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Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022

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46: Rural Health Strategy

You could also call this:

"A plan to improve health care for people living in rural areas"

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The Minister has to make a plan called the Rural Health Strategy. You will use this plan to help health organisations improve health outcomes for people living in rural areas. The plan must look at the current health of people in rural areas and how well the health sector is working for them. The plan also needs to think about what will happen to the health of rural communities in the medium and long term. It must set priorities for health services and improvements, including training for health workers. This is not a complete list, and other things can be included in the plan. The Rural Health Strategy is like a framework to guide health entities. You can use it to make sure rural communities get the best health care possible. The Minister is in charge of making this plan happen.

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Part 2Key roles and health documents
Key health documents: Health strategies

46Rural Health Strategy

  1. The Minister must prepare and determine a Rural Health Strategy.

  2. The purpose of the Rural Health Strategy is to provide a framework to guide health entities in improving health outcomes for rural communities.

  3. The Rural Health Strategy must—

  4. contain an assessment of the current state of health outcomes of people in rural areas and the performance of the health sector in relation to rural communities; and
    1. contain an assessment of the medium and long-term trends that will affect the health of rural communities and health sector performance; and
      1. set out priorities for services and health sector improvements relating to the health of rural communities, including workforce development.

        1. Subsection (3) does not limit what may be included in the Rural Health Strategy.