Purpose

Reducing the impact of long term conditions is a priority for the New Zealand health system. Service funders and providers need to be more flexible, innovative and be able to measure the difference they are making for their populations. This high level approach is people/whānau focused, not disease specific.

The developed documents provide guidance for planning and commissioning LTC services and show the collective contribution from the whole of the health system towards achieving population outcomes:

• The National expectations for prevention and management of long term conditions services
• LTC Population Outcomes Framework - Line of Sight (Part A)’ and ‘Measures (Part B)

Implementation

We recommend the health sector moves towards using this population outcomes framework and selects appropriate measures from Part B that contribute to the desired service outcomes. There are no new reporting requirements. We have included measures and indicators that already exist in a number of plans or frameworks, such as health targets and system level measures as well as some aspirational measures.

These documents are published as working documents and we invite input for ongoing improvement and development.

The sponsor for this work is the Manager of the CVD Diabetes and Long Term Conditions team at the Ministry of Health. This team will be updating and maintaining these documents, and can be contacted at cvddiabetes@health.govt.nz. We look forward to working with you to develop and implement these documents.