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5.4.3 Future well child service model
Currently well child service provision is fragmented between Plunket, primary care, Māori health
NGO providers, LMCs and Community nursing services. The advent of IFHCS creates the
opportunity to bring these carers together, so that care is streamlined, information is shared
and families get the right level of follow up.
Initial discussions with NGO service providers indicate a willingness to collaborate in order to
achieve better health outcomes and better use of resources. More detailed discussions and
project planning will occur in year one of the implementation phase.
5.4.4 Future mental health service model
[NB. The Mental Health component of this plan was written on the basis of funding being
available to employ Mental Health Co-ordinators in each IFHC. It became apparent on 23 rd
February that this funding was not going to be available. While aspects of this plan may still be
able to be implemented within existing resources and funding, this will require discussion with,
and support from, clinicians from community mental health services, primary mental health
services and primary care. Given the time now available a revision to this plan was therefore not
attempted; this review will done by June 30, 2010.]
Significant changes are proposed for mental health services. Most secondary mental health
services provided by the West Coast DHB are, in fact, community based. Over time it is
proposed that these will increasingly be based in IFHCs to enhance the connection with core
primary care. This process will commence in 1 July 2010 with the devolution of funds for three
primary care based primary mental health co-ordinators who, over time, will conduct almost all
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