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Regional Clinical Action Groups
2.5 Child health (Child Health Action Group)
Chair: Dr David Graham Project Manager: Kerry-Ann Adlam Lead Chief Executive: Ron Dunham
Context:
Over the next year the Child Health Action Group will plan and work to develop Child Health Services across the Midland region to improve health outcomes and achieve equity in child health.
Child Health in the Midland region has been chosen as a focus area because it has different challenges to the rest of New Zealand in terms of the constitution of the population and the highest levels of poverty and rurality in the country. The Child Health Action Group work plan provides an opportunity to invest in the long term health of our children and future adult population by working together regionally to maximise health gains in a cost effective way.
Further aims include supporting vulnerable children and contributing to the Government’s overall priorities by improving services and reducing avoidable expenditure in the justice, health and welfare systems – helping to deliver better public services within financial constraints and helping build a more competitive and productive economy. So that all New Zealanders live well, stay well, get well, we will be people-powered, providing services closer to home, designed for value and high performance, and working as one team in a smart system (Update of the NZ Health Strategy 2015).
Goals for Child Health in the Midland region
 Achieve equity in child health outcomes in the Midland region
 Improve all child health outcomes in the Midland region
 Ensuring quality health services for all children
 Delivering effective and efficient care and services
 Increase systems integration across the continuum of child health care
 Build and improve the child health workforce
 Improve child health clinical information systems
 Best value for public child health system resources
Key Objectives:
 Recommend regional solutions to meet child health care needs in the primary, community and secondary sectors and implement solutions within current capacity
 Promote organised systems of care
 Support continuing work on Information Systems to support Child Health
 Consider and implement ‘choosing wisely’ approach
 Facilitate/promote regional Well Child/Tamariki Ora Quality Improvement initiatives
 Raise the profile of regionally-led child health improvement initiatives
How we will do this:
 Understand the impact of rurality, distance, ethnicity, deprivation and distribution of services on equity of access to services  Understand population health needs
 Understand intervention rates and equity of access across the region
 Facilitate initiatives that enhance and sustain the delivery of child health services locally and regionally
 Explore ways to better utilise clinical resources across the region
 Explore ways to better integrate care between primary, secondary and tertiary services
Measures*:
 Increased immunisation rates  Lower rates of SUDI
 Reduced rates of rheumatic fever  Reduced ‘did not attend’ (DNA) rates
 Reduced ambulatory sensitive hospitalisation (ASH) rates – specifically gastroenteritis, asthma and community acquired pneumonia  Improved regional performance against the WCTO Quality Indicators
* by ethnicity, locality and deprivation where possible
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