19.06.2015 Views

Better Sooner More Convenient Primary Care - New Zealand Doctor

Better Sooner More Convenient Primary Care - New Zealand Doctor

Better Sooner More Convenient Primary Care - New Zealand Doctor

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

Year three<br />

<br />

<br />

<br />

<br />

Continued joint planning by each organisation with one plan covering all health promotion<br />

services.<br />

Enhanced collaboration between the three organisations.<br />

Fully functional virtual single operating entity where each organisation WCPHO, WCDHB<br />

and CPH work together to create a “Healthy West Coast”.<br />

7 Capability and capacity<br />

Between the three organisations, the West Coast has a small but strong health promotion<br />

workforce. This workforce is strongly supported by a range of clinicians including general<br />

practice teams, pharmacies, rural nurse specialists, practice nurses and so on. General practices<br />

and pharmacies are actively engaged in health promotion campaigns and provision of health<br />

promotion resources.<br />

West Coast PHO<br />

The West Coast PHO has a small but strong health promotion workforce with 0.5 Full Time<br />

Equivalent (FTE) Health Promoter and 1 FTE Active Communities Co-ordinator that are<br />

supported by the Clinical Manager. The Coast Quit programme is implemented by GP‟s, practice<br />

nurses, rural nurse specialists and three pharmacies.<br />

West Coast DHB<br />

Tobacco Control/Smokefree - the 1 FTE Regional Smokefree Co-ordinator is based within the<br />

Planning & Funding team and smoking cessation services and clinical training a delivered within<br />

the hospital setting by the Smoking Cessation practitioners (1 FTE total).<br />

Physical Activity and Nutrition - the Healthy Eating Healthy Action (HEHA) team is based<br />

within Planning & Funding and consists of 2.5 FTE of HEHA co-ordinators that work across the<br />

nutrition and physical activity areas and 1 FTE HEHA manager that works across the West<br />

Coast and Canterbury DHBs.<br />

Immunuisation - Outreach Immunisation co-ordinators (1 FTE total – 0.4 clinical, 0.6 Māori coordination),<br />

HPV co-ordinator (0.4 FTE), Public Health Nurses, Immunisation co-ordinator (0.6<br />

FTE).<br />

Community & Public Health<br />

Tobacco Control/Smokefree - Aukati Kai Paipa 1.0 FTE, Māori Smoking Health Promoter 0.4<br />

FTE, Smokefree Health Promoter 0.5 FTE, Smokefree Environment Compliance 0.2 FTE.<br />

Immunuisation - Youth Health Promoter 0.2 FTE, Health Protection Officer 0.2 FTE, Public<br />

Health Specialist 0.1 FTE.<br />

Business case appendices V12 AC 25Feb2010 Page 33

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!