Our recommendations

We recommend that the Ministry of Health:

1. review its measures to ensure that they are complete and that it can assess progress toward all of the goals in the Primary Health Care Strategy’s vision statement for the next three years;
2. regularly produce consolidated reports – the first by 30 June 2009 – about progress toward the Primary Health Care Strategy’s goals and summarise how the information collected is being used to ensure that the Strategy will be successful;
3. ensure that performance reports about the primary health organisations that have been in the Primary Health Organisation Performance Programme for more than 15 months are promptly written and published;
4. work with district health boards and primary health organisations to review, by 30 June 2009, the Primary Health Organisation Performance Programme so that performance results are published once primary health organisations are eligible for performance payments; and
5. require and provide plain English reports about the Primary Health Care Strategy.