Statement of Service Performance for year ended 30 June 2013
What are we trying to achieve?
The Bay of Plenty District Health Board (DHB) is the largest funder and provider of health and disability services
in the Bay of Plenty. The actions we take in terms of which services to fund, and at what level, have a
significant impact on the health of our 215,000 residents. In achieving our vision of ‘healthy, thriving
communities,’ it is important that we understand the level of need within our population, as well as the
current and future drivers of service demand. We take a long-term view, and shift resources to where we
believe that they are most needed, in order to improve the health of our population, while ensuring that our
health system is sustainable.
This section provides an overview of the key elements of our outcomes framework, which is designed to align
with the strategic direction and statement of intent of the Ministry of Health, and the Midland region, of which
we are one of the five member DHBs. Our strategy identifies three strategic goals (which we refer to as 5-10
year outcomes). These are:
1. People take greater responsibility for their own health:
The development of services that support people to stay well and take increased responsibility for
their own health and wellbeing.
2. People stay well in their homes and communities:
The development of integrated, primary and community services that support people in their own
home or a community-based setting and provide a point of ongoing continuity of care.
3. People receive timely and appropriate care:
The provision of specialist resources and services in response to episodic events in both a hospital and
primary setting.
These long-term outcomes will be achieved through the combined efforts of all those people working across
the Bay of Plenty health system, central and local government, other DHBs within and outside of our region,
and the wider health and social services sector. Every year we commit to evidencing the state of our
population’s health and our progress toward our intended outcomes. We have identified long-term outcome
measures to track our performance toward our aims. Given the long-term nature of these outcomes, our goal
is to make a measurable change over time, rather than achieve a specific annual target.
The intervention logic diagram on the following page visually demonstrates how these strategic goals and the
outcomes we are seeking will contribute to the goals of the Midland region, and the overarching sector goals
of Government. These diagrams illustrate both a framework for measuring and monitoring our performance,
as well as a demonstration at a strategic level of our progress to date.
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