HFA - Procedure for Prioritising New Service Initiatives

HFA - Procedure for Prioritising New Service Initiatives
Date of publication: March 2001

This paper outlines a procedure for maintaining a pool of priority service initiatives within the Operating Groups. Implementing the process will:

embed the prioritisation decision making process, that has been developed by the HFA (and that is consistent with the principles underpinning the New Zealand Health Strategy);

ensure that service priority decisions are based on proposals that meet minimum information requirements and standards, and which in turn focus decision makers on the five prioritisation principles;

reduce the reactive nature of the current budget process in the HFA, by ensuring that the priority pools are maintained throughout the year, and not developed purely because the budget round has started;

free up analytical effort to focus on marginal baseline expenditure;

provide the Executive Management Team with a set of priorities that can be used in discussions with the Minister of Health, the Minister of Disability Issues, and the health and disability sector as a whole; and

ensure that Maori are represented as Treaty Partners throughout the process.

The process was designed following the review of the Sustainable Funding Path Allocation process in February 2000, and was developed by the Prioritisation Group, with the support of Finance and Performance Monitoring staff from the Ministry of Health.

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