Integrated Healthcare Trust

Integrated Healthcare Trust is a proposed entity to provide ‘emergency department’ healthcare services to Franklin/South Auckland. This Healthcare Trust would raise funds to help provide these healthcare services on a local level and ensuring a healthy and equitable community. The Trust would be an open structure that would regularly inform the community about its services, financial position and missions. The Trust board would be comprised of people dedicated to the health of the local community

In New Zealand, emergency department services have only been provided in the public hospitals. There are no funding streams for emergency services to be provided outside of the public hospitals. Integrated Healthcare Trust would raise funds and solicit donations/fees at an Urgent Care/Emergency Department to help ensure the health of the community.

If you would be interested in donating money, please use the email contact to request information. If there is enough interest from the Franklin community, then the Trust will be established and money requested.

If you are a doctor, nurse, healthcare assistant or person otherwise interested in helping set up the Trust or assist in providing medical services, please send your CV and specific interests to integratedhealthcare@xtra.co.nz.

Thank you for your interest

Summary and Goals to establish Health Trust and EM/Urgent Care

South Auckland’s healthcare is provided via private GPs, urgent care clinics (under the new Urgent Care Standard 2015 (UCS)) and the Counties Manukau DHB (CMDHB0. Franklin had been severe by an urgent care run by Pukekohe Family Healthcare (PFHC) but gave up running that clinic due to continued staffing pressures in maintaining the GP service to its enrolled patients. Since that time, acute care services have been provided by Urgent Care-Franklin (UCF), but South Auckland would still benefit from ‘emergency’ level care provided locally so that Middlemore Hospital could be off-loaded (35-50K visits per year) and patient time saved by not having to drive to Otahuhu or time spent waiting for the doctors in the emergency department (cases managed by acuity as would be expected)

Immediate goals:

  1. Establish if the Franklin/South Auckland community would support a health trust to provide healthcare services to the community
  2. Once the health trust is established, ensure that both doctors and nurses are available and interested in staffing the EM/Urgent care
  3. Meet the Urgent Care Standard and be recognised as an urgent care centre
  4. Negotiate with PFHC about temporarily utilising the West St site of the old Urgent Care as only site currently available that would meet the UCS requirements
  5. Further develop relationships with MMH to encourage close relationship with the Emergency Services and other healthcare services

Medical Services:

  1. Initially focus will be on provision of urgent care/acute presentations but hope is to expand services quickly to provide coverage that would permit sedation, recovery, reduction of fractures, etc.
  2. All GP services that have patients receiving care will be encouraged to provide access to medical records to maintain continuity of care
  3. Unless the patient specifically opts out, their treatment notes will not only be provided to their doctor but uploaded onto Testsafe to allow access by any other treating institutions (possibly build a community database but has practical implications-daily build (unlikely), weekly, or monthly (possibly missing most recent information)