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4.6 Changes underway<br />

A number of initiatives have been implemented over the last three years to address some of the<br />

health needs and service delivery concerns on the West Coast.<br />

PHO based initiatives:<br />

development of health promoting practices and a wide number of high profile health<br />

promotion activities, including Smokefree, Heart Week, men‟s health days, Green<br />

prescription, Tai Chi classes, community activity programmes<br />

breastfeeding co-ordinators and peer support programme<br />

kaiawhina role to improve access for Māori in the Buller district<br />

long term condition management programme incorporating targeted care, self<br />

management support, delivery system redesign and clinical information systems<br />

primary mental health assessments and brief intervention counselling<br />

navigation support for those with cancer<br />

Māori health plan<br />

PHO Performance Programme with GP facilitator<br />

immunisation enhancement.<br />

DHB based initiatives in primary and community care:<br />

Māori health needs analysis<br />

investment in nursing competency and role extension<br />

movement to models of care in which nurses provide front line services where<br />

appropriate<br />

greater use of nurses – with nurse to GP consult ratios being the highest for any DHB in<br />

NZ<br />

closer working relationships with Canterbury in many services<br />

movement to more community based mental health service delivery – with reduction to<br />

five acute inpatient beds on the Coast<br />

delivering a predominately community based mental health service delivery model,<br />

enhancing community based support services delivered by NGOs and reducing acute<br />

inpatient beds to five<br />

establishment of an academic practice to co-train rural GPs and rural nurses and<br />

sourcing CTA support for pilot training programmes<br />

development of an IT platform which provides for a single shared patient record across<br />

DHB practices with access through Healthviews to hospital sourced health information<br />

such as discharge summaries, PACS radiology, lab results<br />

through After Hours funding providing West Coast-wide after hours triage phone<br />

support.<br />

Business case EoI V38 AC 25Feb10 Page 20

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