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Whānau Ora Update Kia ora tatou, In this issue we hear from Northland DHB and learn about their long history of working closely with Māori providers, how that’s transitioned with collectives under Whānau Ora and, in particular, some of the things they’re learning along the way. As always, if you have a story or an initiative you’d like to share or learn more about, drop us a line at [email protected] Northland DHB Working Alongside Collectives This month we caught up with Ellie Berghan and Jensen Webber from Northland DHB to learn a bit more about the way they are working alongside collectives in their region. “We’ve been working in partnership with the Māori providers in our region for more than a decade,” Ellie explains. “We began working with providers to plan and develop services for Māori together. One of the early outputs of these relationships was a 20082013 Maori Health strategic plan for the region,” Ellie recalls. “The DHB, PHOs, and Māori Health providers came together on this – we wanted to address the underlying social and economic determinants of Maori health (poverty, employment, education, housing and the natural environment without distracting from the provision of effective health and disability services. This led to quite a broad strategic plan.” “When Whānau Ora was established, the providers we’d been working with over the last decade joined together to form the Te Tai Tokerau Whānau Ora Collective,” Ellie adds. Along with Te Tai Tokerau Whanau Ora Collective, three additional collectives were formed (Te Hau Āwhiowhio o Ōtangarei, Te Pū o Te Wheke o Ngāpuhi, and Ngā Ripo. With the relationships already well established, it was a fairly easy transition to work with the collectives under the Whānau Ora banner. Jensen picks up from Ellie to describe the broader, outcomes focused approach that the team are working to introduce: “We’re trying to pursue an RBA (ResultsBased Accountability) framework with providers. In some ways the providers are actually already further ahead on this than we are, so a lot of it is about aligning our processes and capturing and sharing our data more effectively,” Jensen explains. “We’ve had all the usual issues with data validity and consistency when working across multiple providers and agencies. Whānau Ora Update for District Health Boards Issue 25 – August 2014

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       Whānau  Ora  Update      

Kia  ora  tatou,    In  this  issue  we  hear  from  Northland  DHB  and  learn  about  their  long  history  of  working  closely  with  Māori  providers,  how  that’s  transitioned  with  collectives  under  Whānau  Ora  and,  in  particular,  some  of  the  things  they’re  learning  along  the  way.    

As  always,  if  you  have  a  story  or  an  initiative  you’d  like  to  share  or  learn  more  about,  drop  us  a  line  at  [email protected]    

Northland  DHB  -­‐  Working  Alongside  Collectives    

This  month  we  caught  up  with  Ellie  Berghan  and  Jensen  Webber  from  Northland  DHB  to  learn  a  bit  more  about  the  way  they  are  working  alongside  collectives  in  their  region.      “We’ve  been  working  in  partnership  with  the  Māori  providers  in  our  region  for  more  than  a  decade,”  Ellie  explains.      “We  began  working  with  providers  to  plan  and  develop  services  for  Māori  together.  One  of  the  early  outputs  of  these  relationships  was  a  2008-­‐2013  Maori  Health  strategic  plan  for  the  region,”  Ellie  recalls.    “The  DHB,  PHOs,  and  Māori  Health  providers  came  together  on  this  –  we  wanted  to  address  the  underlying  social  and  economic  determinants  of  Maori  health  (poverty,  employment,  education,  housing  and  the  natural  environment  without  distracting  from  the  provision  of  effective  health  and  disability  services.  This  led  to  quite  a  broad  strategic  plan.”      “When  Whānau  Ora  was  established,  the  providers  we’d  been  working  with  over  the  

last  decade  joined  together  to  form  the  Te  Tai  Tokerau  Whānau  Ora  Collective,”  Ellie  adds.      Along  with  Te  Tai  Tokerau  Whanau  Ora  Collective,  three  additional  collectives  were  formed  (Te  Hau  Āwhiowhio  o  Ōtangarei,  Te  Pū  o  Te  Wheke  o  Ngāpuhi,  and  Ngā  Ripo.  With  the  relationships  already  well  established,  it  was  a  fairly  easy  transition  to  work  with  the  collectives  under  the  Whānau  Ora  banner.      Jensen  picks  up  from  Ellie  to  describe  the  broader,  outcomes  focused  approach  that  the  team  are  working  to  introduce:  “We’re  trying  to  pursue  an  RBA  (Results-­‐Based  Accountability)  framework  with  providers.  In  some  ways  the  providers  are  actually  already  further  ahead  on  this  than  we  are,  so  a  lot  of  it  is  about  aligning  our  processes  and  capturing  and  sharing  our  data  more  effectively,”  Jensen  explains.      “We’ve  had  all  the  usual  issues  with  data  validity  and  consistency  when  working  across  multiple  providers  and  agencies.  

