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2024
NZPSHA Position Paper
Published December 2023 – Posted Feb 2024
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.
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.
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.
2023
Forté wins prestigious health industry award for diabetes initiative
4 April 2023
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.
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.
2021
Prestigious health industry awards announced
18 March 2021
Christchurch’s Forte Health hospital has won a prestigious health industry award for its efforts to ‘improve the paediatric experience’ for patients.
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’.