The quest for integrated health and social care in Canterbury, New Zealand | INTEGRATED CARE CASE
Back in 2007, the Canterbury District Health Board in New Zealand's south island looked at the future and decided that if nothing changed it would, by 2020, need a hospital twice the size of the existing Christchurch Hospital, the region's key medical facility, plus 20 per cent more general practitioners and 40 per cent more residential care beds.
It set out to transform the way health and social care in the region worked, so that it would operate as 'one system, one budget', integrating care far better between the hospital, primary, community and social care sectors, with the aim that people would receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time and from the right person. Despite Christchurch being hit by a devastating earthquake in February 2011, Canterbury has made significant progress towards that goal.
The quest for integrated health and social care in Canterbury, New Zealand | INTEGRATED CARE CASE
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