Equity & Population Health Implementation Plan

Canterbury Māori Health Framwork

This symbolises an alignment with Whakamaua

This symbolises an alignment with Ola Manuia

Pegasus Health Equity & Population Health Strategy

Te Tukanga | A-Call-to Action

Through this Call-to-Action, Pegasus Health will centre activities where they will have the greatest impact, with a focus on achieving:

» Equitable outcomes across priority outcome areas

» Equitable access and outcomes across primary and community care services, and over time, expanding this focus to encompass equitable access to secondary care and social services.

He Tirohanga Whānui Strategic Focus

He Mahi Our Way of Working

Kotahitanga Collaboration

He Tāngata Our People

Embed equity across our strategic approach

Embed Te Tiriti o Waitangi and equity considerations throughout all key documents

Develop, implement and monitor our Māori Health Plan

Set equity targets across the organisation that are resourced and reported

Ensure equity is a focus for all people and parts of the organisation.

Ensure equity is reflected in all that we do

Use data and information to monitor, report and inform our equity approach

Prioritise providers, programmes and services that are pro-equity

Support a people-centred approach in primary and community care

Advocate for equity of health outcomes both locally and nationally

Develop and celebrate best practice for improving equity.

Work together to increase equitable health access and outcomes

Work with practices to ensure they provide equitable and accessible primary care

Support a more cohesive, connected and integrated health system

Prioritise our reference groups and advisory boards at every appropriate opportunity

Use a co-design approach to develop more responsive health services for priority communities

Establish and maintain meaningful relationships and partnerships with key communities including Mana Whenua.

Diversify and develop our workforce to reflect the community

Implement the Pegasus Health Diversity of Workforce Plan

Incorporate cultural safety and equity in professional development

Weave understandings of Te Ao Māori and Tikanga Māori into the organisation at all levels

Support and develop leaders and leadership opportunities

Strengthen relationships with Māori, Pacific peoples and other priority populations to be an employer of choice.

He Tirohanga Whānui Strategic Focus

He Tirohanga Whānui Strategic Focus

We will embed equity across our strategic approach. We ensure that equity is at the centre of all that we do.

Embed equity across our strategic approach

Embed Te Tiriti o Waitangi and equity considerations throughout all key documents

Develop, implement and monitor our Māori Health Plan

Set equity targets across the organisation that are resourced and reported

Ensure equity is a focus for all people and parts of the organisation.

Current example

Our strategic initiatives are aligned to the Pou from our Strategy’s Call to Action – SLT supported by PMO

Describe aspiration

The Pegasus Equity & Population Health Strategy strategically guides the organisation to increase equity in the heart of all we do

We strive for better every day

Whāia te iti kahurangi, ki te tuohu koe me he maunga teitei

Equity & Population Health Strategy Implementation Plan 2023

Strategic Outcome Objectives 2023

He Tirohanga

Whānui Strategic Focus

Embed Te Tiriti o Waitangi and equity considerations throughout all key documents.

Identify and incorporate consistent definitions of equity and Te Tiriti o Waitangi into all key documents and these are communicated by People Leaders.

Establish a position on Māori data sovereignty.

Evidenced by Lead

The number of strategies, frameworks, contracts and position descriptions, that are reviewed and embed consistent statements on equity and Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

A position on Māori data sovereignty is developed.

SLT, People Leaders

Develop, implement and monitor our Māori Health Plan.

Prioritise Hauora Māori through the Pegasus Health Māori Health Plan, which is aligned with Whakamaua and Te Pae Tata.

Pegasus Māori Health objectives are integrated into the Equity & Population Health Strategy Implementation Plan.

Director of Hauora Māori and Equity, Hauora Māori Manager

Set equity targets across the organisation that are resourced and reported.

Incorporate equity targets into every team or service to make them more equitable for Māori, Pacific and other priority group.

Number of teams with equity targets to meet the strategy.

SLT ELT People Leaders

Ensure equity is a focus for all people and parts of the organisation.

Establish and implement a mechanism for People Leaders to report on their team or service equity targets.

Reporting to the Pegasus Board through PHAB and SLT is embedded.

Pegasus Board SLT ELT People Leaders

PHAB

Embed equity across our strategic approach

He Mahi Our Way of Working

Ensure equity is reflected in all that we do

Use data and information to monitor, report and inform our equity approach

Prioritise providers, programmes and services that are pro-equity

Support a people-centred approach in primary and community care

Advocate for equity of health outcomes both locally and nationally

Develop and celebrate best practice for improving equity.

He Mahi

Our way of Working

Ensure equity is reflected in all that we do.

We act with integrity doing what is right

Current example

Cervical screening funding of priority groups to help close the equity gap.

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Describe aspiration

That cervical screening rates increase for priority groups

Māori, Pacific and Asian and the equity gap reduces.

Equity & Population Health Strategy Implementation Plan 2023

Strategic Outcome

Objectives 2023

He Mahi

Our Way of Working

Ensure equity is reflected in all that we do

Use data and information to monitor, report and inform our equity approach.

The Equity Dashboard (Hāmana) and other tools are finalised, socialised and utilised in targeted practices.

Evidenced by Lead

Dashboard of existing equity data including gender affirming care services and interpreter claims is finalised and shared with SLT and Boards.

Prioritise providers, programmes and services that are pro-equity.

The Resourcing Prioritisation Framework is developed and embedded into our resource decision making processes.

