HCA Chief Executive Jon Royal has been busy since joining HCA in May this year. His presentation provided a realistic look at Health Care Aotearoa’s current situation and its opportunities for growth. “My role is to ensure you continue as best as you can as an organisation called Health Care Aotearoa in a much easier [...]
The 2011 Health Care Aotearoa AGM agreed to widening its membership base to align with governments push to have greater collaboration and integration. This is not only within the sector but across all sectors. The AGM agreed to: • change the constitution to reflect the expansion of membership to include community social service agencies alongside [...]
Well Health Trust The Health Ministry’s drive to reduce the number of PHOs in New Zealand in 2009 has seen them fall from 80 to 32. $25 million dollars of primary health care funding was reconfigured so frontline health services could improve. The success of the PHOs downsizing (PHOmosis) can be measured on a number [...]
Massey University Professor Don Matheson opened the hui with a inspiring account of how we can and must continue to make a difference in health equity. His presentation covered: NZ history of health equity Recent negative trends Global issues and Looking forward Health equity Health equity is the difference between populations that are unfair and [...]
Trevor McKinley – Executive Officer for NZ Christian Social Services (NZCSS) gave an insightful presentation on: understanding and working with a national led government, a more equal society, and what’s coming up for the vulnerable. Understanding a national government Trevor says the five years in his role has been a real learning curve. “You think that [...]