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(2) Disability support services:

(3) Public health services (being services purchased for health protection and health promotion in the areas of):

(i) Social and physical environment : environmental health;

(ii) Social and physical environment : food, nutrition and physical activity;

(iii) Social and physical environment : prevention and control of communicable disease;

(iv) Maori;

(v) Children;

(vi) Young people;

(vii) Adults;

(viii) Older people.

The Northern Regional Health Authority should purchase public health services in a manner which enables the Director-General of Health to arrange for the performance of various public health regulatory services through designated officers.

5. By replacing the words:

“The Crown’s objective is for the Midland Regional Health Authority to improve the health status and promote the independence of the communities through the purchase of health and disability services, having regard to:”

with the words:

“The Crown’s objective is for the Midland Regional Health Authority to improve the health status, to improve, promote and protect the public health, and to promote the independence of people in the communities through the purchase of health and disability services, having regard to:”

2. By adding the following to the list of Health Gain Priority Areas:

“(4) Physical Environmental Health

by focusing on preventing and reducing health risks arising from environmental factors and on protecting the public from avoidable harm and illness”.

3. By replacing the paragraph dealing with the range of health and disability services to be purchased by the Midland Regional Health Authority with the following:

“In discharging the purpose it is the Crown’s objective that the Midland Regional Health Authority, in accordance with and to the extent enabled by its funding agreement, purchase or arrange for the purchase of the following health and disability services:

(1) Personal health services, being:

(i) Primary Care Services;

(ii) Pregnancy and Childbirth Services;

(iii) Dental Health Services;

(iv) Primary Diagnostic and Therapeutic Support Services;

(v) Secondary and Tertiary Medical Services;

(vi) Secondary and Tertiary Surgical Services;

(vii) Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Services;

(2) Disability support services;

(3) Public health services (being services purchased for health protection and health promotion in the areas of):

(i) Social and physical environment : environmental health;

(ii) Social and physical environment : food, nutrition and physical activity;

(iii) Social and physical environment : prevention and control of communicable disease;

(iv) Maori;

(v) Children;

(vi) Young people;

(vii) Adults;

(viii) Older people.

The Midland Regional Health Authority should purchase public health services in a manner which enables the Director-General of Health to arrange for the performance of various public health regulatory services through designated officers.”

5. By replacing the words:

“(2) target services, where appropriate, to particular individuals in relation to need. These target populations may be defined by a range of factors related to identifiable health and/or disability need; and”

with the words:

“(2) (i) in respect of Personal health services, target services, where appropriate, to particular individuals in relation to need. These target populations may be defined by a range of factors related to identifiable health and/or disability need; and

(ii) in respect of Public Health services, target services, where appropriate, to particular populations in relation to need. These target populations may be defined by geography, age, culture or a range of other factors related to identifiable health and/or disability need; and”

Dated at Wellington this 4th day of March 1996.

Hon. JENNY SHIPLEY, Minister of Health.

GO81813

Amendment to the Notice to the Midland Regional Health Authority of the Crown’s Objectives for Health and Disability Services

Background

A. On 4 July 1995, the Minister of Health gave notice, pursuant to section 8(1) of the Health and Disability Services Act 1993, to the Midland Regional Health Authority of the Crown’s Objectives for Health and Disability Services.

B. On 4 July 1995, the Minister of Health gave notice, pursuant to section 8(2) of the Health and Disability Services Act 1993, to the Public Health Commission of the Crown’s Objectives for Public Health Services.

C. On 22 January 1996 the Public Health Commission was abolished by the Health and Disability Services Amendment Act 1995.

D. The Crown wishes Regional Health Authorities to assume responsibility for the purchase of Public Health Services.

Now therefore, pursuant to section 8(4) of the Health and Disability Services Act 1993, I, Jennifer Mary Shipley, Minister of Health, hereby amend the notice given to the Midland Regional Health Authority on 4 July 1995 as follows:

1. By replacing the words:

“The Crown’s objective is for the Midland Regional Health Authority to improve the health status and promote the independence of the communities through the purchase of health and disability services, having regard to:”

with the words:

“The Crown’s objective is for the Midland Regional Health Authority to improve the health status, to improve, promote and protect the public health, and to promote the independence of people in the communities through the purchase of health and disability services, having regard to:”