Primary Health Care

Publications

• Background Documents
• Key Documents for PHOs
• Implementing the Primary Health Care Strategy
• Evaluations
• General Practice Fees
• Newsletters
• Nursing
• Performance Management and Referred Services
• PHO Management Services
• Primary Mental Health
• Rural Health
• Capitation Based Funding (CBF) Systems Support Information
• Youth Health
• Other Information

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Background Documents

• He Korowai Oranga - Maori Health Strategy
• New Zealand Health Strategy
• New Zealand Disability Strategy
• Primary Health Care Strategy

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Key Documents for PHOs

• A Guide for Establishing PHOs
• Commerce Act Advice (PDF, 329 KB)
• Complying with the Commerce Act - A Guide for PHOs
• Establishing Service Specifications for Essential Primary Health Care Services provided by PHOs
• Establishment Enrolment Requirements for PHOs
• Improving Maori Health: A Guide for PHOs
• Minimum Requirements for PHOs
• PHO Governance Guide - July 2007
  

Health Promotion Planning

• A Bird's Eye View of Public Health (PDF, 30 KB)
• A Guide to Developing Health Promotion Programmes in Primary Health Care Settings (PDF, 82 KB)
• Public Health in a Primary Health Care Setting (PDF, 80 KB)
  

Services to Improve Access

Improving Access to Primary Care for Maori and Pacific Peoples

Implementing the Primary Health Care Strategy

• A Difference in Communities: What's Happening in Primary Health
• Cabinet Paper 2004: Primary Health Care Strategy - Achieving Low Cost Access (PDF, 63 KB)
• Cabinet Paper March 2002: Implementing the Primary Health Care Strategy and Improving Access to Primary Health Care Services
• PHO Yearbook 2004
• Primary Health Care Strategy Implementation Work Programme 2006 to 2010 - The Next Steps

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After Hours Services

• Towards Accessible, Effective and Resilient After Hours Primary Health Care Services
  
  

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Evaluations

The Ministry of Health is managing a portfolio of evaluations as an integral part of the implementation of the Primary Health Care Strategy.

To read the evaluations go to the Research & Evaluation page

General Practice Fees

• General Practitioner Fees Information - A summary of key findings from five reports
• National GP Fee Survey - February 2004
  
  

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Newsletters

• Primary Workings Issues 1 & 2
• Primary Mental Health care in New Zealand
  
  

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Nursing

• An Approach to Risk Reduction and Risk Management for Cardiovascular Disease and Type 2 Diabetes with Nurse Leadership in Primary Health Care - view in Nursing section
• Evaluation of the Eleven Primary Health Care Nursing Innovation Projects
• Evolving Models of Primary Health Care Nursing
• Investing in Health: Whakatohutia te Oranga Tangata - A framework for activating primary health care nursing in New Zealand
• Primary Health Care and Community Nursing Workforce Survey - 2001

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Performance Management and Referred Services

• Clinical Performance Indicators for PHOs (PDF, 305 KB)
• Draft PHO Performance Management Operational Framework
• LEGC Referred Services Management Report
• Referred services management: Building towards equity, quality and better health outcomes
  

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PHO Management Services

Review of PHO Management Services

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Primary Mental Health

• Newsletter - Primary Mental Health care in New Zealand
• PHOs: Service development toolkit for mental health services in primary health care
• Primary Mental Health A review of the opportunities
  

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Rural Health

Implementing the Primary Health Care Strategy in Rural New Zealand

Capitation Based Funding (CBF) Systems Support Information

Ministry of Health Business Support Information Pack

The purpose of this document is to:

• present a ‘contacts by topic’ list that is generic so that the list is not affected by staff turnover
• provide an alternative to the existing temporary communications networks that develop over time between Ministry of Health staff and PHO payments stakeholders
• create a single or core "authoritative source" for complex problem solving e.g. tracing quarterly data processing errors
• identify the correct Ministry of Health staff to answer enquiries to ensure information provided is accurate
• provide a contacts list that can link to a number of relevant Ministry of Health staff rather than individual contacts.

The information pack is provided in Word and PDF format below:

• Ministry of Health Business Support Information Pack (Word, 328 KB)
• Ministry of Health Business Support Information Pack (PDF, 183 KB)

Capitation Enrolment and Register Handling Guidelines Frequently Asked Questions

The paper is now going through a formal review and is currently being updated by stakeholders to ensure its accuracy. The Ministry has received additional information from recipients, and the appropriate changes are being incorporated into the final document. This process will be completed, and the document published on this website by the end of June 2008.

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Youth Health

Improving the Health of Young People - Guidelines for school-based health care

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Other Information

• Intersectoral Community Action for Health (ICAH) Evaluation: An Overview - Mar 2008
• Community Services Card Review: Analysis of Alternative Targeting Mechanisms (PDF, 323 KB)
• Developing a PHO for Greater Wellington: A View from the Greater Wellington Health Trust - WIPA, May 2002 (PDF 514 kB)
• Discussion Papers on Primary Health Care - National Health Committee, December 1999
• Improving Health for New Zealanders by Investing in Primary Health Care - National Health Committee, December 2000
• National Primary Medical Care Survey (NatMedCa) 2001/02 Reports
• Primary Care and Health System Performance: Adults Experiences in Five Countries - the Commonwealth Fund report, October 2004
• Report on the National Health Committee's 'Grand Round' Presentation and Discussion - May 2001

Page last updated: 15 April 2008