Redesign of breast and cervical cancer screening support services

The NSU is planning to redesign contracts for these support services. The goal is to help improve priority women’s participation in breast and cervical screening.

This redesign follows a review about how to improve the current service model to provide the best support for priority women. As part of this review, there has been significant stakeholder engagement through regional meetings held throughout New Zealand earlier this year and via written submissions.

The NSU is keen to develop a new model for service delivery that will ensure excellent quality support and will promote collaboration, integration and successful uptake of screening services by priority women. Future contracts will have more focus on measuring outcomes and appropriate and consistent reporting.

The NSU will work closely with the sector to look at ways of redesigning services with a focus on flexibility to achieve the desired results.

Current contracts will be extended until 31 October 2016, with new purchasing and funding arrangements implemented from 1 November 2016. The implementation of new contracts will be supported by further training and information where needed.

A paper summarising the consultation and feedback can be found here.