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Westcoast DHB Successful Public Meetings
13 April 2012
Successful Public Meetings
During the second half of March, DHB Chief Medical Officer Dr Carol Atmore led a series of advertised public meetings up and down the West Coast on the future direction of the health system on the West Coast.
Dr Atmore spoke of a single, people-centred, integrated and viable health system that would support West Coasters to be well.
There were six key things that she said would enable this:
• Health care
home – an Integrated Family Health Care Service with
teams of nurses and doctors; and other healthcare
professionals working together in new ways
• Trans-alpine services – giving better
access and shorter waiting times with most services on the
Coast, supported by teams from Canterbury
• One door
for complex care - complex / long term care managed
together with improved assessment by multidisciplinary
teams
• Integration of information - timely
sharing of accurate information among members of the health
care team avoiding repetitive
questioning
• Transport – better transport
options for health care within the Coast and to and from
Christchurch
• Workforce - strong core of
generalist skills supported by specialists with stronger
linkages within the health system on the West Coast and with
Canterbury
There was acceptance of the need for the West Coast health system to live within its means and some valuable feedback about the issues that local communities considered important was received.
Some of the key issues
raised included
• Transport - within the Coast and to
and from other centres
• General Practice
issues
• Variety and provision of Hospital
services
• Planning for the discharge of patients from
hospital and follow-up care
• The use and limits of
technology on the West Coast
• Avoiding the duplication
of health services
Continued public input into the process will be maintained through the development of a new model of care for the West Coast health system.
People that missed Dr Atmore’s presentation can see it on www.westcoastdhb.org.nz
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