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4.1.7.4 Community Input
We regularly engage with a number of advisory groups, working groups, consumer groups and community health forums. Their advice and input assists in the development of DHB strategies and plans.
Community Health Forums are made up of local people representing specific geographical regions. They support and advise us about local health issues, activities and priorities for their community. They are also mechanisms for ensuring communities are kept involved in and informed of DHB activities and issues. A review the Community Health Forums commenced in late 2014/15 with a focus on building and strengthening community input. We expect the review to be completed in 2015/16 and recommendations for improvement to be identified.
4.2 Building Capability
This section outlines the capabilities we will need in the next three to five years as well as touching on the approach in the short term to work towards developing these.
4.2.1 HealthShare Limited
HealthShare Limited, established in 2001, is a regional Shared Services Agency jointly owned by Bay of Plenty, Lakes, Tairawhiti, Taranaki and Waikato District Health Boards. From August 2011 HealthShare Limited has taken on an expanded role as a regional provider of non-clinical service and now provides operational support in a number of areas identified as benefiting from a regional solution.
The Midland region DHBs determine the services that HealthShare Limited will provide, and the level of these services, on an annual basis. These determinations are made through the Regional Services Plan and regional business case processes. Categories of possible regional service delivery include:
 Activities that support future regional direction and change through the development of regional plans
 Facilitating the development of clinical service initiatives undertaken by regional clinical networks and regional action groups that support clinical service change
 Key functions that support and enable change through the ongoing development of the region’s workforce and information systems
 Back office service provision that can drive efficiencies at a regional level, alongside new national back office shared services.
The annually agreed regional services form the basis for HealthShare Limited’s Business Plan which specifies the company’s performance framework; the services to be provided; and the associated performance measures. The Business Plan also details, at a service level, the activities that have been purchased by the shareholding DHBs.
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