Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora: HbA1c Diagnostic Changes and Diabetes Roadmap

More than 340,000 people in Aotearoa New Zealand are estimated to be living with diabetes.

From 1 July 2026, national haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) diagnostic criteria are changing, with important implications for how diabetes and pre-diabetes are diagnosed, and managed. For general practice teams, these changes are not just a laboratory update. They will shape patient conversations, follow-up, long-term management and how practices support earlier intervention for people at risk of diabetes-related complications. General practice teams are invited to join a webinar from Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora on the upcoming HbA1c diagnostic changes and diabetes roadmap, presented by Dr Ryan Paul (Ngāti Maru). The session will outline what is changing, why the criteria are being updated, and what it means for day-to-day clinical practice, patients and whānau.

Dr Ryan Paul (Ngāti Maru) is an endocrinologist at Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Waikato and an associate professor at the…