The Ministry of Health Output Plan for 2004/05

Date of publication: September 2004

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This Output Plan is between the Minister of Health and the Director-General of Health (Chief Executive of the Ministry of Health).

The objective of the Output Plan is to provide the Minister of Health with information to assess the strategic importance and value of departmental outputs and to make comparisons with similar outputs across both the public and private sectors.

This Output Plan sets out the outputs the Minister of Health has agreed to purchase, their performance attributes and costs, and the terms and conditions surrounding the agreement.

The Output Plan allows the Minister of Health to:

• record agreed cost, quantity and quality standards for desired outputs

• assess the risks and obligations associated with delivery

• record and change decisions

• subsequently verify that the output has been delivered

• hold the provider accountable for delivery of the specified output.

Schedule 1 of this plan provides information on the Ministry of Health’s outcome framework and linkages between societal, intermediate and Ministry outcomes, the Minister of Health’s key priorities, and the key Government goals.

The output mix within an output class can be changed at the discretion of the Minister of Health.

The Output Plan is for the 12 months commencing on 1 July 2004 and ending on 30 June 2005.

The responsible Output Manager (detailed in the table below) will monitor and report to the Director-General on delivery of the outputs specified in this Output Agreement and in the Statement of Objectives contained in the 2004/2005 Statement of Intent.

Output class	Name of output class	Responsible Deputy Director-General (Output Manager)
Output Class D1	Sector Policy	Deputy Director-General, Sector Policy Directorate
Output Class D2	DHB Funding and Performance	Deputy Director-General, DHB Funding and Performance
Output Class D3	Ministerial Support Services	Deputy Director-General, Corporate and Information Directorate
Output Class D4	Mäori Health	Deputy Director-General, Mäori Health Directorate
Output Class D5	Public Health	Deputy Director-General, Public Health Directorate
Output Class D6	Disability Issues	Deputy Director-General, Disability Services Directorate
Output Class D7	Mental Health	Deputy Director-General, Mental Health Directorate
Output Class D8	Health Sector Development	Deputy Director-General, DHB Funding and Performance
Output Class D9	Clinical Services	Deputy Director-General, Clinical Services Directorate
Output Class D10	Management of National Screening Programmes	Deputy Director-General, Public Health Directorate
Output Class D11	Information Services	Deputy Director-General, Corporate and Information Directorate

The Director-General of Health will provide the Minister of Health with three quarterly reports on progress for each output class compared to the quantity, quality and timeliness performance measures in the schedules to the Output Plan, and an annual report to Parliament.

The quarterly report to the Minister of Health will be exception based and will include:

• Director-General’s overview

• highlights of activities and events over the quarter for each Departmental Output Class and for Non-Departmental Output Classes in relation to services funded directly by the Ministry of Health

• a report against the key outcomes identified by the Minister of Health

• any expected future changes in agreed performance and the proposed course of action

• performance not achieved against the relevant measures for the quarter

• all amendments to the schedules agreed during the period

• an explanation of any failure to reach any agreed performance specifications for the quarter and proposed corrective action.

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