Whānau Ora Update for District Health Boards

Issue 25 – August 2014

Whānau Ora Update No. 25 – August 2014

We’ve  worked  in  two  stages  -­‐  the  first  stage  was  data  cleansing…tidying  up  all  of  the  process  and  practices  regarding  data.”    “We’ve  made  some  steady  progress  here,”  he  adds,  “and  our  focus  is  now  moving  much  more  towards  the  RBA  framework.  A  number  of  the  providers  have  already  had  exposure  to  this  and  are  ready  for  change.”    “Within  the  DHB  we  identified  the  need  to  have  prioritised  care  pathways  in  place  to  support  our  vision  of  a  healthier  Northland.  To  support  that  we’ve  developed  a  strategic  plan  for  the  region  built  on  the  Triple  Aim  approach,”  Jensen  explains.      The  Triple  Aim  approach  incorporates  a  three-­‐way  focus  on  population  health  (population  risk  identification  and  management),  patient  experience  (service  improvement  from  the  customer’s  perspective),  and  cost  control  (finding  ways  to  reduce  the  per  capita  cost  of  care).          Back  in  2012  we  identified  the  need  to  have  prioritised  pathways  in  place  towards  our  vision  of  a  healthier  Northland,  so  the  health  sector  developed  a  strategic  plan  for  Northland  around  the  triple  aim  theory.  The  Triple  Aim  approach  is  about  tackling  each  of  these  aspects  together  to  impact  the  health  of  a  community  in  a  more  effective  and  more  sustainable  way.    “We  have  an  ageing  population  with  a  growing  demand  for  health  services  and  a  decreasing  pool  of  funding  to  cater  for  it.  We  need  to  think  differently  about  how  we  do  this,  and  to  do  that  we  need  to  work  together  in  the  region,”  Ellie  explains.      “We’re  also  working  closely  with  Tumu  Whakarae  who  prompt  us  all  to  continually  think  about  how  to  accelerate  performance  to  improve  Māori  Health  gains.”      “It’s  always  a  two-­‐way  thing,”  says  Jensen.  “As  a  DHB  we  make  some  of  our  advantages  available  to  the  providers  we  work  with  in  the  collectives  –  they  have  similar  costs  to  us  in  a  number  of  areas  where  we  can  help  out  

with  purchasing  power  because  of  the  economies  of  scale  we  have.  That  can  really  help  reduce  some  of  the  resource  costs  to  providers.”      “Similarly,  there’s  an  enormous  amount  of  skill  and  expertise  out  there  among  the  providers  that  we  see  through  our  relationship  with  the  collectives.  We  don’t  take  the  opportunity  to  leverage  that  across  the  region  as  a  whole  nearly  enough,”  he  reflects.        “A  number  of  the  Māori  providers  are  further  ahead  of  us  in  their  thinking  here  –  they’re  already  focused  on  outcomes  and  figuring  out  how  to  measure  whether  what  they  do  actually  makes  a  difference  for  whanau,”  Ellie  adds.      “A  lot  of  our  contracts  and  services  are  structured  to  report  on  specific  outputs  but  they  don’t  often  measure  the  overall  outcome  as  clearly.  We  know  what  we  did  and  how  much  it  cost,  but  do  we  know  whether  anyone  is  better  off  as  a  result?  I  think  we  can  learn  quite  a  lot  from  some  of  our  providers  there.”      There’s  a  lot  happening  in  the  Northland  region  –  with  children’s  action  plan  and  social  sector  trials  already  underway,  and  the  Healthy  Families  NZ  coming  online  shortly.  They’re  also  working  to  draw  greater  value  from  the  data  they  hold  across  the  region  –  geo-­‐mapping  hospital  admissions  by  locality  to  identify  community  health  trends  early.      But  none  of  this  would  have  any  impact  without  the  relationships  and  trust  that  has  been  built  over  a  solid  history  between  the  DHB,  the  Whanau  Ora  Collectives,  the  Northland  PHOs  and  the  region’s  Māori  Health  providers.      More  than  anything  else,  it’s  our  investment  in  relationships  that  seems  to  set  an  environment  for  greater  health  outcomes  in  the  communities  we  serve.      

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Thanks  to  Ellie  and  Jensen  for  taking  a  moment  to  chat  with  us.  If  you  have  a  story  

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Ellie  Berghan,  Population  Health  Strategist  –  Māori  Health,  with    Jensen  Webber,  Portfolio  Manager  –  Māori  and  Pacific  Health.