Our priorities for 2011/12 Towards a Unified Health System

Our ten priorities for 2011-12 are designed to create a more unified health system for New Zealand. These priority areas, outlined blow, will direct our work over the next 12 months:

Priority 1: A unified system for long-term service planning, funding and provision that is clinically and financially sustainable and that can inform capacity investment decisions.

Priority 2: Identify, plan, fund and monitor the delivery of health services deemed by the Minister of Health to be National Services.

Priority 3: Support the ongoing development and implementation of Regional Service Plans(RSPs) by DHBs.

Priority 4: District Health Board (DHB) Planning, Funding and Monitoring.

Priority 5: Capital, IT and Workforce capacity planning and investment supports service plans that are clinically and financially sustainable. 

Priority 6: Allocate existing Ministry funded non-departmental expenditure (NDE) to be managed at either the national, regional or local level based on a well developed framework (as per Priority 1 above).

Priority 7: Reducing waste and bureaucracy and improving the productivity of the health and disability system.

Priority 8: Encouraging clinical leadership and engagement.

Priority 9: Christchurch Earthquake Recovery

Priority 10: Aged Care (will be evolving during the year)