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Primary Health Care
Services to Improve Access
Services to Improve Access (SIA) funding is available for all PHOs to reduce inequalities among those populations that are known to have the worst health status: Maori, Pacific people and those living in NZDep index 9-10 decile areas. The funding is for new services or improved access and is additional to the main PHO capitation funding for first contact general practice-type services. Funds are allocated according to the number of people from these population groups enrolled in the PHO.
These rates were calculated based on the First Contact rates for Access practices for non High User Health Cardholders with different multipliers for differing groups of need. The multipliers applied are:
Ethnicity
Deprivation
Multiplier
Non Maori or Pacific People
Deciles 1-8
0.0
Non Maori or Pacific People
Deciles 9-10
0.2
Maori or Pacific People
Deciles 1-8
0.2
Maori or Pacific People
Deciles 9-10
0.4
View the current PHO Capitation Rates for Services to Improve Access
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Services to Improve Access
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Page last updated: 5 October 2007