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Waikato DHB Accepts Report Data Findings
Media Release
Date: 9 May 2007
Waikato DHB Accepts
Report Data Findings
Waikato District Health Board has acknowledged that all acute and urgent patients requiring treatment are being seen though not always as promptly as best clinical practice would indicate.
Waikato District Health Board health services general manager Jan Adams was commenting on yesterday’s Ministry of Health releases which set out intervention rates for a selected group of procedures including general surgery, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, paediatric surgery, gynaecology, cardiology, plastics, and ear, nose and throat procedures compared with the national average.
Using data supplied by boards, the working parties calculated standardised discharge ratios (SDR) for each speciality area.
In Waikato every speciality group confirmed they were able to treat all patients requiring acute or urgent treatment.
Ms Adams said Waikato accepted the data findings and agreed there was room for improvement in areas where intervention rates appear to be below the national mean of one.
Waikato has received additional funding from the Ministry of Health and will use the findings of the report to work out where the extra money would be spent next financial year.
“The funding is sustainable,” said Ms Adams.
The data used to provide the results was the only national data set available and it had limitations which have been acknowledged by the ministry, she said.
“Waikato will also focus on ensuring that data provided is robust and will focus on areas of admit type such as acute, arranged and elective.
“This means the next set of results should better reflect Waikato DHB’s position.”
Eight Waikato DHB clinicians contributed through the ministry’s working group process.
Ms Adams said the SDRs compared relevance to other DHBs only and did not compare what the right level of intervention was.
But she said she supported the report as it gave all DHBs a measure to use to assess their intervention rates compared to other DHBs.
For Waikato
results please go
to:
http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/indexmh/electiveservices-intervententionrates
ENDS
Waikato District Health Board
Healthy People. Excellent Care
Waikato District Health Board (DHB) employs over 6500 people and plans, funds and provides hospital and health services to more than 391,770 people in a region covering eight per cent of New Zealand.
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