Number of priority partners and engagement levels with these partners. SLT

Support a people-centred approach in primary and community care.

Advocate for equity of health outcomes both locally and nationally.

Identification of priority populations, in addition to Māori and Pacific people.

Consumer positions sit on the advisory boards and provide advice to Pegasus.

Priority populations are identified and articulated.

Consumer positions are appointed with advice from the Canterbury reference groups and Pegasus advisory boards.

ELT Advisory Boards

Develop and celebrate best practice for improving equity.

Identify priority advocacy opportunities, apply advocacy criteria and write submissions.

The number and areas of advocacy. ELT

Identify and promote practices and pharmacies promoting equity.

The Communication Team develops a plan to develop more accessible information.

Number of communications promoting best practice.

Accessible Information Communications Plan developed.

Kotahitanga Collaboration

Kotahitanga Collaboration

Work together to increase equitable health access and outcomes

Work together to increase equitable health access and outcomes

Work with practices to ensure they provide equitable and accessible primary care

Support a more cohesive, connected and integrated health system

Prioritise our reference groups and advisory boards at every appropriate opportunity

Use a co-design approach to develop more responsive health services for priority communities

Establish and maintain meaningful relationships and partnerships with key communities including Mana Whenua.

We connect,

we

Current example

Working relationships with Te Puawaitanga ki Otautahi Trust and Tangata Atumotu to reach Māori and Pacific communities.

Describe aspiration

That Pegasus Health works in a way that is collaborative and inclusive, for the betterment of the populations we serve

together

succeed Nōu te rourou, nāku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi

Equity & Population Health Strategy Implementation Plan 2023

Strategic Outcome

Objectives 2023

Evidenced by Lead

Monitor and report on enrolment and priority population data quarterly.

Work with practices to ensure they provide equitable, culturally safe and accessible primary care.

General practice and pharmacy are supported to increase equitable access and engagement to primary care services.

Kotahitanga

Collaboration

Support a more cohesive, connected and integrated health system.

Strengthen organisational partnerships to develop a ‘whole-of-system’ approach to primary and community care with a focus on Māori and Pasifika providers. Increase access for priority partners to shared platforms eg: HealthOne and ERMS.

Equity data is reported to practices regularly, including Foundation Standards every 3 years.

Foundation Standards team

Work together to increase equitable health access and outcomes

Prioritise our Reference Groups and Advisory Boards at every appropriate opportunity.

Enable Canterbury reference groups and advisory boards to influence Pegasus activity.

Relationship map articulating key partnerships.

Number of priority partners on shared platforms

and Culture Team

Use a co-design approach to develop more responsive health services for priority communities.

Actively engage, listen and respond to the needs of communities in the development and evaluation of Pegasus services.

Clear pathway of influence established and known by the Canterbury reference groups and advisory boards.

Establish and maintain meaningful relationships and partnerships with key communities including Mana Whenua.

Meaningful relationships with community organisations and Mana Whenua are strengthened.

Relationships with priority partners are supported by Health Managers as appropriate.

Number of key stakeholder engagements. ELT

Growth in number and quality of relationships.

Service Managers work in collaboration with Health Managers, as appropriate, in contracting.

He Tāngata Our People

He Tāngata Our People

Diversify and develop our workforce to reflect the community.

Diversify and develop our workforce to reflect the community

Implement the Pegasus Health Diversity of Workforce Plan

Incorporate cultural safety and equity in professional development

Weave understandings of Te Ao Māori and Tikanga Māori into the organisation at all levels

Support and develop leaders and leadership opportunities

Strengthen relationships with Māori, Pacific peoples and other priority populations to be an employer of choice.

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Current example

Support of students in scholarships, internships and studentships to actively develop diversity of the health workforce.

Describe aspiration

That Pegasus Health prioritises diversifying the health workforce at every opportunity, and shows genuine commitment to providing culturally safe, clinically safe healthcare.

We are inclusive, every voice is important to us

aha te mea nui o te ao, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata

Equity & Population Health Strategy Implementation Plan 2023

Strategic Outcome

Develop and implement a workforce plan around diversity.

Objectives 2023

The People strategy champions equity through:

- Ensuring our recruitment processes engage and support Māori and Pacific recruitment

- Improve the quality of data about our workforce including ethnicity, language, gender and disability.

Evidenced by Lead

Recruitment processes and support resources are co-reviewed

People & Culture

Incorporate cultural safety and equity in professional development.

Learning and Development staff onboarding includes Te Tiriti o Waitangi, cultural safety and equity.

Tracking and reporting of Equity and Cultural Safety onboarding modules completed by staff and Advisory Board members.

People & Culture

Weave understandings of Te Ao Māori and Tikanga Māori into the organisation at all levels.

Diversify and develop our workforce to reflect the community

Support and develop leaders and leadership opportunities.

Commitment to Te Ao Māori continues to be demonstrated through mihi whakatau, karakia, waiata and te reo training, with additional opportunities identified.

Māori and Pacific caucus workforce development plans are implemented and supported.

Numbers of Pacific Leadership training and numbers of Māori and Pacific representatives on advisory groups is increased and maintained.

Strengthen relationships with Māori, Pacific peoples and other priority populations to be an employer of choice.

Existing workforce development programmes are further developed (student internships, student scholarships, NetP).

ELT

ELT CCN People

& Culture

People

& Culture

Our People