National Healthlink e-referrals user group

posted by Jon Herries on 21 Mar 2012

Place for discussion the development of e-referrals, on the Healthlink platform. To receive alerts when someone posts a comment on…

ESPWP Final Reports

posted by Tony Crane on 23 May 2012

The purpose of this page is to provide an accessible home for these reports as they are received.   "Receipt" entails…

IT Health Board: Exciting times for emergency departments as electronic solution emerges

posted by Research Admin on 29 Mar 2012

A group of clinicians is ready to recommend a national solution for emergency department information systems. The smart use of…

A structured approach to transforming a large public hospital emergency department via lean methodologies (USA)

posted by Research Admin on 23 Dec 2011

Emergency Departments (EDs) face significant challenges in providing efficient, quality, safe, cost-effective care. Lean methodologies are a proposed framework to…

Investment in medicines highest in PHARMAC history

posted by Research Admin on 15 Dec 2011

Media release: PHARMAC, 15 December 2011 A surge in the medicines budget over the past three years, combined with PHARMAC's…

Diabetes Workforce Service Review

posted by Research Admin on 3 Aug 2011

Reviews of what the future health workforce in New Zealand will look like have been undertaken in 12 specialties. The…

New primary care role to be tested

posted by Research Admin on 4 Aug 2011

A new type of health care worker to be introduced in a number of Auckland GP practices aims to benefit…

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training at ADHB

posted by John McTaggart on 9 Sep 2010

Our first Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training has recently been completed and our second 'wave' of training started last…

Evaluation of MidCentral DHB's Medical Assessment and Planning Unit (MAPU)

posted by Shirley-Anne on 26 Apr 2011

New Zealand Health Survey starts this week

posted by Research Admin on 30 Mar 2011

The New Zealand Health Survey, which gets underway at the end of this week, will provide valuable information about New…

23 Hour Concept

posted by nic.maurice on 21 Mar 2011

Outpatient & DOSA based acute surgery

posted by nic.maurice on 21 Mar 2011

Emptying the corridors of shame: Organizational lessons From England’s 4-hour emergency throughput target

posted by Gary Tonkin on 11 Mar 2011

Since 2005, 98% of patients treated in England’s emergency departments must be discharged or placed in a hospital bed within…

Emergency department overcrowding not due to general practice patients, say doctors

posted by Research Admin on 25 Jan 2011

The NZ Faculty of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine (ACEM) has responded to a media release from the New…

National Health Board eNewsletter - February 2011

posted by Research Admin on 16 Feb 2011

Contents of the February issue: From the Chair From the Director's Desk From the Director-General of Health Management of patients…

Reducing hospital readmissions - what worked for three US hospitals

posted by Tom Schaefer on 10 Feb 2011

This article from JAMA’s American Medical News, looks at how three US hospitals found success in reducing readmissions. In the…

Releasing Time to Care...the ADHB Way (video)

posted by Maxine Stead on 8 Dec 2010

Auckland District Health Board first introduced Releasing Time to Care in December 2009. To celebrate and share the success of…

The Productive Operating Theatre: DHB Monthly Report Template

posted by Joe McDonald on 1 Nov 2010

This is an online copy of the template that DHBs are asked to complete at month end to report progress…

Bed Management Project

posted by corinne renshaw on 13 Sep 2010

MidCentral DHB's Medical Assessment and Planning Unit (MAPU)

posted by corinne renshaw on 10 Sep 2010