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Key publications and policies

Setting our direction

  • Waikato DHB Health System Plan, Te Korowai Waiora (published August 2019)
    A 10 year plan that sets out a pathway to meet the challenges of the future and to have a Waikato health system that works for our communities.

  • Waikato DHB Resource Review (published June 2019)
    A commissioned review of Waikato DHB’s resources, to ascertain whether they are adequately allocated within the organisation, and identify areas where improvements can be made without compromising clinical safety and outcomes. The review focuses mainly on Waikato Hospital.

  • Waikato DHB Strategy (published 2016)
    Developed after community consultation in 2016, the strategy established Waikato DHB’s vision and mission, and six strategic imperatives.

Annual planning and reporting cycle

Legislation passed on 30 April 2020 allowed Ministers to extend the time for meeting planning requirements that apply under the Crown Entities Act 2004 (DHB Statements of Intent (SOI) /Statements of Performance Expectations (SPE)) by up to three months due to the impacts of Covid-19.  The Minister of Health has invoked this power granting an extension for DHBs to prepare and publish a  SOI/SPE for 2020/21.  The reason the extension has been granted is to reflect the revised timelines agreed for finalising 2020/21 DHB annual plans due to COVID-19 impacts, and to ensure quality SOI/SPE documents are produced that align with DHB annual plans and appropriately reflect COVID-19 recovery.

Waikato DHB gives notice that finalising and publishing its 2020/21 SPE will be delayed but will occur before 15 August 2020. This extension will ensure the Waikato DHB is able to adequately assess its operations in the forthcoming financial year and enable it to provide a better SPE than it would be able to if the extension were not granted.

Waikato DHB published its operative SOI in 2019/20 and does not intend to update this for 2020/21.

Adverse events

Human Resources and Organisational Development

Maternity Improvement

Mental Health and Addictions

Midland Regional DHBs

Midwifery

Nursing

Palliative Care

Research

Suicide Prevention and Postvention

Waikato Health Trust 

Waikato DHB developed a set of position statements on identified public health issues.
The purpose of these position statements is to provide high level documents representing Waikato DHB’s position as an organisation on these issues, and to clarify the organisation’s position for Waikato DHB staff.

Some of the key Waikato DHB policies of public interest are provided below.

Health profiles provide data and information related to identified health priority areas and priority population groups in the Waikato DHB region.

The Early Childhood Health Profile

Designed to inform and further enhance the Population Health approach to improve early childhood health gains for children under 5 years of age.

The objectives of this profile are

  • to provide access to child health data for under 5-year olds for the Waikato DHB region, and
  • identify the social determinants of health that both influence and impact on the health and wellbeing of children under 5 years of age.

ECE Health Profile 2017 [PDF, 1.4 MB]

The Youth Wellbeing Profile

Designed to inform and further enhance the work of Public Health in education settings. It will be used to guide the understanding of health and wellbeing among young people aged 13-24 years in the Waikato DHB region.

The objectives of this profile are to:

  • identify the strengths of Waikato based youth
  • acknowledge potential areas of focus where additional support is needed
  • explore the overlapping domains of health and education
  • support a whole school approach to health and wellbeing in education settings.

Youth Wellbeing Profile 2019 [PDF, 8.2 MB]

Waikato DHB Māori and Pacific Health Profiles

These profiles provide a snapshot of key statistics around the health and wellbeing of the Māori and Pacific populations across the Waikato DHB region.  The health indicators used in this document are reported in an info-graphic style and are structured specifically to Māori and Pacific models of health.

The main sources of statistical information contained in these documents are from Statistics NZ Census, Waikato DHB Health Register, Ministry of Health and for the Pacific profile we have been able to obtain some primary care data. 

Territorial Authority (TA) Health Profiles

In 2015 a health profile was developed for each Territorial Authority (TA) within our Waikato DHB region which shows the latest statistics on demographics, key health issues, socioeconomic determinants, and projections utilising infographics. Tables show more detailed statistics such as comparisons between TA and DHB, Maori and Non-Maori, and development over time. 

Waikato DHB Health Profile 2015 [PDF, 332 KB]