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Health Integration Team

Connecting Northland through collaboration and change. This department aims to enable and lead change and innovation through integrated partnerships across the Northland health system.

The overall objective is to achieve wellbeing and equity through sustainable and integrated healthcare.

Health Integration Project Delivery Team

This team of Programme Managers, Project Managers and Project Support is focused on the delivery of a number of key programmes and projects. The team has extensive expertise in programme management, project management, change management and research and evaluation and work closely together to leverage off one anothers skills.

Northland Health Strategy

Northland’s new health strategy is currently under development, which will set the direction to improve the health of Northlanders and reduce inequities. Further information can be found here

Health Integration Projects

These projects aim to integrate the care of patients and their carers, particularly those with long term conditions and complex social care requirements, across primary, secondary and community-based health and social care services. The Health Integration Projects include five interlinked projects with goals that are related to workforce capacity and capability and service delivery re-design. Further information can be found here

Telehealth and Mobility Programme

Telehealth is the use of information and communication technologies to deliver health care when patients and care providers are not in the same physical location. In Northland this is predominantly via videoconferencing with simultaneous access to clinical information a key element in most areas of the service.

Telehealth enables increased access to specialist services and reduced travel time for clinicians and patients. It is utilised for outpatient clinics, linking our rural hospitals to Whangarei Hospital to assist urgent patient transfers, clinical team support, multi-disciplinary team support across primary, secondary and tertiary care and provides a platform for clinical education. We are growing our existing services, supporting improved integration with primary care, supporting services to clinical teams in the community and plan to expand services to patients in the home.

Videoconferencing is also used as an important communications tool for business (non-clinical) use and the support of remote working.

Mobility in the context of this programme is, the access to clinical information and data communications from mobile devices either within the hospital or in the community. In its relatively early stages at Northland DHB we are supporting our business teams in utilising this capability and working with our regional IT provider to establish the necessary platforms and technical environment.