Health targets performance

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 target results

The results for Quarter Three 2024/25.

Resources

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.

Previous results

2024/25 - Quarter Two

October to December

Health targets - 10 years of Quarter Two

Health targets - Factsheet by quarter

Health targets - One pagers

2024/25 - Quarter One

July-September

Health targets - 10 years of Quarter One