Primary Health Care

'Better, Sooner, More Convenient' Primary Health Care

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What is 'Better, Sooner, More Convenient' Primary Health Care?

Better, Sooner, More Convenient Primary Health Care is the Government's initiative to deliver a more personalised primary health care system that provides services closer to home and makes Kiwis healthier.

Primary health care has a part to play in helping reduce acute demand pressure on hospitals by better managing chronic conditions and proactively supporting high need populations.

A package of services is proposed to make significant improvements. This includes multiple Integrated Family Health Centres, nurses acting as case managers for patients with chronic conditions, providing a wider range of care and support for patients and shifting some secondary care services to primary care.

The EOI process
The Ministry of Health issued an Expression of Interest (EOI) in September 2009 to get proposals from eligible primary health care providers, to implement Better, Sooner, More Convenient.

More than 70 EOIs were received and nine have been selected to move through to the next stage of development, working on business cases which will be submitted to the Ministry in mid February 2010.

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Page last updated: 6 January 2010