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General Practice Divisions Victoria
GPDV's program on mental health provides targeted support to Victorian Divisions on Primary Mental Health Care issues, as a part of the National Mental Health Strategy. The program provides one-to-one support, workshops, updates, and resources to all Divisions to enable them to support GPs in primary mental health care. The program also involves liaisons with mental health services to enable better linkages between specialist services and GPs, and shared with the RACGP and RCPANZ the organisation of the recent Psychiatry Shared Care Forum. GPDV resources a Mental Health Reference Group, six GPs with special interest and expertise in mental health. The reference group provides strategic advice to both GPDV and external organisations. This program has already successfully provided policy input to the Victorian DHS and other organisations and created a formal Network of divisional staff working in mental health.-
Information TechnologyThe IT/IM Training and Support Consultant provides education and support to Divisions, as well as liaising with a wide range of other stakeholders, with the goal of increasing the effective computerisation of general practices in Victoria. The program provides a range of activities and services to divisions, including running regular education workshops and network meetings, producing a wide range of web-based resources, and disseminating resources produced by individual divisions and other organisations. The IT/IM Training and Support Consultant facilitates an IT Officers Network, and serves on a variety of committees, as well as offering individual help to divisions with program planning and specific technical and educational issues. This role is also responsible for the technical implementation of GPDV's General Practice Registry database of GP contacts. The IT program has successfully fostered a sense of unity of purpose amongst divisional IT staff, created concrete links between GP divisions and other government agencies and industry concerned with IT, and achieved an ongoing increase in the rates of GPs using IT effectively.
Primary Health Care IntegrationGPDV's Primary Health Care Consultant, provides knowledge and expertise to support divisions' active participation in the integration of general practice into the state-based primary health care system, particularly the creation of the new Primary Care Partnerships. The role requires liaison between divisions and the Victorian Department of Human Services, and the Commonwealth Department of Health & Aged Care. The program also provides individual support to divisions, particularly on their involvement in PCPs, and produces workshops and resources for divisional staff. This program has created direct links between GPDV and Victorian Health Department staff and has enabled divisions to develop links with the Department's Regional Offices and with other local service providers, including local government.
Enhanced Primary Care GPDV is responsible for the implementation of the Education and Support Program for GPs about the new MBS items for preventative health care and management, under the Commonwealth's Enhanced Primary Care package.-
The Education Program Coordinator, is employed to support divisions in encouraging GPs to take up the items, use them effectively, and participate in the other elements of the package. The program coordinator has the specific responsibility for the roll out of the training program in
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Practice LiaisonGeneral Practice North West RPC Project
NRAHS - Liaison
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ABOUT THE REGION
Population:Executive 107,910 people (stretching from Latrobe to Smithton includes the West Coast and King
Island
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Area:RVCS 22,202 km2
Features:
- High proportion of people over 65 years of age RCDI - Evans Head
- 5% of indigenous origin
- 7% born overseas (TrainingUK
, NZ,
Netherlands
) VMO Councils
- Small number of recent refugees (complex PC needs)
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- 93 GPs (FT & PT) provide services across the region
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REASONS FOR THE PROGRAM
- No hospice in region
- No state-funded hospital beds for PC Community Liaison Database (Resource Directory)
- GPs cannot admit PC public patients to regional hospitals
- GPs provide PC assisted by DHHS Palliative Care Service (1 PC medical specialist, 8 clinical nurse consultants, 1 social worker)
- Community unaware of PC services
For further information on this project please contact: Rural Palliative Care Project Officer, GP North West
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