2 March 2017
Antony Andrews
[FYI request #5474 email]
Dear Antony Andrews
On behalf of Gabriel Makhlouf, Secretary to the Treasury, I acknowledge receipt of
your letter requesting:
“Please refer to the official request made to Ministry of health.
https://fyi.org.nz/request/5272-efficiency-analysis-of-district-health-
boards?nocache=incoming-17277#incoming-17277
The reply from MOH suggest that there is no method as such used to analyze
efficiency of District Health Boards. As I understand, they are required to provide
services to their population with in their budgets.
I note that there was a Treasury paper in 2005,
http://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/informationreleases/health/sector/tr05-
344.pdf
I would like to know if Treasury has undertaken any more studies to do efficiency
analysis of District Health Boards by using any parametric or non-parametric
methods specially to look into efficiency of DHBs.
I am particular interested in knowing how if Treasury undertake analysis to
account for the resources/inputs (labour and capital) that each DHB uses.”
Your request was received by the Treasury on 1 March 2017 and will be dealt with in
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Yours sincerely
Lucy May
Lucy May
Ministerial Coordinator