What the Primary and Community Care Strategy and Action Plan means for specialist services

Primary and community care services are changing and growing to meet population needs and expectations, particularly the call from our communities for better integrated services.

We believe this will benefit all parts of the Southern health system, including the public hospitals. We will set out the DHB and PHO’s Primary and Community Care Action Plan for this and coming years, how we are working with secondary services, and how we need your help: our ability to implement the Action Plan will depend on whether we are bold enough and prepared to do things differently and make challenging decisions around our practices and priorities.

Presented by: Dr Nigel Millar, Chief Medical Officer, Southern DHB
and Dr Doug Hill Chair, WellSouth PHO and GP, at Broadway Medical Centre, Dunedin.

This presentation was held as a Dunedin School of Medicine Grand Round in Association with the Southern District Health Board.