PHO Performance Programme

The next Advisory Group meeting is scheduled for 14 July 2009 in Wellington. This replaces the meeting planned for 8 June. Topics tabled for discussion include:

Smoking indicators – preparation of the proposal that will be forwarded to Governance Group requesting that the indicators be endorsed for implementation;
Public reporting – support for the commentary developed by the Programme to explain DHB level public reporting and advice on how best to approach PHO level public reporting;
National Immunisation Register (NIR) transition – advice on the activities/issues that should be considered as part of the Programme’s analysis for transitioning from using the PHO Service Utilisation Reports to source immunisation data, to the NIR;
Referred Services Management (RSM) financial indicators – advice on the appropriateness/validity of the RSM laboratory and pharmaceutical expenditure indicators in the Programme’s ‘funded’ performance indicator set;
CVD and Diabetes prevalence model – discussion about how the Programme has calculated PHO prevalence estimates and the impacts of these on PHO reporting;
Target setting – advice on concerns which some PHOs have raised with the Programme regarding the setting of six monthly and annual targets;
Programme evaluation recommendations – discussion about the improvement recommendations drafted by the Programme, based on key findings from the Programme evaluation conducted last year.

Details of the key messages resulting from the meeting will be communicated to you in the next bulletin.

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GOVERNANCE GROUP MEETING

A copy of the media statement released by the Governance Group after its meeting on 29 May 2009 is provided below.

Media Statement

The next meeting of the Governance Group is on Friday 7^th August.

Please note that all media releases and confirmed minutes resulting from meetings held in 2009 onwards will be available via the DHBNZ website.

On 26 May 2009 the Programme Manager attended the quarterly BPAC NZ Ltd Clinical Advisory Group (CLAG) meeting held in Wellington. BPAC Ltd is contracted by the Programme to provide a national education service (including best practice and utilisation feedback) to PHOs and their contracted providers. These services include the preparation of resource materials for national use in relation to the performance indicators implemented by the Programme (e.g. Best Practice Journals).

Future campaigns which BPAC Ltd will base educational materials on (as agreed by the Programme) include cervical screening, breast screening and reducing the morbidity rates arising from complications associated to diabetes.

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Reporting.....

MONTHLY REPORTS

Thank you to everyone who has provided feedback on the Programme’s monthly reporting process introduced recently to address PHOs’ requests to increase the frequency of data provided by the Programme. You will notice that some of the fields in the reports have been renamed to give greater clarity about what the data in each field relates to.

These reports are based on the data that is available to the Programme at the time the reports are generated.

Please note with respect to Influenza data, if a vaccination has been provided within a particular month BUT is not available via the national collection when the Programme requests data for that month, the vaccination will not be included in the monthly report count. The monthly report information is based on the services that have been sent to the national collection for that month (as opposed to the quarterly reports which are based on dates of service).

The monthly reporting schedule is as follows:


Month Reported	Date Data Due To Programme	Date Data Reported to PHOs
1 June to 30 June	20 July	25 July
1 July to 31 July	20 August	25 August
1 August to 31 August	20 September	25 September
1 September to 30 September	20 October	25 October
1 October to 30 October	20 November	25 November
1 November to 30 November	20 December	25 December
1 December to 31 December	20 January	25 January

If you wish to suggest further changes to the Programme’s monthly reports email PHOPerformance@dhbnz.org.nz

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PROVIDER LISTS | SERVICE UTILISATION AND CLINICAL PERFORMANCE INDICATOR REPORTS

The next series of data reports for the period 1 April to 30 June 2009 are due to the Programme by 20 July 2009. Please forward this information directly to merita.tuala@dhbnz.org.nz in the required formats as soon as possible.

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QUARTERLY REPORTS

All DHB, PHO and Ministry of Health Performance Reports, Scorecards and Dashboards for the period 1 July to 31 December 2008 have been replaced on the website. It was necessary to replace the reports due to the Programme being sent a number of corrected Service Utilisation and Clinical Performance Indicator data sets AFTER the reports had been initially released. The Programme recognises the importance of ensuring that the data it reports is accurate. The corrected data affected the national indicator values and some regional values.

The Programme’s next series of DHB, PHO and Ministry of Health progress reports are due to be posted to the members-only pages of the DHBNZ website at the end of July. These reports will report PHO progress against performance indicator targets to 31 March 2009.

Any inquiries can be directed to PHOPerformance@dhbnz.org.nz

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Work in Development......

CVD & DIABETES PREVALENCE

The Programme is happy to answer any questions about the prevalence model it uses to calculate PHO prevalence for CVD and Diabetes under estimating the number of expected prevalence rates for some PHOs. The model was developed in partnership with the Ministry of Health and was based on the most accurate information available at the time. It is being used in different ways by both organisations. The Programme is working with the Ministry of Health to align processes and will be communicating more information regarding prevalence in the near future. The Programme will continue to work with the Ministry of Health in an effort to see that the data collected from PHOs is considered when the prevalence estimates are updated for the 2009/10 year.

Any inquiries can be directed to shane.kerr@dhbnz.org.nz

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NATIONAL IMMUNISATION REGISTER (NIR) TRANSITION

The Programme is investigating the activities that need to be considered as part of the analysis required for transitioning from using the PHO Service Utilisation Reports to source immunisation data, to the NIR. The Programme has already been made aware of some data and access issues with the NIR. If you are aware of any issues or concerns that need to be addressed prior to the transition, please forward these directly to Vicky.li@dhbnz.org.nz as soon as possible.

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SMOKING INDICATORS

At the request of the Governance Group the four smoking indicators developed for Programme implementation by the previous Advisory Group members (in consultation with the Ministry of Health) have been reviewed by the new Advisory Group.

The smoking indicators are tabled for further discussion at the next Advisory Group meeting and following that, a proposal will be forwarded to the Governance Group requesting that the indicators be endorsed for implementation.

Any inquiries can be directed to vicky.li@dhbnz.org.nz

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Other.....

EXTENSION TO THE 2009 INFLUENZA VACCINATION SEASON

The Ministry of Health has notified DHBNZ that the 2009 Influenza vaccination season has been extended from 30 June to 30 September. Please be aware that the Programme will be updating its processes accordingly to ensure accurate ‘vaccination counts’ are measured.

Any inquiries can be directed to natasha.maraku@dhbnz.org.nz

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Contact Us …..

DHBNZ Team


Title	Email	Phone
Programme Manager	Serena Curtis-Lemuelu	04 803 5818
Account Manager\Analyst	Natasha Maraku	04 803 5808
Developer\Analyst	Thangamani Maroli	09 580 9056
Change Coordinator\Analyst	Merita Tuala	04 803 5821
Analyst	Vicky Li	04 803 5815
Analyst	Shane Kerr	04 803 5809
Support Coordinator	Carine Haidamous	04 803 5802

Regional Analysts


Region	Email
Northern	Alroy Swain
	Ling Liu
Central	Rebecca McDowell