Towards Accessible, Effective and Resilient After Hours Primary Health Care Services
Report of the After Hours Primary Health Care Working Party

Date of publication: July 2005
Published on the web: October 2005

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The After Hours Primary Health Care Working Party (the Working Party) made fifteen recommendations aimed at ensuring accessible and effective after hours primary health care services and strengthening their resilience. 

As required by their Terms of Reference, the members of the Working Party developed these recommendations “with the assumption that no further primary health care strategy funding will be available to support after hours services, but there may be opportunities to better utilise available primary health care and District Health Board (DHB) baseline funding to support after hours primary health care”. 

Their key recommendations are that:

• DHBs in collaboration with PHOs and After Hours service providers develop and implement a planning and funding strategy for after hours primary health care for their district for all service users;
• DHBs are urged to commence work on their District After Hours Services Plans immediately without waiting for the planning requirement to be incorporated into the District Annual Planning process for the 2006/07 year; and
• accountability for 24/7 primary health care service delivery should remain with PHOs.  PHOs must demonstrate to the DHB that they have 24/7 arrangements in place for all service users.

Read the response to these recommendations
Response to Recommendations of After Hours Primary Health Care Working Party

Read a summary of submissions
Summary of submissions on the Report of the After Hours Primary Health Care Working Party: Towards Accessible, Effective and Resilient After Hours Primary Health Care

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