February Update Posted by Posted by Loren Savage on 28 February 2018 Posted on: 28 February 2018

Kia ora koutou,

The System Transformation team’s focus at the moment is on getting ready to seek decisions from Cabinet on the MidCentral prototype.

I am really excited about [that] we are getting Ministers together to talk about the prototype and it will be the first time we’ve got disabled people talking to [new] Ministers about the processes we have done to date, what is in the high-level design and what it will look like in practice. That’s taking a lot of our focus - is getting the Cabinet paper and getting ready for implementation of the prototype.

We are also starting to work on some of the new working groups. So in the next two weeks people will be receiving invitation for the working groups that are kicking off this year:

• the tax working group,
• the market shaping working group,
• the brand and identity,
• the Whānau Ora working group and,
• the one on social investment, which we are not still entirely sure exactly what we are going to call, but it is going to be more about early investment and what we can do to invest earlier in people’s lives.

We are also continuing to receive a lot of feedback from the virtual testing groups and will continue to consider that until the end of March. We are also about to go out for virtual testing on the outputs from two of the other working groups.  So, one is around what we originally talked about as the interface with Oranga Tamariki, but when we started to look at how government agencies work together around children, interactions did [not] just involve the disability support system and Oranga Tamariki.  They really needed to work with other people, particularly education in schools and the health system, but also there was a range of other government agencies who may be involved.  So the information that is going out for virtual testing will be looking at, how does government work together around children?

The other working group is the interface with Health.  So this is the disability support system and health and that information will be going out for virtual testing as well.

As I said before, we are still looking for feedback on virtual testing and we will be continuing to look for feedback up until the end of March.  So if you are interested in getting involved in one of the virtual testing groups, please contact us at STfeedback@moh.govt.nz

Thanks.

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