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What is the DHB Planning Package?


What is the DHB Planning Package used for?
The Ministry produces the DHB Planning Package annually in December for the following financial year to assist the DHBs to produce their Annual Plans and Statement of Intent (DHB Accountability documents).

There are two components to the DHB Planning Package:
1. Planning Guidelines that explain the legislative requirements
2. Policy Requirements that set consistent and nationwide policy requirements.
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What is in the Planning Guidelines component?
The Planning Guidelines component includes guidelines for:

Regional Strategic Plan (RSP)
The RSP is a 5-10 year strategic plan for setting and responding to local health priorities.
All DHBs must review their current RSP at least once every 3 years.

Annual Plan with Statement of Intent (SOI)
As of 2011/12 all DHBs must produce an Annual Plan with Statement of Intent that sets out the DHBs' planned performance for the financial year. Previously two distinct documents, they are now written as one with the complete Annual Plan providing accountability directly to the Minister of Health. The Statement of Intent component of the Annual Plan is extracted and tabled in the House of Representatives to provide accountability to Parliament and the public.

Production Schedule
Accompanies the Annual Plan guidelines. The Production Schedule is an agreed plan between a DHB's Funder and Provider arms specifying forecast service volumes, and prices paid from devolved funding.
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What is in the Policy Requirements component?
The Policy Requirements component includes policy requirements for:

Operational Policy Framework (OPF)
The OPF is a schedule to the Crown Funding Agreement, and is a set of business rules and policy guidelines by which all the DHBs must operate.

Service Coverage Schedule (SCS)
The SCS is another schedule to the Crown Funding Agreement that sets the minimum levels of service coverage a DHB and the Ministry must provide (or arrange to be provided) to their population.

Reporting requirements
Reporting requirements cover three areas:
· health targets - performance in six key areas of population health
· indicators of DHB performance (IDPs) - performance in approximately 20 areas of wider DHB performance
· additional reporting requirements - self-reported progress updates or evaluations in areas of wider DHB performance

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