Care plans & action plans
A care plan is useful when you have several people involved in your care or you have ongoing health issues so everyone is on the 'same page' as to what matters to you (your goals, values and preferences) and what's planned together with your healthcare team for the next 12 months to improve your health or wellbeing.
Care plans
Take Charge My Toolkit
This booklet is for patients and ideal for anyone wanting to get back in the 'driver's seat' of their health and improve the areas they can influence. Nearly everyone can improve some aspects of their health and wellbeing with the right knowledge, support and skills which this booklet will help you learn.
Health Navigator, NZ
Take Charge My Health Plan
This is a shorter version of the Take Charge Workbook. Ideal for those who want a short version focused just on the care plan sections. Ideal assessment and care planning resource for use by health providers as above.
Health Navigator, NZ
Action plans and acute plans
This section includes a range of resources which are sometimes called action plans, acute plans or self-management plans which focus on early warning signs and what actions a person should take.
Early warning signs plan
Early warning signs plan also known as acute plan or emergency plan.
Health Navigator, NZ
Pictorial asthma medication plan
A web-based tool that health professionals can use to produce personalised pictorial asthma resources in English and three Pacific languages.
Waitemata DHB, NZ
Anaphylaxis
Range of action plans for anipen or epipen.
Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology & Allergy
AIR: Adults asthma action plan
This asthma action plan is completed with your
healthcare practitioner or nurse to help control your
asthma. Your plan explains how to control your asthma
long term, it helps to identify what to do when you are
well, unwell or need help in an emergency.
Asthma Foundation, NZ
Eczema action plan
Eczema action plan (interactive - can write name, meds etc).
Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology & Allergy
Additional tools and resources
This section includes examples of some of the tools and resources you may find useful as patient tasks when creating care plans with patients and clients.
Headache diary
Monitor your headaches for a week or two then show to your doctor. Helps see any patterns or triggers.
Health Navigator, NZ
Advance care planning
Range of resources about advance care planning.
Health Quality & Safety Commission, NZ
Take Charge sleep tips tracker
Write down what your sleep is like. Look for patterns, what helps, what makes any sleep problems worse. Show to your doctor.
Health Navigator, NZ
