Between May 2008 and January 2009, the Ministry of Health Elective Services programme funded 14 diagnostic pilots at 10 District Health Boards around New Zealand. The Ministry of Health published a document that briefly summarises each of the pilots, ‘A summary of the Improving Patient Pathways – Diagnostic Pilots.’ Sapere Research Group (LECG Asia Pacific) evaluated these pilots with the following purposes:\

• Whether The improvement processes implemented in the pilots were cost effective and provided value for money; and
• Whether the improved processes introduced in the pilots should be considered for adoption by District Health Boards when improving primary care access to diagnostics.

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