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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 />

Business case appendices V12 AC 25Feb2010 Page 11

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