Better Sooner More Convenient Primary Care - New Zealand Doctor
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determine ratio of nurses and GPs to patient population (see Workforce project)<br />
address recruitment and retention issues (see Workforce Project).<br />
B. Improving access and outcomes for Māori:<br />
implement a time-limited Greymouth based version of the kaiawhina project that was<br />
successful in engaging Māori in Buller with the medical centre there:<br />
- ascertain roles of various players (health centres, Māori health provider, PHO);<br />
- implement kaiawhina role to address Grey district enrolment of Māori;<br />
- provide appropriate training and support<br />
identify/recruit one Māori nurse in each practice. Develop part of her/his role to focus<br />
on improving access and health outcomes for meeting the needs of Māori patients,<br />
providing a whanau ora approach and improving Māori engagement in services and clinical<br />
programmes<br />
link health navigators in each health centre with Māori nurses so that they can provide<br />
community based support for hard to reach patients.<br />
C. Extended role for pharmacists<br />
Formalise arrangements between practices and pharmacies for pharmacists to provide<br />
interim prescriptions when GPs not available to sign prescriptions.<br />
Year one:<br />
A. IHI PDSA cycle to improve health centre delivery systems<br />
Task<br />
Four facilitated workshops in each health centre to review PDSA cycles<br />
and implement new ones<br />
Review progress on outcome measures and feed back into quarterly<br />
planning sessions<br />
Monthly meetings with health centre delivery systems redesign teams<br />
to provide support<br />
Three regional workshops to share ideas across health centres<br />
Health centre newsletters to explain new systems<br />
Develop community education programmes about care of common minor<br />
ailments<br />
By when<br />
Quarterly<br />
Quarterly<br />
Monthly<br />
August, Nov, Feb<br />
August<br />
April<br />
B. Māori access<br />
Task<br />
Roles of Māori nurses defined<br />
Kaiawhina commences<br />
Review level of Māori enrolment<br />
By when<br />
July<br />
July<br />
Quarterly<br />
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