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Integrated Care
Greet to treat: Enhancing the experience in Bandaged Bear Clinics 1 and 2
This project looks at maximising the efficiency and effectiveness of outpatient services within the main outpatient department at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead.
Added: 1 August 2023 | Last updated: 20 February 2024
The 24/7 Virtual Care Intensive Care Unit Support Project
This project aims to improve access to timely and specialised care in Level 4 ICUs in regional NSW by integrating telehealth technology, enabling continuous specialist support via remote consultations and...
Added: 28 August 2023 | Last updated: 14 September 2023
Time Maters – Sharing care in Calvary Mater Newcastle cancer service
The project aims to improve the experience of people affected by cancer, improve the experience of the medical oncology team and implement improvements to the delivery of care.
Added: 2 August 2023 | Last updated: 22 August 2023
Managing challenges through collaboration at Balmain Hospital General Practice Casualty
The project aims to improve patient experience whilst simultaneously increasing the efficiency and capacity of the service and enhancing staff experience by July 2024.
Added: 2 August 2023 | Last updated: 22 August 2023
Home grown: Maximising Tweed Children’s Hospital in the Home/ Paediatric Post-Acute Care Service
The aim of this project is to develop a model of care that supports staff to deliver a well-defined, consistent and reliable services to improve access and bring care as...
Added: 1 August 2023 | Last updated: 22 August 2023
Art of Procurement – A collaboration between Western Sydney Local Health District and HealthShare NSW
This project aims to improve the procurement efficiency of clinical products (with the exclusion of prosthetics) for Westmead Perioperative Unit by 30 June 2023.
Added: 1 August 2023 | Last updated: 22 August 2023
Access unlocked: Improving patient access to care in NSW correctional settings
This project aims to reduce variations in patient access to care in NSW public adult correctional centres by June 2024, so that patients can receive the right care at the...
Added: 3 August 2023 | Last updated: 22 August 2023
Home is where the heart is
This project aims to deliver meaningful solutions that support staff in accessing RPM for their patients.
Added: 1 August 2023 | Last updated: 22 August 2023
Western Sydney Diabetes Virtual Care
The Western Sydney Diabetes (WSD) project focuses on providing comprehensive diabetes care through a blended model of virtual and in-person clinics.
Added: 17 July 2023 | Last updated: 18 July 2023
Implementation of the ACI back pain model in ED
Our aim was to reduce the use of opioid analgesics from 70% to 60% of patients with back pain presenting to the emergency departments of Sydney Local Health District and...
Added: 18 May 2023 | Last updated: 22 May 2023
Measuring what matters: Health Outcomes and Patient Experience (HOPE)
The Health Outcomes and Patient Experience (HOPE) purpose-built IT platform, enables patients and carers to provide feedback about their outcomes and experiences from their personal electronic devices.
Added: 4 April 2023 | Last updated: 26 April 2023
Where is your birthplace? Designing an alternate birthplace option for women on the Central Coast
This project aims to meet the needs of more women living on the Central Coast, by providing alternative publicly funded birthplace options.
Added: 19 April 2023 | Last updated: 26 April 2023
Alternatives to an ‘in-hospital’ bed
This project aims to reduce avoidable admissions to The Sutherland Hospital by 5% for patients presenting to the emergency department, enabling safe and timely discharge.
Added: 19 April 2023 | Last updated: 26 April 2023
Better together
Better Together is about improving parent and carer access to food when staying with their child in hospital.
Added: 21 April 2023 | Last updated: 24 April 2023
Finding Your Way: Yarning to make health decisions together
Finding Your Way is a shared decision making model created with mob, for mob.
Added: 22 March 2023 | Last updated: 11 April 2023
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
vCare
vCare is a designated virtual unit that provides specialty-level advice, critical care expertise, transport, logistics, and coordination support across Western NSW Local Health District.
Added: 4 August 2021 | Last updated: 11 November 2022
Transitional Aged Care Program Redesign
This project sought to improve the effectiveness of the Transitional Aged Care Program by unifying and clarifying the governance and underlying philosophy across all teams, improving communication, building case management...
Added: 21 April 2022 | Last updated: 28 April 2022
Creating Healthy Tomorrows: A Care Pathway for the Future
Our project identified our patients are worried about access to, and the quality of, care they receive. Our staff want to work collaboratively and partner with patients to provide timely,...
Added: 15 November 2021 | Last updated: 9 December 2021
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
Southcare Outreach Service (SOS)
The Southcare Outreach Service is a new model of care that delivers a rapid response, multidisciplinary team to clients aged over 65 years in their home to prevent presentations to...
Added: 19 February 2016 | Last updated: 28 October 2021
Storks
Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network in partnership with HealthShare NSW is developing a standardised service delivery model for the safe, timely and efficient transport of newborn babies to appointments and back,...
