About this item

Issue date:
22 December 2022
Status:
Current
Corporate Author:
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora,
Document date:
8 December 2022
Type:
Report,
Topic:
Primary health care,
Location:
Auckland (East and South),
Copyright status:

© Crown Copyright, Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

ISBN:
978-1-99-116667-8

Ensuring that children are enrolled in primary care promptly is crucial for providing universal standard care, including immunisations. Typically, primary care providers receive a birth notification and pre-enrol the newborn with a “B enrolment” status for three months. If this status isn’t updated to “Enrolled” within three months, it expires in the National Enrolment System (NES).

This report highlights that the enrolment process isn’t systematically monitored, leading to gaps in both initial newborn enrolment and the completion of the enrolment process. These gaps can cause delays in care and contribute to the current low infant immunisation rates, which are inequitably distributed.

Suggested citation:
Chan WC, Papa D, Winnard D, Anderson P, Jackson G. Descriptive analyses of Primary Health Organisation (PHO) enrolment of Newborns, Auckland: Te Whatu Ora Counties Manukau; 2022.