Linkages of the standards to health sector documents, collections and systems. To ensure national consistency in counting, funding, planning of health and disability services, pricing and data collection, the standards are linked with the following documents, collections and systems. Document/Collection/ System Nature of Linkage Accountabilities Document link Common Costing Standards Outlines nationally agreed costing standards for the costing of DHB health and disability services. The Counting Standards and service definitions are aligned with costing and appropriate allocation of funding to the sector Common Chart of Accounts (CCoA) A nationally consistent coding system for recording financial transactions of health and disability services by DHBs and the Ministry. Each PUC is linked to a General Ledger (GL) code. Ensure through the purchase unit co-ordinator and the Monitoring team that PUCs are updated and properly linked to GL codes. (updated for each financial year) New Zealand Casemix Framework for Publicly Funded Hospitals Provides definitions for inclusion of hospital events in Casemix funding related to the calculation of cost weights and assignment of these events to PUCs. Also the Counting Standards are aligned with Casemix exclusions and funding for hospital events. Ensure through the purchase unit co-ordinator, the Ministry and DHBs that Standards and PUC definitions are aligned with Casemix funding. (published on the Ministry’s website) Purchase Unit Data Dictionary (PUDD) The Counting Standards ensure that appropriate definitions are allocated to PUCs in the PUDD, and enables to use the PUDD in a consistent basis for costing and service planning. Ensure through the purchase unit co-ordinator, with technical advice from CCTAG and the sector, that Standards are applied throughout the PUDD. (The PUDD gets updated at least twice yearly)
Guide to Purchase Units and Purchase Unit Data Dictionary and Purchase Unit Request Template The guide is to assist users when requesting new PUCs or proposing changes to existing PUCs in line with the agreed Standards and definitions. Ensure through the purchase unit co-ordinator, with technical advice and consultation from CCTAG, that new PUCs or changes to existing PUCs are appropriate and aligned with agreed Standards National Minimum Dataset (NMDS) – data dictionary of National Collections Linking inpatient PUCs into NMDS through the data dictionary to ensure consistent and accurate data collection of inpatient events Ensure that PUCs capturing inpatient event level data are aligned with the Counting Standards and NMDS Data Dictionary definitions National Non-admitted Patient Collection (NNPAC) Data Mart of National Collections Linking outpatient PUCs into NNPAC to ensure consistent and accurate data collection of outpatient non-admitted patient events. Ensure through the purchase unit co-ordinator and the Ministry’s National Collections team that PUCs capturing outpatient event level data are aligned with the Counting Standards and NNPAC Data Dictionary definitions. Programme for the Integration of Mental Health Data (PRIMHD) Linking Mental Health and Specialist Addiction PUCs into PRIMHD to ensure consistent and accurate data collection of level Mental Health and Specialist Addiction Services Ensure through the purchase unit co-ordinator that Mental Health and Specialist Addiction PUCs in the data dictionary are aligned with PRIMHD data definitions for capturing data, Standards and Purchase Unit allocation process. (includes definitions and reporting requirements in the Reference Material section) Contract Management System () and Client Claims Processing System (CCPS) (for contracting purposes and PUCs linkages) All PUCs, active and inactive are contained in CMS. Ensure that all PUCs in are aligned and content is linked with the PUDD through Sector Operations and the purchase unit co-ordinator.