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4.2.5.2 Local Collaboration
We work with other agencies (for example Ministry of Education, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Social Development, Police, Tertiary Education Commission, Housing NZ as well as other central government agencies and local government) to improve the determinants of health.
Examples of intersectoral collaboration include:
 Youth Social Sector Trials
 Whānau Ora Integrated Contracts
 Project Energize
 Waikato Spatial Plan
 Accident Compensation Corporation and DHB relationship
 Healthy Homes initiatives
4.2.6 Long Term Demand Forecasting
We are experiencing an increasing mismatch of health service demand, supply and affordability. Increases in service delivery in one area can mean that less resource will available in another other areas. The health sector cannot continue to operate in the same way as it has been if we expect to be clinically and financially sustainable into the future.
Long term demand forecasting is one of the tools we must use to inform decisions around reforming health sector configurations and related models of care if we are to move forward with a sustainable, affordable and fit for purpose health sector. These reforms have already begun in the shape of:
 Programmes like the better, sooner, more convenient health care initiatives
 Expectations for closer integration of services across the care continuum to improve
convenience for patients and reduce pressure on hospitals
 Regional service planning.
We will continue to participate in demand forecasting work as well as exploring the use of modelling and simulation techniques to assist in shaping services. These techniques can improve both efficiency and quality of services through a range of applications including:
 Waiting time reduction
 Scheduling
 Bed capacity management
 Workforce planning
 Commissioning
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