THINK Hauora Welcomes Dame Karen Poutasi To MidCentral Regional Hui

Together with local alliance partners, GPs and Iwi Māori
Partnership Board CEO, THINK Hauora PHO welcomed Dame Karen
Poutasi – Te Whatu Ora Board Chair, to a district hui,
showcasing partnership and collaboration in the MidCentral
rohe last week.

THINK
Hauora took the opportunity to reinforce the challenges
impacting local services including on-going workforce
shortages, nursing pay parity and capitation
funding.

Dame Poutasi was joined by Dr Sarah Clarke,
Te Whatu Ora National Clinical Director Primary and
Community Care and General Practice NZ Medical Director, Dr
Bryan Betty as part of a national road show to better
understand the health landscape across New
Zealand.

“THINK Hauora’s expanded governance
structure with 50/50 Iwi Board representation allows us to
be more responsive to the needs of our community,
underpinned by Pae Ora and a shared vision of connecting
communities for wellbeing across the rohe,” said Dr Bruce
Stewart,” – THINK Hauora Board Chair.

Supported by
THINK Hauora, alliance partners highlighted examples of
integrated care in response to community
need:

• THINK Hauora CEO – Amarjit Maxwell shared
  highlights of the network wānanga enhancing general
  practice to support health and wellbeing, bringing over 110
  cross sector kaimahi to share and learn
  together.
• Iwi Māori Partnership Board (IMPB) CEO
  Dan Arapere discussed how local health and wellbeing
  providers and the seven local Iwi are working closely to
  better meet the needs of the community.
• Local
  alliance partner Te Tihi o Ruahine Upoko Whakarae, Materoa
  Mar showcased on-going initiatives to support whānau into
  home ownership, resulting in better health
  outcomes.
• Sarah Fenwick – Group Director of
  Operations Te Whatu Ora MidCentral, discussed current
  challenges with patient flow and the programme of work that
  has been set up enable improvement noting the commitment
  between Hospital Specialist Services and THINK
  Hauora.

Guests then traveled to Kauri Health
Care in central Palmerston-North, to better understand what
integrated family health services looks like in a large,
agile and sustainable primary care setting.

More
information:

THINK Hauora is a Primary Health
Organisation (PHO) that provides primary healthcare services
to the North Island’s MidCentral region. This includes the
Manawatū, Horowhenua and Tararua localities,
Palmerston-North city and Kapiti
(Ōtaki).

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