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GPCanShare: Enhancing Cancer Management in Primary Care
A shared model of care that aims to include general practitioners within the multidisciplinary team across all areas of the colorectal cancer patient journey.
Added: 31 October 2022 | Last updated: 24 November 2022
Lower Hunter Sector Hospital in the Home Clinical Redesign
This project is making meaningful change to the Hospital in the Home (HITH) service in the Lower Hunter Sector to improve service delivery and increase overall staff satisfaction.
Added: 26 October 2022 | Last updated: 24 November 2022
VIP Project: Reducing Re-presentations and Readmissions to Hospital for Very Intensive Patients
The VIP project developed a strategy to identify Very Intensive Patients (VIPs) who are at high risk of re-presenting to hospital and implemented methods to address their medical and psycho-social...
Added: 18 December 2015 | Last updated: 8 November 2021
Enhancing Remote Physiotherapy Services for Consistent Patient Care
Hay Physiotherapy Service implemented a telehealth model of care for appropriate patients, to better manage its waiting list and allow patients across vast geographical regions to access physiotherapy services in...
Added: 6 April 2017 | Last updated: 14 May 2021
Yhunger: healthy living skills for at-risk young people
Yhunger has developed educational resources and training workshops for youth workers that focus on ‘hands on’ skills development with young people.
Added: 15 July 2015 | Last updated: 22 April 2021
Healthy Lifestyles Project for newly arrived young people
This project addressed two significant gaps in service provision for newly arrived young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds: prevention of rapid weight gain during the settlement and post arrival...
Added: 4 March 2020 | Last updated: 20 April 2021
Eurobodalla Birthing Partners
This project developed a new model of care, where pregnant women at Eurobodalla Maternity Service were offered a known midwife who was an integral part of their antenatal, birth and...
Added: 16 August 2017 | Last updated: 20 April 2021
Community Eye Care in Western Sydney
Community Eye Care (C-EYE-C) improved access to ophthalmology services for patients in Western Sydney, by partnering with local optometrists to conduct standardised examinations, which were then reviewed remotely by hospital...
Added: 11 July 2018 | Last updated: 20 April 2021
Randwick campus redevelopment Green Travel Plan
The Randwick campus redevelopment Green Travel Plan and implementation plan sets out: future targets for staff travel mode share, specifically a reduction in car driver mode share; travel demand management...
Added: 18 February 2020 | Last updated: 3 March 2020
Transition to Recovery
Feedback from the Mental Health Service consumer experience and staff surveys indicate that patients are leaving inpatient services with limited understanding of their goals for post-discharge care, and community mental...
Added: 9 December 2019 | Last updated: 12 December 2019
Opioid treatment options
Clarence Valley Opioid Treatment Service will provide patients with responsive and coordinated care supporting long term change and reconnection to the community.
Added: 2 December 2019 | Last updated: 12 December 2019
Saving lives in the morgue: forensic medicine social work
The forensic medicine social work service is being redesigned for people who are traumatically and suddenly bereaved, so they feel supported and well informed when facing a potentially disempowering and...
Added: 6 May 2019 | Last updated: 9 May 2019
Creating an integrated and responsive community acute care mental health service: to improve the quality of consumer outcomes
Mental health community services should provide an integrated and comprehensive recovery service for consumers. However, services have operated in silos over previous years, which can result in a fragmented consumer...
Added: 6 May 2019 | Last updated: 9 May 2019
Food for Thought
This project implements a clinical pathway for referral and treatment that includes screening, triage, and assessment; and provides adults referred to Richmond Adult Community Mental Health Service with cognitive behavioural...
Added: 29 March 2019 | Last updated: 12 April 2019
Preventative model of care at the Moruya dental clinic
This project explored how demand for dental services can be met and sustained over time, with a focus on preventative care.
Added: 15 February 2019 | Last updated: 28 February 2019
A piece of your heart: who fits where in your heart failure care?
This project aims to provide proactive care for heart failure patients in the Hunter New England Local Health District. It will support people with heart failure who are transitioning from...
Added: 28 November 2018 | Last updated: 13 December 2018
Keeping our Community Staff Safe
This project aims to improve the identification of clients who may be violent or aggressive towards St Vincent’s Hospital Network staff working in the community.
Added: 19 November 2018 | Last updated: 13 December 2018
A Tooth in Time Saves Nine: Redesigning the Denture Journey
The CCLHD Oral Health Service is improving the provision of denture services. There will be a fairer and more efficient patient journey through the system, improved communication with patients, and...
Added: 20 November 2018 | Last updated: 13 December 2018
Unlocking Care: Improving Access to GP Services in Adult Correctional Centres
The Justice Health & Forensic Mental Health Network is implementing six identified solutions to improve access to general practitioner services in correctional centres across NSW.
Added: 22 August 2018 | Last updated: 30 August 2018
Get It Together: For People with Multidisciplinary Healthcare Needs in the Community
This project pulls together multidisciplinary teams around their clients, as it has been shown that when people are included in care that is coordinated, they have better health and wellbeing.
Added: 28 November 2017 | Last updated: 15 December 2017
Multidisciplinary Assessment and Documentation in Community Palliative Care
Croydon Community Health Centre implemented a new model of care, including scheduled multidisciplinary team meetings, revised documentation and communication processes, as well as training for emergency department and generalist nursing...
Added: 28 November 2017 | Last updated: 12 December 2017
Nambucca Valley Specialist Wound Intervention Service
This project improved access to community wound clinics, so patients who have or are at risk of wounds can consistently receive best practice care in a timely manner.
Added: 18 August 2017 | Last updated: 25 August 2017
Access, Choice and Equity in Community Palliative Care
This project developed a palliative care referral and triage process and education program in SLHD, with a focus on services delivered in the community.
Added: 17 August 2017 | Last updated: 25 August 2017
Improving Clinical Review in the Northern Sydney Home Nursing Service
This project defined the role of the resource representative and increased awareness of this role among staff at Northern Sydney Home Nursing Service, to ensure patients are referred to the...
Added: 3 May 2017 | Last updated: 17 May 2017
The Grin and Grow Health Pathway
A new model of care was developed to provide preventive oral health care for children and young people in the Out of Home Care Health Pathway Program. The model includes...
Added: 14 March 2017 | Last updated: 28 April 2017
Rapid Access Colonoscopy: Faecal Occult Blood Test
This project designed and implemented a rapid access colonoscopy service for positive faecal occult blood test referrals in HNELHD.
Added: 24 February 2016 | Last updated: 2 March 2016