CHIC Initiative
Overview
The Wide Bay Fraser Coast Partnership Council was established in November 2007 as a partnership between private, public and non-government sectors with the aim to minimise duplication, improve integration and service coordination and, potentially, increase the capacity of the health system to improve the health of residents within the region.
The Partnership Council’s key focus areas are: chronic and complex care; integrated health promotion and illness prevention; early childhood health; community mental health; and drug and alcohol services.
Partnership Council Members include: Blue Care, OzCare, Indigenous Wellbeing Centre ATSI Corporation, Galangoor Duwalami ATSI Corporation Primary Health Care Service, GP Links Wide Bay (Division of General Practice) and Sunshine Coast Wide Bay Health Service District (Queensland Health).
Current priorities include:
• Establish an outreach service to minimise the harm (including mental illness, intentional self-harm, suicide and chronic disease) caused and/or affected by drug and alcohol misuse;
• Facilitate improvement in co-ordinated care of patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Cardiac Disease who are likely to be readmitted to hospital during the course of their illness;
• Through the provision of Telehealth services:
- provide rural communities with enhanced access to health services,
- provide better education, and training and support opportunities for local health care providers,
- improve collaboration and communication between health care providers, and
- reduce the amount of travel undertaken by health professionals in providing outreach services;
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• Improve health outcomes for patients with diabetes by prototyping best practice, sustainable, practice-based diabetes clinics that will serve as, and be promoted as, a model for all general practices within the region
Newsletter
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Enquiries:
Primary Care Integration Manager: Cyleece Feher
Connecting Healthcare in Communities Initiative
Ph: (07) 4151 0814
Mob: 0447 164 405
Fax: 07 4151 0794
Email: cfeher@gplinks.org.au
Web: www.gplinks.org.au
6 Barolin Street, Bundaberg Q 4670
The Wide Bay Fraser Coast Partnership Council was established in November 2007 as a partnership between private, public and non-government sectors with the aim to minimise duplication, improve integration and service coordination and, potentially, increase the capacity of the health system to improve the health of residents within the region.
The Partnership Council’s key focus areas are: chronic and complex care; integrated health promotion and illness prevention; early childhood health; community mental health; and drug and alcohol services.
Partnership Council Members include: Blue Care, OzCare, Indigenous Wellbeing Centre ATSI Corporation, Galangoor Duwalami ATSI Corporation Primary Health Care Service, GP Links Wide Bay (Division of General Practice) and Sunshine Coast Wide Bay Health Service District (Queensland Health).
Current priorities include:
• Establish an outreach service to minimise the harm (including mental illness, intentional self-harm, suicide and chronic disease) caused and/or affected by drug and alcohol misuse;
• Facilitate improvement in co-ordinated care of patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Cardiac Disease who are likely to be readmitted to hospital during the course of their illness;
• Through the provision of Telehealth services:
- provide rural communities with enhanced access to health services,
- provide better education, and training and support opportunities for local health care providers,
- improve collaboration and communication between health care providers, and
- reduce the amount of travel undertaken by health professionals in providing outreach services;
Click here for further information about Patient Care Coordination
• Improve health outcomes for patients with diabetes by prototyping best practice, sustainable, practice-based diabetes clinics that will serve as, and be promoted as, a model for all general practices within the region
Newsletter
Click here for the latest Newsletter
Enquiries:
Primary Care Integration Manager: Cyleece Feher
Connecting Healthcare in Communities Initiative
Ph: (07) 4151 0814
Mob: 0447 164 405
Fax: 07 4151 0794
Email: cfeher@gplinks.org.au
Web: www.gplinks.org.au
6 Barolin Street, Bundaberg Q 4670
