With the proposed changes to the health system looking to take more of a localities and network management approach to
primary healthcare in the future, ProCare has today launched a new initiative and website called Reimagining Health as a another way of helping to ensure Tāmaki Makaurau is supporting new ways of working across communities and
providers to help achieve better health outcomes, support equity in health and prepare for the reforms coming into
effect.
This website aims to deliver providers and communities with information about the upcoming changes in the health system
around a localities approach and outlines how people can come together in order to best meet the healthcare needs of the
local community.
Bindi Norwell, Chief Executive at ProCare says: “We are really excited that this kaupapa calls on the healthcare sector
to do things differently through using more of a population health lens overlayed with wider factors that can impact on
health. There is an opportunity to improve the way care is delivered through localities and network management, and this
approach is aimed at improving the overall health and wellbeing of communities and whānau, while reducing the health
inequities we currently see across Tāmaki Makaurau.
“It is a holistic approach that considers the wider determinants of health, our health behaviours and lifestyles, an
integrated health and care system that can help support people and the communities we live in. Whānau will be at the
centre of localities through active participation between providers and communities so that care reflects what matters
to the people in the locality,” continues Norwell.
“By launching the Reimagining Health initiative and website, we hope to encourage more providers and communities to
think about the integration of care models and to explore the process we have outlined around how this can happen in
reality,” she continues.
“So far, there are a number of organisations that have already given their tautoko (support) to the vision and principle
of the localities approach as outlined on the partnerships page of the website. If there are other organisations,
localities or network management groups out there that would like to work with us, find out more about how the approach
could work or would be interested in ProCare working with their locality or network management group, we would encourage
them to get in touch,” concludes Norwell.Notes to Editors
The Reimagining Health website can be found at www.reimagininghealth.nzAbout ProCare - ProCare is New Zealand’s largest network of family doctors (GPs), nurses, general practice teams and healthcare
professionals providing community-based healthcare to more than 800,000 people across the greater Auckland region. As
New Zealand’s largest Primary Health Organisation we represent 167 practices serving the largest Pacific and South Asian
populations enrolled in general practice in New Zealand and the largest Māori population in Tāmaki Makaurau. For more
information go to www.procare.co.nz