Service Planning and New Health Intervention Assessment (SPNIA)

NSTR Terms of Reference

NSTR is governed by the Deputy Director General-Chief Executive Officer Group (DDG-CEO Group). It is responsible for horizon scanning, coordinating business cases development and analysing and evaluating proposals for change and business cases. It makes recommendations to the DDG-CEO Group on national service matters and new health interventions that have a national impact.

NSTR may propose to critically review the national impacts of an existing policy, service or technology. Its members act in their individual capacity as experts – not as representatives of the regions, organisations or professions from which they are drawn.

NSTR’s role is to:

• provide technical and strategic policy advice to the DDG-CEO Group on health service configuration and health interventions that have a national impact
• co-ordinate the development of business cases
• analyse and evaluate proposals for change and business cases and recommend their adoption or rejection to the DDG-CEO Group
• scan for new health interventions that could be considered for formal assessment because of their potential value
• scan for services and health interventions that are obsolete, ineffective or inadequate, and therefore exit or cessation is likely to be appropriate
• maintain a register of health interventions and potential disinvestments that have been recommended for assessment, and their status
• develop, over time, a precedent-based threshold against which health interventions can be ranked on their appropriateness for introduction to the New Zealand public health system, or for their provision to cease
• provide timely recommendations to the National Capital Committee on the service aspects of capital projects that require National Capital Committee approval.

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