Health Targets
Health Targets are a set of national performance measures specifically designed to improve the performance of health services. They provide a focus for action.
Shorter stays in Emergency Departments
95 percent of patients will be admitted, discharged, or transferred from an Emergency Department (ED) within six hours.
Targeting Emergencies: Shorter Stays in Emergency Departments (PDF, 558 KB)
Improved access to elective surgery
The volume of elective surgery will be increased by an average 4,000 discharges per year (compared with the previous average increase of 1400 per year).
Targeting More Elective Operations: Improved Access to Elective Surgery (PDF, 594 KB)
Shorter waits for cancer treatment
Everyone needing radiation treatment will have this within six weeks by the end of July 2010 and within four weeks by December 2010.
Targeting Shorter Waits For Cancer Treatment (PDF, 580 KB)
Increased immunisation
90 percent of two year olds will be fully immunised by July 2011; and 95 percent by July 2012.
Targeting Immunisation: Increased Immunisation (PDF, 665 KB)
Better help for smokers to quit
90 percent of hospitalised smokers will be provided with advice and help to quit by July 2011; and 95 percent by July 2012. Primary care performance on helping smokers to quit will be measured and reported through the PHO Performance Programme.
Targeting Smokers: Better Help for Smokers to Quit (PDF, 892 KB)
Better diabetes and cardiovascular services
This publication looks at how DHBs are working to achieve the Better diabetes and cardiovascular services health target, and discusses the real gains which are being made thanks to the creativity, teamwork and dedication of hospital staff, and the people who provide health services and support in the community.
Targeting Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease (PDF, 811 KB)
We Are Targeting Better Health Services
Find out about Health Targets and progress towards achieving them in the new on-line booklet We Are Targeting Better Health Services
We Are Targeting Better Health Services (PDF, 3.63 MB)
Better, Sooner, More Convenient Health Care in the Community
Better, Sooner, More Convenient Health Care in the Community' is dedicated to our primary health care workforce and other health professionals who are making a difference in creating better health services.
Better, Sooner, More Convenient Health Care in the Community (PDF, 912KB)
National Cardiac Surgery Update: And the Formation of the New Zealand Cardiac Network
Improved access to cardiac surgery has reduced patient waiting times to levels never achieved before. The National Cardiac Surgery Clinical Network has worked with the National Health Board (NHB) and District Health Boards ( DHBs) throughout New Zealand to help achieve this unprecedented outcome.
National Cardiac Surgery Update: And the Formation of the New Zealand Cardiac NetworK (PDF, 640KB)
Regional Services Planning: How district health boards are working together to deliver better health services
This booklet contains examples of how the new regional approach is already giving New Zealanders better health services. Experience gained in a region's response to pressures on its health system will be shared and, in time, applied across other regions and nationally, where appropriate.
