Health Care Financing: New Zealand's Healthcare System - Report

This report analyzes the healthcare financing system in New Zealand, focusing on the challenges and potential solutions to improve the funding of the public health sector. It highlights the role of the New Zealand government in financing the healthcare system and discusses the need for improved financing due to factors like rising healthcare needs and an increasing population. The report suggests improvements such as enhancing clinical leadership and fostering competition between public and private healthcare facilities. It also mentions the role of District Health Boards (DHBs) and the limitations of current funding models. The report concludes by emphasizing the need for better funding to address the evolving demands of the healthcare system and references the sources used in the analysis.

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Introduction
Most of the public medical system in New Zealand is financed by New Zealand
government via the health ministry. However, this funding is not able to subsidize
all the costs in health provision system thus calling for improved financing flow.
(lyndon keene, 2016)
How health care financing could be improved.
There are various justifications why the financing in the New Zealand health
department should be improved one of them being; rising needs for medical care
and increased population growth. Below are some suggestions on how funding in
the New Zealand health sector could be improved. (ZEALAND, 2016)
Firstly, clinical leadership should be improved; this is an alternate avenue for
accomplishing more improved cost efficiency. The prospective for this to be
achieved has been delayed by the embedded scarcity of medical experts, a matter
that is known among the Government’s medical workforce organization, Health
workforce New Zealand. Secondly, a more improved competition between public
medical facilities and private hospitals, to increase competition and burden-
sharing. (ZEALAND, 2016)
The government of New Zealand through the ministry of health assigns an
average of 75 per cent of its expenditure using vote health to DHB’s, which uses
these finances to operate, buy and offer medical care, comprising of public
medical facilities and the majority of public health provisions, within their
jurisdictions. (lyndon keene, 2016)However, this funding is not always enough to
cater fully for the public medical needs, due to; new and high-cost treatments, a
broadening income gap and other factors. The financing in the public medical care
system has also turned out to be unsustainable.

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References
Lyndon keene, p. b. (2016). funding New Zealnd public heakthcare system:time for a honest appraisal
and public debate. THE NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL JOURNAL.
ZEALAND, M. O. (2016, JULY 11). funding. Retrieved 2106, from HEALTH.GOVT.NZ.