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Initiatives
Milestone/Date
Responsibility
undertaking to improve cancer services
10.2 Continue to support Midland to implement the Midland Medical Advanced Palliative
Care Trainee Model of Service (2015)
10.3 Support research and clinical trial initiatives i.e. HRC funded Breast Cancer Research;
Supportive Care for Women with Breast Cancer at High Risk; Prostate Cancer initiatives;
Palliative Care Research initiatives
10.4 Support DHBs to implement new cancer psychologists and social workers as per the
Midland Psychological and Social Support Services Plan 2015-2018
Q1-4 2016/17 ongoing
Waikato DHB as lead, Midland Palliative Care Work Group
Waikato Clinical School
1: Improve Māori health outcomes
2: Integrate across continuums of care
3: Improve quality across all regional services
4: Build the workforce
5: Improve clinical information systems
6: Efficiently allocate public health system resources
2.3.
Initiatives
2. Improved access to diagnostics for endoscopy/colonoscopy services
The following actions aim to improve waiting times and quality of endoscopy/colonoscopy services
2.1. Continue to facilitate the Midland Colorectal and Midland Colonoscopy Work Groups to
improve services
2.2. Establish a Midland Bowel Screening Work Group to start regional conversations
regarding pathways and implications should there be national rollout of a bowel
screening service
2.2. Support using the Global Rating Scale (GRS) as part of the National Endoscopy Quality
Improvement Programme (NEQIP) by supporting DHBs with operational policies
2.4. Support DHBs to undertake post implementation review of ProVation for Lakes and BOP
DHBs. Support Tairāwhiti implementation as required
2.5. Support use of the National Referral Criteria for Direct Access Outpatient Colonoscopy -
Undertake a regional evaluation of the Midland colonoscopy e-referral 6 months post implementation
1: Improve Māori health outcomes
2: Integrate across continuums of care
3: Improve quality across all regional services
4: Build the workforce
5:Improve clinical information systems
6: Efficiently allocate public health system resources
Initiatives
Milestone/Date
Responsibility
3. Lead for National Lung Cancer Work Programme
Midland Cancer Network holds a Ministry of Health Agreement to provide secretariat and project management support for the National Lung Cancer Working Group work programme priorities which are to:
3.1. Develop early detection of lung cancer guidance (timeframe tbc)
3.2. Develop lung cancer follow-up and surveillance guidance by 30/6/17 3.3. Develop a revised national lung cancer dataset by 30/6/17
1: Improve Māori health outcomes
Key:
2: Integrate across continuums of care
3. Improve quality across all regional services
Actions are specifically aimed at achieving this objective
Actions will achieve this objective but as an indirect consequence
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4. Build the workforce
Milestone/Date
Q1-4 2016/17 Q1 2016/17
Q3 2016/17 Q3 2016/17
5: Improve clinical information systems
Responsibility
Midland DHBs
BOP and Lakes DHBs MCN
Q1 2016/17 Q4 2016/17 Q4 2016/17
Midland Cancer Network in partnership with National Lung Cancer Working Group
6: Efficiently allocate public health system resources