Māori Health Provider Development Scheme Open

Māori Health Provider Development Scheme Applications Open for 2010/11 funding round

The 2010/11 Māori Provider Development Scheme (MPDS) funding round opened this week with the application form and guidelines available from the Ministry of Health website (www.moh.govt.nz )
Wi Keelan, chief advisor, Maori Health for the Ministry of Health encourages all health providers, or health organisations that are owned and operated by iwi, and/or Māori organisations to visit the Ministry’s website for application forms.
The strategic objectives of MPDS are to:
• Enable Māori health providers to develop more effective health and disability services;
• Accelerate and improve workforce development by focusing on improving health management, administration and clinical expertise;
• Improve quality, accessibility and appropriateness of services to Māori;
• Improve integration and co-ordination of services to Māori.

MPDS will encourage a Whānau ora approach by supporting effective Māori health providers and a highly skilled Māori health workforce. MPDS will focus on Service Integration and Best Practice, to ensure collaboration (where relevant) with other service providers in education, housing, justice, welfare and employment sectors to improve Whānau wellbeing.

Applications close at 5 pm on Wednesday 28 May 2010.

BACKGROUND
Since 1997, the Māori Provider Development Scheme (MPDS) has been an important part of the continued development of Māori providers.

The scheme is administered by the Ministry of Health and provides contestable development funding to Māori health and disability providers.

Development funding has been used to strengthen information technology systems, patient management systems, integrated service approaches, assist accreditation to national quality standards, and Māori health workforce training.

To be eligible for the development funding an organisation must:
• be owned and governed by Māori, and providing health and disability services primarily but not exclusively to Māori,
• have a contract/s with the Ministry of Health and/or District Health Board (DHB) and/or Primary Health Organisation (PHO),
• be in the process of developing a contract with the Ministry of Health and/or District Health Board (DHB) and/or Primary Health Care Organisation (PHO)

ENDS