Assessing health care planning – A framework-led comparison of Germany and New Zealand

With markets and competition dominating much of the debate on health care reform, health care planning has received little scholarly attention in recent years. Yet in many high-income countries, governments have continued to plan some elements of their health care systems. We use a new framework for analysing health care planning organised around the dimensions of ‘vision’, ‘governance’ and ‘intelligence’ to assess the approach in two deliberately contrasting countries, Germany and New Zealand.