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Overview of the Implementation Plan 2005/08 Key areas for implementation Implementation Plan 2004/05

Overview of Implementation Plan 2005/08

The plan covers the next three years of injury prevention activity and builds on the gains made during the 2004/05 implementation phase.

• The Implementation Plan outlines a programme of activities and actions for the 2005/08 period that will help achieve the Strategy's vision, goals and objectives.
• Key areas for implementation are identified together with process descriptions and impact measures.
• Examples of current or planned injury prevention initiatives are included to demonstrate the type of activity that supports achievement of each of the Strategy's objectives.
• Decision making processes, roles and responsibilities of stakeholders and the Strategy's three advisory groups, plus accountability mechanisms are described.

You can download a PDF version of the Implementation Plan in colour (PDF 631 KB) or black and white (PDF 573 KB).

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Key areas for implementation

As work has progressed during the first year of implementing the Strategy key areas were identified that will require sustained action if the Strategy's goals and vision are to be realised. The current Implementation Plan therefore focuses on certain key areas for action. These are listed with examples of outcome measures that will be used to track progress with these focus areas:

• Raise awareness of the burden and preventability of injury to achieve commitment to injury prevention activities, and affirm the role of the Strategy as a framework in achieving this awareness.
• Improve the skills across the injury prevention, community safety and injury prevention research workforce, through the advancement of training and career development pathways.
• Support the development of safe environments, systems and products including the dissemination of information on the same.
• Strengthen and support effective injury prevention activity at the community level.
• Maintain reductions in injury fatality rates and lower the rate of serious injuries.
• Support and monitor the development and delivery of the implementation actions of the strategies for the six national injury prevention priority areas, as well as the development of and measurement against relevant indicators.
• Reduce the risk of alcohol-related injury and encourage inter-agency collaboration on alcohol-related injury prevention projects.

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New Zealand Injury Prevention Strategy Implementation Plan 2004/05

The first Implementation Plan for NZIPS was launched in October 2003 by the Minister for ACC, Hon Ruth Dyson. This plan was from the period of 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005 and has been superseded by the NZIPS 2005/08 Implementation Plan above.

You can download a PDF version of the 2004/05 Implementation Plan in colour (PDF 1.6 MB) or black and white (PDF 1.1 MB).

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National Falls Prevention Strategy Implementation Plan development

Throughout 2006 ACC worked with a wide range of agencies to develop a five-year Implementation plan for falls prevention. The five-year plan supports the New Zealand Injury Prevention Strategy and the National Falls Prevention Strategy frameworks. The plan was approved by Cabinet last December and released March 9th, 2007. Both a PDF version and a searchable web-based version of the plan are available through the Falls Strategy  website.

The Implementation plan will assist in co-ordinating and guiding the increasing levels of falls prevention activities nationwide. The plan also aims to assist the National Falls Prevention Strategy in achieving its goals, i.e.to:

• reduce the incidence and severity of injury from falls
• reduce the social, psychological and economic impact of fall-related injuries on individuals, families/whanau and the community.

Falls Reality

Falls are of particular concern to ACC.

• In the 2005-06 financial year, accepted falls claims accounted for 37% of ACC’s total claims volume and 33% of the total cost to the Scheme.
• For the past three years ACC has accepted more than 500,000 new claims for falls each year; and the cost of new and ongoing claims was over $600 million for each of these years.
• The fatality rate from falls is also high, at 21% of unintentional injury-related deaths.
• Falls also account for 43% of injury-related hospitalisations each year.

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