DAP 2009/10 Final 1 - Taranaki District Health Board

DAP 2009/10 FinalThe wider DHB is also involved in projects such as the Implementation of theInterRAI Assessment Tool; encouraging DHBs to involve ACC in primary care afterhours planning; joint funding of falls prevention programmes for elderly in thecommunity and establishment of the ACC, Ministry and Police joint venture forSexual Abuse Assessment and Treatment services.The National Ambulance Sector Office (NASO), a joint venture between the Ministryof Health and ACC is charged with managing all ambulance related work for the twoCrown agencies. There is ongoing work between NASO and the Taranaki DHBowned ambulance service towards determining linkages between the draft NewZealand Ambulance Strategy and other pieces of work such as the Inter HospitalTransfers project.The ongoing commitment is that ACC and Taranaki DHB will continue to engageopenly about opportunities that will benefit common clients and advance mutualoutcomes.Quality Improvement Committee (QIC) ProgrammeThere are five priority project areas in the QIC programme. Below is a description ofwhat is planned for 2009/10.This is Year two of a multi-year programme. The expected outputs are thereforefocused on progressing the projects at DHB level.1. DHB collective commitment to the National Quality ImprovementProgramme: Taranaki DHB will continue to work at both the nationalcollective level and at the DHB level to deliver the QIC programme over thenext 2-3 years.Taranaki DHB continues with its commitment to actively work with thenational collective to support the lead DHBs and to ensure that we as a DHBare prepared in terms of planning and resourcing to implement the results ofthese projects as they become available. We expect to be ready to startimplementing outputs as we move into the implementation phase of 2009/10.We note that many of the projects have a significant IT component that is yetto be funded. We will continue working with the Ministry of Health at thenational collective level to ensure investment decisions are made in a timelymanner.2. DHB Activity at the Local Level for 2009/10: The following table sets out arange of deliverables for the 2009/10 financial year. The table has twocolumns, the second contains paragraphs that we believe will be theminimum DAP requirements for DHBs. Common to all of the projects will beour ongoing commitment to contribute to applicable evaluation processes.20