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2025
NZPSHA announces new Chief Executive
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14 May 2025
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Chris Roberts has been appointed Chief Executive of the New Zealand Private Surgical Hospitals Association (NZPSHA) in what the organisation says is a pivotal time to forge closer private-public partnerships across the health sector.
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Announcing the appointment today, NZPSHA President Blair Roxborough said that as the New Zealand health system continues to face unprecedented demand for services and, as the population ages, strong leadership and new thinking was required.​
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2024
New MoU between NZPSHA and MCNZ
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7 November 2024
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An updated Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between the New Zealand Private Surgical Hospitals Association (NZPSHA) and Te Kaunihera Rata o Aotearoa | Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ).
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The MoU has been revised over the course of this year to ensure its currency and has had legal review. All members including those who are already signatories to the preceding MoU (established in 2014) are encouraged to sign as participants in the new MoU.
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The revised MoU enhances the process for clear and open exchange of information about credentialed doctors in our member hospitals with the MCNZ. The MoU allows each participating member hospital and the Council to clearly define their roles with respect to management of any competence, performance, conduct or health issues. Under the MoU, member hospitals can liaise closely with MCNZ when concerns about a credentialed doctor are identified.
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NZPSHA Position Paper
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October 2024
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Private surgical hospitals can support Government to reduce growing pressure on the public health system. In partnership, we can provide joint public-private solutions to the ever-growing financial and capacity constraint pressures.
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Whole-of-sector approaches can work well as was demonstrated effectively during the COVID-19 response in early 2020. NZPSHA hospitals are an additional resource with the relevant capability to work effectively alongside the challenged public health sector. The private sector can also bring capital to the New Zealand health system, ensuring facilities are available without impacting Government funds to provide them.
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We seek to take a whole-of-sector approach to workforce development and training by utilising the expertise of private surgical hospitals as a skilled training resource.
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2023
Forté wins prestigious health industry award for diabetes initiative
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4 April 2023
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Forté has again taken out one of the top titles at the 'Leaders in Quality' Awards for its shared-care initiative for patients with diabetes.
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The awards, run by the New Zealand Private Surgical Hospitals Association, were announced at a gala dinner on Tuesday 16 March. Forté won the clinical category of the Awards for its development and implementation of a shared-care, patient-centred approach to diabetes management. It's the second time Forté has won the 'Leaders in Quality' Award, first receiving it in 2021 for its paediatric initiatives.
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2021
Prestigious health industry awards announced
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18 March 2021
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Christchurch’s Forte Health hospital has won a prestigious health industry award for its efforts to ‘improve the paediatric experience’ for patients.
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Forte’s entry won the clinical category of the NZ Private Surgical Hospitals Association’s Leaders in Quality Awards 2021.
The project was one of three finalists in the awards’ clinical category, with the judges lauding it as ‘a great concept, and fantastic from start to finish. It has so many useful elements ... and it has exceeded my expectations’.
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