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A list of the reports, articles, and presentations produced by the Office of the Auditor-General that discuss public entities in the health sector or health-related topics.
- Summary of our fraud survey results for district health boards
- April 2012: Cleanest public sector in the world: Keeping fraud at bay.
- Health sector: Results of the 2010/11 audits
- March 2012: ISBN 978-0-478-38340-9 (print), ISBN 978-0-478-38341-6 (online).
- New Zealand Blood Service: Managing the safety and supply of blood products
- February 2012: We carried out a performance audit that found that the Blood Service effectively supplies safe blood and blood products to patients in our health system...
- Home-based support services for older people
- July 2011: We carried out a performance audit to establish how effective the Ministry of Health and district health boards are in ensuring that, where appropriate, people aged 65 and over (older people) get the care and support they need to remain living independently at home...
- Progress in delivering publicly funded scheduled services to patients
- June 2011: This report assesses progress made in achieving the government strategy "Reduced Waiting Times for Public Hospital Elective Services". There has been good progress over 10 years but there is more to do to ensure that patients are assessed in a nationally consistent way, and seen and treated in priority order...
- Part 3: Results of district health board audits
- Central government: Results of the 2009/10 audits (Volume 2).
- District Health Boards: Learning from 2010–2013 Statements of Intent
- February 2011: This document has been written to help district health boards (DHBs) as they prepare their 2011-14 and future Statements of Intent (SOIs)...
- Effectiveness of the Get Checked diabetes programme
- September 2010: This document has been prepared to help district health boards (DHBs) further improve the effectiveness of the Get Checked diabetes programme...
- Spending on supplies and services by district health boards: Learning from examples
- September 2010: This report provides examples of good practice that we encourage, and some examples of poor practice, to help DHBs improve their own spending on supplies and services from external suppliers and providers...
- District health boards: Availability and accessibility of after-hours services
- September 2010: All DHBs have after-hours services available for 95% of the population within 60 minutes' travel time. That said, most DHBs' plans could better consider affordability and transport barriers and the risks to those after-hours services continuing...
- Part 7: Service performance information of district health boards – the accountability framework
- Central government: Results of the 2008/09 audits.
- Part 6: Results of district health board audits for 2008/09
- Central government: Results of the 2008/09 audits.
- Effectiveness of arrangements to check the standard of services provided by rest homes
- December 2009: The Ministry is actively trying to address shortcomings in the effectiveness of rest home auditing and certification arrangements. However, more work remains to be done and it is still too early to tell whether the efforts to make the current arrangements work as intended will make a difference or whether certification is fundamentally unable to do what the legislation envisaged...
- Ministry of Health: Monitoring the progress of the Primary Health Care Strategy
- October 2008: We audited how the Ministry of Health has monitored progress toward the Primary Health Care Strategy’s goals. Overall, the Ministry needs to review its measures to ensure that it can assess progress toward all of the goals in the Strategy’s vision statement...
- The Accident Compensation Corporation's leadership in the implementation of the national falls prevention strategy
- June 2008: The Accident Compensation Corporation has carried out useful work leading the strategy, but progress has been uneven. We identified two matters for ACC's immediate attention - its leadership mandate and the evaluation framework...
- Mental health services for prisoners
- March 2008: We conducted a performance audit that focused on the effectiveness of the agencies' systems for delivering mental health services to sentenced and remand prisoners...
- Management of conflicts of interest in the three Auckland District Health Boards
- November 2007: We looked at how conflicts of interest are dealt with in each of the three Auckland District Health Boards (the Auckland DHB, the Counties Manukau DHB, and the Waitemata DHB)...
- Ministry of Health and district health boards: Effectiveness of the "Get Checked" diabetes programme
- June 2007: In order to make the programme more effective, improvements need to be made to the quality of programme data and how the data is used. Better use can be made of the data to inform the provision of diabetes care at primary and secondary care levels...
- Allocation of the 2002-05 Health Funding Package
- October 2006: We undertook this audit to provide Parliament with a better understanding of where the Health Funding Package had been allocated between 2002 and 2005. The Ministry of Health had good documentation to support decisions on allocating the package. However, it is not possible to say from this audit how the Health Funding Package was ultimately spent, because district health boards, and many Ministry directorates, did not keep separate records of Health Funding Package funds...
- Progress with priorities for health information management and information technology
- March 2006: In 2001, the WAVE Report brought together the health sector's recommendations for making more effective use of health information. The WAVE Report envisaged rapid change in 3 to 5 years. We looked at the progress made by the Ministry of Health, District Health Boards, and the health sector...
