healthAlliance is the most significant shared services organisation providing services in the New Zealand Health sector today.
A millennium baby, the concept of healthAlliance was initiated in 1999 as a joint venture between Counties Manukau DHB and Waitemata DHB who now share ownership of the organisation.
The main reasons for creating healthAlliance were to reduce duplication and increase efficiency of key non clinical services across two of the largest DHBs in New Zealand through the sharing of ideas and systems.
Since its inception healthAlliance has reduced the back office costs for its shareholding DHBs from nearly 6.5% of provider arm revenue to 4.5% representing expenditure avoided of $20 million per year.
Sharing is more than centralising. Sharing delivers additional benefits to centralisation. Shared services are about dividing the costs, risks and rewards of joint ventures. Sharing enables different organisations to learn from each other and to achieve gains one organisation could not achieve by itself.
Through sharing, our customers and ourselves benefit from access to better quality products, find new resources more easily and spread the risk of loss.
The company employs 300 people delivering the following services:
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Statement of Intent
This document outlines the performance that will be delivered during 2009/10 by healthAlliance N.Z. Limited and contains non-financial and financial forecast information for 2010/11 and 2011/12 years.
Information for Suppliers
Outlines our terms of trade and process for submitting tenders
hA 2010 Report
As we approach our tenth anniversary, this report tells our story of what we are about and where we are going.