PRIMHD NGO User Group

This has been established with these terms of reference.

The group is accountable to the Ministry of Health PRIMHD Executive Steering Group. There will be representatives from NGO regional governance groups and regional coordinators.

The PRIMHD NGO User Group exists to support a collaborative and coherent implementation of PRIMHD as it is extended to include contracted NGO mental health and addiction providers and to present a user perspective on implementation future benchmarking and use of data.

Definition of scope for NGO provider inclusion in PRIMHD

The scope of PRIMHD includes all contracted mental health and addiction NGO providers that provide direct support and treatment services to consumers and that report data using the service user’s unique NHI (National Health Index) number. The exceptions are as follows:

Aged care residential providers with three or less (<3) mental health and addiction
residents
Consumer and family/whanau organisations that are not contracted to provide data
using the health care user’s unique NHI (National Health Index) number

NB: Any NGO that is not currently contracted to provide PRIMHD data using the unique
NHI may still elect to voluntarily ‘opt in’ as long their PRIMHD reporting complies with the
data standards established by the Health Information Standards Organisation (HISO).

Additional notes relating to scope definition:

The scope definition detailed above does not revoke the accountability of the DHB
funder and planner for making the final decision whether a NGO services is excluded
from reporting to PRIMHD.
Reporting to PRIMHD does not replace the contractual obligations of all providers to
report information to Sector Services (formerly known as HealthPAC), Ministry of
Health.
Please note that the NGO services that are considered out-of-scope mostly include
some consumer and family/whanau programmes where it is not practical, or
desirable, to report service activity on the basis of the consumer NHI.