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The current Tier one (2014) and Tier two (2016) service specifications on this page fulfil requirements under the Pae Ora Act for the PHA to specify public health programmes.1

These documents are overdue for review. However, in the interim and until they are reviewed/replaced they remain the PHA’s expectations of Te Whatu Ora for the commissioning and delivery of public health services and programmes. The PHA recognises the need for some flexibility in the interpretation and application of these service specifications in terms of commissioning and delivery of services considering the evolving nature of the public health system.

The PHA in partnership with Te Aka Whai Ora and in collaboration with Te Whatu ora will soon start a review of these documents.  

1 Section 14 (1) (i) of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022 states “the functions of Health New Zealand are to—… undertake and promote public health measures, including commissioning services to deliver public health programmes specified by the Public Health Agency.”)

Public health

Tier 1

Document link Status Purchase units Date of publication
Public Health Services (docx, 119.8 KB) Mandatory See service specification for list of purchase units 01 February 2014

Health assessment and surveillance

Tier 2

Document link Status Purchase units Date of publication
Health Assessment and Surveillance (docx, 469.31 KB) Mandatory RMASS20, RMASS21, RMASS22, RMASS30, RMASS32 15 August 2016

Health promotion

Tier 2

Document link Status Purchase units Date of publication
Health Promotion (docx, 326.12 KB) Mandatory RMPM20, RMPM21, RMPM22, RMPM23, RMPM27, RMPM28, RMPM30, RMPM31, RMPM32, RMPM34, RMPM35, RMPM36, RMPM37, RMPM38, RMPM40, RMPM341, RMPM42, RMPM43 18 August 2016

Health protection

Tier 2

Document link Status Purchase units Date of publication
Health Protection (docx, 578.89 KB) Mandatory RMPT20, RMPT21, RMPT22, RMPT30, RMPT31 15 August 2016

Preventive interventions

Tier 2

Document link Status Purchase units Date of publication
Preventive Interventions (docx, 378.38 KB) Mandatory RMINT32 15 August 2016

Tier 3

Document link Status Purchase units Date of publication
Stop Smoking Services (doc, 148.5 KB) Non-mandatory RMINT29, RMCAP29 17 June 2016
Immunisation In progress    

Public health capacity development

Tier 2

Document link Status Purchase units Date of publication
Public Health Capacity Development (docx, 371.05 KB) Mandatory RMCAP10, RMCAP11, RMCAP12, RMCAP20, RMCAP21, RMCAP22, RMCAP23, RMCAP27, RMCAP28, RMCAP29, RMCAP30, RMCAP31, RMCAP32, RMCAP33, RMCAP34, RMCAP35, RMCAP36, RMCAP37, RMCAP38, RMCAP40, RMCAP41, RMCAP42, RMCAP43 15 August 2016

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