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Keeping up to date



Independent reporting of Health Information in Australia

The Australian Bureau of Health Information was established in September 2009 as a major initiative of the Australian government's 'Caring Together: The Health Action Plan for NSW' (http://healthactionplan.nsw.gov.au) to provide an independent and transparent system of reporting the quality, performance and effectiveness of NSW health services.

Independent reports will be available to the community and government, and the bureau will also provide doctors and nurses with information to enable them to compare the performance of their services in providing quality care to their patients.


Push to merge PHOs

Health Minister Tony Ryall has given five District Health Boards notice to merge some of their Primary Health Organisations (PHOs) as he looks for savings in the health service with this year's budget predicted to have smaller than usual increases for health. Read the full article on Stuff.


Second quarter results of DHB targets published

The second quarter DHB target reports are now available as downloads on the Ministry of Health website.

In November 2009 Health Minister Tony Ryall announced the first quarterly results of the Government's health targets.

The targets focus on hospital performance: Shorter stays in Emergency Departments, Improved access to Elective Surgery, Shorter waits for Cancer Treatment Radiotherapy, Increased Immunisation, Better help for Smokers to Quit, and Better Diabetes and Cardiovascular Services.


December 2009 MOH Mental Health Newsletter

The latest Ministry of Health Mental Health Newsletter - December 2009 -[PDF - 545 KB] can be downloaded here.


NGO User Group for PRIMHD

The PRIMHD User Group has been established to support the implementation of PRIMHD across those NGOs contracted to provide mental health and addiction services.

This provider reference group (made up of representatives from the Ministry of Health, Platform Trust, NGO providers from each of the four PRIMHD regional governance groups, and the four PRIMHD Regional Co-ordinators)also forms part of an ‘accountability loop’ back to the main PRIMHD project.


Platform & PRIMHD

The Platform Trust is working with the Ministry of Health to promote the use and benefits of PRIMHD reporting for NGO providers. Platform is also working with the Regional Coordinators to implement PRIMHD.


PRIMHD Roll-out Status

An update on the current roll-out status for PRIMHD is available here.


Evaluation of the Primary Mental Health Initiatives

The evaluation of the first 26 of the Ministry of Health's funded Primary Mental Health initiatives is available here [PDF, 3 MB]

New funding allocated through the Primary Health Care Strategy funding recognised the need for development of primary mental health services in New Zealand. The Evaluation has reported that the initiatives have been very successful, facilitating effective interdisciplinary team work, creating new roles and at least 80 percent of patients receiving the funded services showed positive improvement.


Reports on Primary Health Care

HSRAANZ (The Health Services Research Association) news highlights the NZ Ministry of Health's publication of two papers on primary healthcare:

"Critical analysis of the implementation of the Primary Health Care Strategy implementation and framing of issues for the next phase" and "Where Next for Primary Health Care in New Zealand?".


Challenges for enhancing Primary Health Care in NZ

Another HSRAANZ article highlights work done by Victoria University's Health Services Research Centre.

"Four reports, released on 1 September, by Victoria University's Health Services Research Centre, show good progress is being made with recent primary health care reforms in New Zealand, but there are still challenges ahead.


News Archive

More recent news stories of interest to the Mental Health sector are available in the News Archive...


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