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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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