NZ Ministry of Health Reports on Primary Health Care

29/09/2009 1:02:22 PM

The NZ Ministry of Health has published two papers on primary healthcare. "Critical analysis of the implementation of the Primary Health Care Strategy implementation and framing of issues for the next phase" and "Where Next for Primary Health Care in New Zealand?"

Critical analysis of the implementation of the Primary Health Care Strategy implementation and framing of issues for the next phase

This paper represents the first part of a two-stage project ‘Where Next for Primary Health Care Development in New Zealand?’ that was undertaken by Judith Smith, Visiting Academic Fellow in the Sector Capability and Innovation Directorate of the Ministry of Health during 2008-2009. The project’s two elements were as follows:

- an initial phase entailing critical synthesis and analysis of PHCS implementation to date and a framing of the key issues that faced this sector in 2008 and beyond; and

- a second phase that sought to identify options for how primary health care provider development might go forward in New Zealand.

This paper is available at http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/indexmh/implementation-strategy-phc

Where Next for Primary Health Care in New Zealand?

This paper sets out a synthesis of five reports commissioned by District Health Boards New Zealand and the Ministry of Health as part of their ‘change in primary health care’ project within the Joint Work Programme on Primary Health Care Strategy (PHCS) Implementation. The synthesis focuses on the next stage of development for primary health organisations (PHOs) in New Zealand, what needs to change, and how the effectiveness of PHOs might be assessed.

This report is available at http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/indexmh/where-next-primary-health-care-nz