Table 1 |
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NQPS key components |
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| Components and processes |
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| National Performance Indicators |
52 National indicators spanning government priorities |
| • Governance |
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| • Prevention and early intervention, |
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| • Access |
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| • Integration |
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| • Chronic disease management |
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| Compulsory reporting against a subset of national indicators and choice in reporting against local programs |
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| PIs underpinned by a conceptual framework and technical details 4 levels of indicators from processes through to client outcomes |
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| Accreditation |
Requirement for all Divisions to become accredited by June 2008 |
| Once accredited, Divisions no longer required to report on governance indicators |
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| Performance Assessment |
Performance against indicators is to feed into individual performance appraisal |
| At the national level, analysis and benchmarking support comparison and provide an aggregated picture of performance |
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| Links to rewards (still to be determined) to reward high performance and support improvement |
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Gardner et al. Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2008 5:8 doi:10.1186/1743-8462-5-8 |
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