Improving health services for patients

National is committed to putting patients first. We want to free up resources for more and better frontline services for patients.
That’s why we’re having a major shake up of the public health service’s back office and administrative functions.
New Zealand’s 21 District Health Boards need to stop reinventing the wheel 21 times in areas like payroll and IT. Shared and better planning of these back office services will free up money for better quality frontline services for patients.
Our changes will save up to $700 million in the next five years. This would pay for 16,000 heart bypass operations or build two large city hospitals.
These changes are about making the current system work better by filling in the missing links, and aiming to provide better, sooner, more convenient, services to patients.
For more information go to:http://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/major+push+lift+public+health+performance