You can use your strategic and business skills to plan health services, budget and allocate funding, monitor and evaluate service provision. Planners look at the health needs of the people within their region. They also examine the future challenges and opportunities a DHB may face in providing health care to the community. Service planners need to take into account the strategy of the DHB and the services they currently have in order to provide advice which is realistic and attainable.
This is a challenging, but rewarding role which will require you to gather large amounts of information so that you can develop a bigger picture of what is going on in the DHB and wider health system. With this information, you will be able to suggest strategies which will make your region’s health services more efficient.
