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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.
Whānau Ora Update No. 25 – August 2014
Thanks to Ellie and Jensen for taking a moment to chat with us. If you have a story
or initiative to share, drop us a line. We’d love to hear from you.
Drop us a line If you have any questions or a story or initiative to share, please drop us a line at [email protected]. In the meantime, ka kite ano and we’ll see you next month.
Ellie Berghan, Population Health Strategist – Māori Health, with Jensen Webber, Portfolio Manager – Māori and Pacific Health.