Welcome to the ADHB
Healthy Communities, Quality Healthcare
is the vision for Auckland DHB. Our aim is to achieve the right mix
of services for the people of Auckland city while balancing the
needs of people who live outside our area and require our tertiary
services.
We have three organisation-wide goals and our most pressing is to
Lift the health of people in Auckland city. To achieve
this, we are using a whole-systems approach whereby internal
departments and external organisations are working in closer
cooperation to achieve a vital few health outcomes and keep our
community healthy, since we know a large proportion of our
hospitalisations are avoidable.
Our second goal, Lead performance improvement, summarises
our commitment to ensuring that all health and support services are
integrated and all decision-making is evidence and values-based.
This means challenging past practices and making sure current
decisions make the best use of resources for our population.
The goal also refers to our organisational health. We face the
challenge of recruiting and retaining staff in a competitive
international marketplace. We are working to ensure current staff
have the support they need, and prospective staff know that Auckland
DHB is a great place to work. We are a leading teaching hospital
with strong links to the University of Auckland, Auckland University
of Technology and Unitec, enabling us to build strong ties with the
future workforce.
Our third goal is to Live within our means. We receive over
$1 billion each year in funding. Although we have a large deficit,
we now understand the root causes of this much better and have plans
in place to help us live within our means. The deficit limits our
ability to expand services or invest in new areas. The deficit will
not prevent us from achieving improvements in the health status of
our local population. It means we have to be innovative and
understand what we need to prioritise now in order to get the
greatest gains into the future. In short, we have to do more with
the resources available to us.
I hope your visit will extend your knowledge of the Auckland
District Health Board and will assist you in getting the most
benefit from what we can offer.
Garry Smith
Chief Executive
The values of the
organisation
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Integrity |
We are open, fair, honest and transparent in
everything we do |
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Respect |
We care about and will be responsive to the needs
of our diverse people and communities |
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Innovation |
We will provide an environment where people can
challenge current processes and generate new ways of learning
and working |
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Effectiveness |
We will apply our learning and resources to
achieve better outcomes |
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NOVA for the latest ADHB news.
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For more information on the ADHB National conference on Tertiary
Services in Hospitals; Perspectives on Funding, Casemix and
Management, Please
Click Here.
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ADHB is calling for registrations of interest for funding of
2009 - 2010 health initiatives. To find out more
click here. To read the Prioritisation Process for Funding
document
click here.
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clinical services go to...
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