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MODULE FIVE: APPENDICES
 Glossary of Terms
 Output Class Definitions
 Output Class Revenue and Expenditure
 Output Measure Rationale
 Services funded but not provided by the DHB
 Accounting Policies
5.1 Glossary of Terms
Term
Description
Alliance Leadership Teams
The purpose of the Alliance Leadership Teams is to lead and guide our Alliances (with our primary care partners – Midlands Health Network, the National Hauora Coalition and Hauraki PHO) as they improve health outcomes for our population.
Catalyst Programme
This is a structured programme using lean methodologies to reduce cost through reducing waste and minimising variation. The approach is to use in-depth reviews which will include process review and benchmarking to identify opportunities and enable evidence based decision making for changes.
Crown Entity
A generic term for a diverse range of entities within 1 of the 5 categories referred to in section 7(1) of the Crown Entities Act 2004, namely: statutory entities, Crown entity companies, Crown entity subsidiaries, school boards of trustees, and tertiary education institutions. Crown entities are legally separate from the Crown and operate at arm’s length from the responsible or shareholding Minister(s); they are included in the annual financial statements of the Government.
Effectiveness
The extent to which objectives are being achieved. Effectiveness is determined by the relationship between an organisation and its external environment. Effectiveness indicators relate outputs to impacts and to outcomes. They can measure the steps along the way to achieving an overall objective or an Outcome and test whether outputs have the characteristics required for achieving a desired objective or government outcome.
HealthShare
A regional shared services agency jointly owned by Bay of Plenty, Lakes, Tairawhiti, Taranaki and Waikato DHBs.
Impact
Means the contribution made to an outcome by a specified set of goods and services (outputs), or actions, or both. It normally describes results that are directly attributable to the activity of an agency. For example, the change in the life expectancy of infants at birth and age one as a direct result of the increased uptake of immunisations. (Public Finance Act 1989).
Impact measures
Impact measures are attributed to agency (DHBs) outputs in a credible way. Impact measures represent near-term results expected from the goods and services you deliver; can be measured after delivery, promoting timely decisions; reveal specific ways in which managers can remedy performance shortfalls.
Initiatives / activities and actions
What we do with our inputs to create outputs, impacts and other deliverables.
Input
The resources such as labour, materials, money, people, information technology used by departments to produce outputs that will achieve the stated outcomes.
Intervention
An initiative, action or activity intended to enhance outcomes or otherwise benefit an agency or group.
Intervention logic model
A framework for describing the relationships between resources, activities and results. It provides a common approach for integrating planning, implementation, evaluation and reporting. Intervention logic also focuses on being accountable for what matters – impacts and outcomes.
Map of
Is an electronic platform providing evidence-based clinical pathways to the health
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