General Practice Teams Performing Well in the MDHB Region

5/09/2011 | GP Targets

General practice teams in the MidCentral DHB region are performing well in the national Primary Health Organisation Performance Programme (PPP). They are achieving higher results than the national average in 11 of the 19 indicators.

The PPP is an incentive driven, quality improvement programme.  It aims to support improvements in the health of populations and reduce inequalities through supporting clinical governance and continuous quality improvement processes with Primary Health Care Organisations (PHO) and their general practice teams.

PPP performance indicators measure how well general practice teams are delivering key services. Some indicators look at services accessed by all PHO-enrolled patients while other indicators look at services specifically accessed by Maori or Pacific Island people, or those living in lower socio-economic areas.

The indicators include; influenza vaccination, cervical screening,  childhood vaccinations, breast screening, cardiovascular disease detection, cardiovascular disease risk assessment, diabetes detection, diabetes follow up, recorded smoking status, GP laboratory expenditure, and GP pharmaceutical expenditure.

MidCentral DHB Senior Portfolio Manager of Primary Health Care, Craig Johnston, said: “The general practice teams in our region have achieved steady improvement in the indicators we measure.

“General practices have achieved locally agreed targets in all but one indicator – Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment. This indicator is the focus of significant work within the PHO. The positive results of the other indicators demonstrate that general practices have good support systems in place to achieve these.

“MidCentral DHB has, and continues to invest significantly in the PPP. Future work locally is likely to include programme implementation within an integrated family health centre, where members of the wider primary healthcare team can be utilised to better help improve the health of our population.”

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