Access to planned care

Description

This measure details the rate of people who had surgery or care that was planned in advance, as a percentage of the agreed number of events in the delivery plan. Note that values greater than 100% are possible when interventions delivered exceed the agreed number from the plan. Timely access to planned care is important for the health, wellbeing and quality of life of New Zealanders and is seen as a marker of the quality of the public hospital system.

Measure set

Health system indicators

Notes about this measure set

Numerator

Count of inpatient and outpatient interventions from NMDS and NNPAC.

Numbers are extracted one month in arrears on the first Monday of each month.

Denominator

Number of planned care interventions agreed between districts and the Ministry as outlined in the Planned Care Funding Schedule.

Denominator detail

Selected interventions only: publicly funded elective or arranged admissions.

Denominator exclusions

Maternity purchase units for selected inpatient surgical discharges, minor procedures and non-surgical interventions.