40081 (2024). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Minister of Health

Written Question

Published date: 23 Jul 2024

Metadata

Document type:	Written Question
Parliament number:	54
Question number:	40081 (2024)
Question asked:	09 Jul 2024
Member asking:	Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall
Portfolio:	Minister of Health
Minister replying:	Hon Dr Shane Reti
Answer received:	17 Jul 2024
Status:	Question Answered
Reply type:	Reply
Document ID:	WQ_40081_2024
Document guid:	23864f42-df16-4f6b-93ca-9ba1eb2ae0a8

40081 (2024). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Minister of Health: What progress, if any, has been made in the last quarter to address the analysis ‘Productivity measures are limited to those which can be reliably collected by Service Improvement and Innovation (SI&I), and we have a one-year roadmap in play (SI&I, Finance, H&SS and EY). Our focus is on operating theatres and bed flow management’ as detailed on page 50,51 of Te Whatu Ora’s Quarterly Performance Report (January to March 2024)?

Hon Dr Shane Reti: I am advised that in the January to March 2024 quarter, a suite of measures was drafted to more fully reflect drivers of productivity. This includes developing a method for calculating paid FTE and an estimate of uncoded discharges in order to enable reliable reporting of recent activity. I am further advised that Health New Zealand has developed an internal productivity dashboard which does allow users to drill down any measures to district level or to summarise at entity level.