in Aotearoa New Zealand – a national analysis of quality markers(external link) NZ Med J. 2014 Oct 17;127(1404):37-47.
- Health literacy and the prevention and early detection of gout(external link) Workbase Leading Health Literacy, NZ 2014
- Lindsay K, Gow P, Vanderpyl J, Dalbeth N. The experience and impact of living with gout: a study of men with chronic gout using a qualitative grounded theory approach.(external link) JCR: Journal of Clinical Rheumatology. 2011 Jan 1;17(1):1-6.
- Find other resources on the He Ako Hiringa website at Gout resource repository.(external link)
Gout(external link) Goodfellow Unit, NZ, 2017
Professor Nicola Dalbeth shares an update on the management of gout. Nicola is a rheumatologist at the University of Auckland and Auckland District Health Board. She is a founding member of the Māori Gout Action Group, chair of the Atlas of Health Care Variance Gout Expert Advisory Group and was clinical lead advisor for the gout clinical pathways and BPAC gout treatment guidelines.
Legendary conversations – let’s talk gout. Part 1(external link) He Ako Hiringa, 2021. This focuses on focuses on how to better communicate with people with gout, to improve health outcomes. We discuss attitudes towards gout, and learn about the Ask, Build, Check health literacy framework with three experts: Professor Nicola Dalbeth, Carla White and Meihana Douglas.
Legendary conversations – let's talk gout Part 2(external link) He Ako Hiringa, 2021. This demonstrates use of the three-step Ask, Build, Check health literacy model, through an acted discussion between a prescriber and a patient.
- Managing gout in primary care: Part 1 – talking about gout, time for a rethink(external link) BPAC, NZ, 2021
- Managing gout in primary care: Part 2 – controlling gout with long-term urate-lowering treatment(external link) BPAC, NZ, 2021
- Beyond unreasonable gout(external link) He Ako Hiringa, NZ, 2021
- Beyond medicines for gout(external link) He Ako Hiringa, NZ, 2021
- Making the right thing the easy thing to do – strategies to improve outcomes in gout(external link) The Lancet, UK, 2019
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