Added: 24 April 2018 | Last updated: 9 June 2021
Collaborative Care Outreach for Residential Aged Care Facilities
The ‘A Collaborative Care Outreach for Residential Aged Care Facilities in SLHD’ (ACCORD) project aims to deliver improvements in clinical leadership, education, processes and connections between the Access Care Team...
Added: 24 April 2018 | Last updated: 2 June 2021
Identifying and Managing Iron Deficiency and Iron Deficiency Anaemia
MLHD identified an alternative option for iron replacement therapy and developed guidelines to deliver it in the community setting where clinically indicated, in collaboration with patients and carers.
Added: 16 August 2017 | Last updated: 27 May 2021
Partners in Care
This project supports staff who are trained in health coaching but are not providing it to patients on a regular basis. It also introduced an evaluation framework to continually assess...
Added: 24 April 2018 | Last updated: 14 May 2021
Multiagency Coordination of Prenatal Risk
Central Coast Local Health District established regular meetings with the NSW Department of Family and Community Services and all health services involved in the care of pregnant women, in cases...
Added: 2 May 2018 | Last updated: 21 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
Aboriginal Wellbeing Hospital Discharge Booklet
An Aboriginal cultural resource was developed to improve the hospital discharge journey of Aboriginal patients, families and carers in MNCLHD. The clinical redesign process involved monitoring data, developing culturally appropriate...
Added: 29 January 2018 | Last updated: 20 April 2021
Making the Health of the Nation Outcome Scale Work For Us
This project added an additional multidisciplinary team meeting to the Older Persons Mental Health Team schedule each week and adjusted the meeting agenda, to allow more time for mental health...
Added: 30 April 2018 | Last updated: 8 April 2021
Paediatric Access Support Service (PASS)
The Paediatric Access Support Service (PASS) aims to transfer patients to and from Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network inpatient settings efficiently. This would reduce associated workload, and improve the patient and...
Added: 28 August 2019 | Last updated: 29 August 2019
Integrating care for frequent service users in Goulburn
This project brings together the local ambulance service, general practice, hospital emergency department (ED) and community health centre resources to identify and respond to patients who repeatedly use one or...
Added: 6 May 2019 | Last updated: 9 May 2019
Breath of Fresh Air: Paediatric Long Term Ventilation
This project aims to provide a coordinated, equitable and integrated service for children requiring invasive long term ventilation, and their families. It also aims to support the needs of long...
Added: 4 December 2018 | Last updated: 13 December 2018
Innovative Service Delivery Model
Western Sydney Local Health Districtestablished a Mental Health Acute Assessment Team at Cumberland Hospital. The service responds to relevant Triple Zero calls via a dispatch system, using dedicated paramedics and...
Added: 28 May 2018 | Last updated: 22 June 2018
Home-Based Subcutaneous Immunoglobulin Replacement Therapy
Liverpool Hospital is implementing a home-based subcutaneous immunoglobulin replacement therapy program for patients with impaired immune systems.
Added: 28 May 2018 | Last updated: 21 June 2018
The Asthma Follow Up Integrated Care Initiative
Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick developed an integrated model of care for children with non-complex asthma, including care coordination, communication with general practitioners, parent education and emergency department resources and processes.
Added: 28 May 2018 | Last updated: 12 June 2018
Complex Care Coordination in NSW Emergency Departments
Royal North Shore Hospital is developing a clinical pathway for people who frequently present to hospital emergency departments with chronic pain and complex conditions, which will be rolled out across...
Added: 23 April 2018 | Last updated: 8 May 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
Child-at-Risk Electronic Medical Record Alert
NNSWLHD developed a unique alert system for at-risk children and pregnant women that is integrated into the patient’s electronic medical record
Added: 25 August 2017 | Last updated: 11 September 2017
Police Ambulance Early Access to Mental Health Assessment via Telehealth
HNELHD provided iPads to police and ambulance staff, so they can access mental health triage and support for consumers at the scene of the emergency.
Added: 15 August 2017 | Last updated: 25 August 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
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
Redesign of Maternity Services at Macksville Health Campus
This project introduced a new service, where midwives at Macksville Health Campus deliver pregnancy and postnatal care to women in their home. It involves flexible rostering patterns to maximise existing...
Added: 7 April 2017 | Last updated: 28 April 2017
Waist Less: Part of the Sustainable Connections for Overweight and Obesity in Paediatrics Project
The Waist Less project aims to improve clinical processes and resources at the CHW, to increase the identification and management of children with obesity and their families. It is part...
Added: 18 April 2017 | Last updated: 28 April 2017
Improving the Efficiency of External Pathology Results
The Heart and Lung Clinic at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney implemented a number of changes to the way it follows up and communicates external pathology results. This included the development...
Added: 7 April 2017 | Last updated: 21 April 2017