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Bunbury
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Indigenous health |
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| General Practice Divisions of Western
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Extensive consultation and education
with Divisions and GPs (rural and metro)- "GPDWA Issues Paper"
written, outlining barriers to item implementation from GP perspective. |
General Practice
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Qualitative research study investigating
" Health consumer and health professional views regarding an
annual health assessment in the aged". |
Consumers |
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Member of the Royal Australian College
of GPs (RACGP) Steering Group, for the development of GP, Allied
Health and Consumer Guidelines, for the Sharing Health Care
component of EPC. |
Sharing Health Care |
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Member of the Western Australian Agency
Liaison Group (WAALG). |
Aged Care |
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Convenor - Hospital Working Party
to address issues associated with hospital discharge items. |
Hospitals |
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Scoping report "Barriers to implementation
of the hospital discharge care planning and case conferencing
items". |
Hospitals |
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Collaboratively developing a pilot
study proposal with the Hospital Liaison GP / St John of God
Hospital - Murdoch to identify working model for GPs to contribute
to discharge care plan ( item 728). |
Hospitals |
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Extensive consultation with Aboriginal
Medical Services (AMS) in rural and remote Western Australia,
including the Kimberley, Pilbara, Eastern Goldfields, Midwest
and Greater Bunbury Divisions of General Practice. Barriers
to implementation of the new items were addressed at each individual
AMS. |
Aboriginal health |
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Haematology Cancer Patient - Shared Care Project
- Patients who are part of this program are cared for by
both specialist and tertiary facilities as well as their
general practitioner. The pivotal aspect of the program
is a "patient held" health care record which is kept with
the patient throughout the period of their illness, and
which is taken with the patient to all medical appointments,
treatment appointments and during admissions to hospital.
The program is looking at using both hospital discharge
case conferencing items and community care planning items
to ensure the patient, GP, specialist and other multidisciplinary
team members are aware of unexpected hospital admissions,
communicating changes in management and treatments.
This program is investigating the implementation of telehealth
conferencing for those patients and their GPs living in
rural and remote locations.
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Haemotology Cancer
Patient
Shared Care
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Disability Services Commission
- Disability Services Commission (DSC) in WA is particularly
interested in implementing the community care plan items.
DSC believes there is significant scope to improve the delivery
of their services through the coordination of community
care plans through a DSC Local Area Coordinator (LAC). The
role of the LAC is to liaise between the patients, home
helpers and other health and community service providers
who assist disabled clients to remain living independently
in the community.
The new items now provide the scope for the DSC LAC to engage
the clients usual GP in the coordination of health care
delivery.
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Disability Services |
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Hospital School Services
- Hospital School Services provides an integral educational
service to students K - 12 currently located in the metropolitan
area for students who are homebound for medical reasons.
The service is able to do this by operating an off-site
outreach service comprising visiting teachers to work with
homebound students.
The service is hoping to actively organise and contribute
to community care plans for those children with chronic
and complex health problems and who have recurrent episodes
of hospitalisation or home care. Children with conditions
such as cystic fibrosis, asthma, haemophilia, diabetes,
arthritis and thalassaemia frequently require lengthy periods
of convalescence at home prior to returning to school these
children often require a multidisciplinary approach to community
care. The Hospital School Services believe they can play
an integral role and collaborative role in the holistic
delivery of care and this role can be enhanced through the
new MBS community care plan items.
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Youth Health |
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Alma Street and Peel South West, Mental Health Services
- Both Mental Health Services are actively working with
GPs in their respective Divisions to accommodate and implement
community case conference items. The Alma Street team currently
consists of the psychiatric liaison GP and mental health
nurse, who attend the GP surgery with the patient. Hence,
including the GP, a community team of three is in place
to assist a coordinated approach to patient care
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Mental Health |
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Key note presentation at Health Horizons
Conference - Developing Partnerships with GP. |
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Panel Discussion - Creating Partnerships
with GPs - 4th National Allied Health Conference. |
Allied Health |
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Contact: belinda.bailey@gpdwa.com.au
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keywords: General Practice, Consumers, Sharing Health
Care, Aged Care, Hospitals, Hospitals, Hospitals, Aboriginal
health, Haemotology Cancer, Patient, Shared Care, Disability
Services, Youth health, Mental health, Allied Health
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