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Health targets focus on:

  • Faster cancer treatment
  • Improved immunisation for children
  • Shorter stays in emergency departments
  • Shorter wait times for first specialist assessment
  • Shorter wait times for elective treatment

These five targets will support the delivery of better health outcomes for New Zealanders and help improve the performance of our health services across the country.

Health targets results

The results for Quarter Four 2024/25.

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Resources

Health targets - Factsheets

Health targets - 10 years of Quarter Four results

Health targets – Results by quarter (2020/21 – 2024/25)

Waitlist detail extract

Previous results

2024/25 - Quarter Three

2024/25 - Quarter Three

Health targets - 10 years of Quarter Three results

 

Health targets – Results by quarter (2020/21 – 2024/25)

 

Health targets - Factsheets

 

Data caveats

Improved immunisation for children

Data extraction occurred on 8 April 2025. This is consistent with the extraction date used for tier 1 statistics immunisation data, which occurs on the 8th of the month following the end of the quarter. While there is some backfill activity that occurs after the extract date, the impact on coverage rates is minimal.

All the following health targets

Last quarter, Auckland district implemented TrakCare, a new patient administration system, which has impacted data completeness for the following health targets. It will take some time for data completeness to improve, so results published for Auckland may show slight variations in future reporting, due to subsequent data being more complete.

Shorter stays in emergency departments

Four level-two facilities (not publicly funded) are excluded from this measure.

Faster cancer treatment

District results are accurate as populated in clinical systems.

Shorter wait times for first specialist assessment

We do not collect ethnicity data for FSA wait times.

Shorter wait times for elective treatment

Data issues were identified in the National Booking Reporting System (NBRS) for the Auckland district due to the change in patient administration system noted above, significantly impacting overall results. As such, Auckland data for this measure has been sourced from the RAPID data set, generally used for operational purposes. Issues with data in the NBRS are expected to be resolved for quarter four, at which point we will revert to using data sourced from the NBRS. The Auckland result is a close representation of the true waitlist that would be reported using NBRS, but results may shift slightly when the data source changes next quarter.

2024/25 - Quarter Two

2024/25 - Quarter Two

October to December

Health targets - 10 years of Quarter Two

 

Health targets - Factsheet by quarter

 

Health targets - One pagers

Data caveats

Improved immunisation for children

Improved immunisation for children

Data extraction occurred on 8 July 2025. This is consistent with the extraction date used for tier 1 statistics immunisation data (from quarter two 2024/25 onwards), where data is snapshotted on the 8th of the month following the end of the quarter. While there is some backfill activity that occurs after the extract date, the impact on coverage rates is minimal.

Shorter stays in emergency departments

Shorter stays in emergency departments

Northland district’s volumes for April 2025 are underreported but do not significantly impact their result. Four level-two facilities (not publicly funded) are excluded from this measure.

Faster cancer treatment

Faster cancer treatment

District results are accurate as populated in clinical systems. Results of 0.0 per cent (i.e. Pacific Peoples in Wairarapa) means no one in that population group met the 31-day timeframe from decision to treat, to treatment.

Shorter wait times for first specialist assessment

Shorter wait times for first specialist assessment

General medicine specialty was missing from West Coast results at the time of data extraction. Quarter four performance is expected to be around 70 per cent. Corrections are expected in the quarter one 2025/26 report.

We do not collect ethnicity data for FSA wait times.

Shorter wait times for elective treatment

Shorter wait times for elective treatment

At the time of data extraction, Waikato had known system issues which may have affected their data in the National Booking Reporting System and hence their results for this measure. Updated results are expected in the quarter one 2025/26 report.

Data clean up and validation has seen an improvement to the quarter four 2023/24 result (baseline). Yearly milestones were set based on realistic improvement from baseline (set at that point in time). This improvement has resulted in an increase to the 2025/26 milestone from 67 per cent to 70 per cent from August 2025 to ensure a steady trajectory to meet the 95 per cent target by 2030.

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