15 February 2012 - Auckland District Health Board

establishing links with Primary care services. There is strong evidence that this does
not happen often, and may contribute to high readmissions rates of Pacific children to
hospital.
Compared to last year, there is a noticeable trend in the increasing need for financial
assistance for hospitalised patients and families. Aside from non-residents, families
need help with food parcels (14) and transport. PFSU is able to access volunteer
community groups e.g. International Church, Mt Eden, and local Khyber Pass St
Davids Food bank.
Contrary to the common view that the Pacific elderly are cared for at home by
extended family members, admissions of Pacific elderly patients to ACH are showing
that a greater proportion are these patients are now being discharged to rest homes
or private hospitals – Family meetings and discussion by PFSU staff and Pacific
families have identified that most say they cannot cope with caring for their elderly
parent or family member without external assistance. In most cases, many of them
are unaware of or do not know where to get appropriate support. The current HOP
contracts with Pacific Provider to support and deliver Daycare services and role of
the HOP Parish Community Nurse and Self Management Education Nurse are
important for engaging with Pacific communities.
4 Board performance priorities
The Board has set 10 priority areas. These have been mapped to the Regional and
DAP goals and the key result areas specified by the MoH as follows:
Regional goal
Improved
population health
Improved patient
experience
Cost and
productivity
management
Auckland DHB
Goal
Lift the health of
people living in
the ADHB area
Performance
improvement
Live within our
means
Auckland DHB
Key Result
Areas
Improved health
status
Better quality
care
Increased patient
safety
Staff engagement
Economic
sustainability
Board Priorities
Chronic disease
management
Health of older people
New models of care
Emergency care
Elective surgery
Shorter waiting times
for cancer treatment
Clinical leadership
Culture
Progress in each area is summarised in this report under three headings:
Regionalisation through
collaboration
Living within our means
Proceeding to plan
Issues being addressed
Target unlikely to be met