Synergia Services
Service performance
Synergia improves quality, process efficiency, and service value for money, within the context of complex, highly linked systems.
Service performance capabilities
- Service design
- Quality improvement systems and infrastructure design for multi-cultural contexts
- Integrating management service and clinical practice
- Dynamic simulation modelling
- Content expertise across many health service areas
- Business case analysis
Service performance experience
Evidence-based Guidelines for Obesity and Overweight
Description:
Synergia is leading the development of the implementation and training plan associated with the evidence-based guidelines developed by the Clinical Trials Research Unit. These clinical guidelines are for the management and treatment of obesity and overweight in children/youth and adults in New Zealand.
Contact: Paul Stephenson, Kim Arcus
Client: Ministry of Health
Home Haemodialysis Programme
Description:
Working with clinicians, patient representatives, and management to design and project manage a home haemodialysis training programme for people in Auckland and Waitemata district health boards.
Contact: Adrian Field
Client: Auckland District Health Board
Intervention Rate Analysis for Elective Procedures - Cataract, Hip and Knee Replacements
Description:
The level of cataract surgery and hip/knee replacements has been growing rapidly over the last few years, driven by aging populations, increasing prevalence of underlying disease states, better technology, increased acceptance and usage of surgery and funding changes. As part of an initiative to develop a long-term demand and capacity.
Contact: Philip Gandar, Linden Dale-Gandar
Client: Ministry of Health
Renal Service Design
Description:
This assignment focused on redesigning the current renal service in response to growing demand for in-centre dialysis services. The work used System Dynamics modelling to explore the drivers of renal demand and the clinical and financial outcomes of different design options.
Contact: David Rees
Client: MidCentral District Health Board
Optimising Clinical Inpatient Capacity
Description:
Philip Gandar and Ray Naden undertook a project on behalf of MidCentral Health to rethink issues of resource management and practice to address winter season capacity limitations and constraints on electives throughput.
Contact: Philip Gandar
Client: MidCentral District Health Board
Pacific Health Village Action Zone
Description:
Synergia is the key consultancy to support the design and operational management of the Healthy Village Action Zone Pacific church-centred community development initiative.
Contact: Paul Stephenson
Client: Auckland District Health Board
System Dynamics Modelling of Retinal Screening
Description:
This work was undertaken to develop a clearer understanding of the actual volumes involved in Retinal screening and subsequent clinics. The outputs of this work were used to negotiate additional contracted volumes with the Ministry of Health. In addition, the model was used to produce quarterly reports on budgeted versus actual volumes.
Contact: David Rees
Client: Counties Manukau District Health Board
Health Outcomes Team review
Description:
Review of health promotion team performance, focus, and structure. The review resulted in significant refocus and restructure of the service.
Contact: Paul Stephenson
Client: Auckland Regional Public Health Service
National Elective Services Project
Description:
Supported the initial implementation design development for the national elective services project that covered the five year period from 1998 – 2003.
Contact: Philip Gandar
Client: Ministry of Health
Differential Service Response
Description:
This assignment for CYF involved the development of a programme implementation model to guide the establishment of a radically different service configuration. The implementation model incorporated alternative investment strategies for the development of service capacity in agency, community and NGO coordination functions, allowing each part of the complex service system to understand the interaction between service capacity, capability development, service and infrastructure establishment and service delivery during a complex transition from one service model to another.
Contact: Philip Gandar
Client: Child,Youth, and Family
High and Complex Needs Unit
Description:
Synergia undertook a review of the functions of this intersectoral service then lead the implementation of changes both within the service, in respective Ministry policy and funding and with local collaboratives of agencies and NGOs.
Contact: Philip Gandar and Miles Shepheard
Client: Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education,