Day Two - Reform in Primary Health Care
Wednesday 29th September, 2010

8:00
Welcome coffee & networking
8:30
Welcome remarks from the Chair
Super Clinics to drive integration
8:40
Creating comprehensive Primary Health Care Centres for
equitable care - CASE STUDY

  • Building integrated teams of healthcare workers
  • Pooling funds and providing packages of care to support
    those with complex and chronic conditions
  • Measuring outcomes and improving equity
Rodney Wilson, CEO
Inner East Community Health Services, VIC
9:10
Achieving goals & facing challenges as a Super Clinic
CASE STUDY

  • Key goals and challenges faced in implementing Australia’s
    first GP Super Clinic in Ballan, Victoria
  • An analysis of the potential impacts of the proposed
    Federal Government $350 million roll out of GP Super
    Clinics
Glenn Rowbotham, CEO
Ballan GP Super Clinic, VIC
9:40
Urban GP Super Clinics as centres for innovation,
integration & support for local GPs

  • Regional advanced care hubs – GPs with special interests
    and service integration approaches
  • Innovation, training and research in primary care
  • The UQ GP Super Clinic approach
A/Prof Jared Dart, Director
GP Super Clinics, University of Queensland
10:20
Morning Tea & Networking
Indigenous Health
10:40
‘Closing the gap’ in Indigenous health disadvantage:
Lessons learnt - CASE STUDY

  • Access to culturally proficient workforces and practises
  • Working collectively, not individually
  • Accommodating indigenous world views of health in
    primary health care
Paul Calcott, Cultural Service Integration Manager and
Nadine Thomas, Program Development Consultant
Suncare Community Services, QLD
INTEGRATION OF NURSES
11:20
The evolving role of practice nurses in health care
delivery models

  • Potential roles within PHCOs and Super Clinics
  • Potential impacts of new health care delivery models and
    new funding incentives
  • Practical methods and structures for teams to function at
    its best in an integrated network
Sally Hall & A/Prof Christine Phillips
Academic Unit of General Practice and Community Health,
ANU
12:00
Practice nurses integration into PHCOs

  • The role of the practice nurse in primary health care reform
Senior Representative, Australian Practice Nurse Association
12:40
lunch
Multidisciplinary Teams & Consumer Centric
2:00
Creating integrated health care teams

  • Conceptual model of integrated health care teams
  • Team practice and organisation
  • Monitoring and evaluation
A/Prof Julie Hepworth, Health Psychologist
University of Queensland
2:40
Using consumer centric care to realise a triple bottom
line in primary healthcare

  • Chronic disease: involving consumers to self manage
  • Integrating services to boost individual health outcomes
  • Engaging clinicians in PHCOs and Super Clinics by having
    them commit to consumer centric care
Russell McGowan, Consumer Commissioner
Australian Commission for Safety & Quality in Health Care
3:10
Afternoon Tea & Networking
Implementation of E-health
3:30
E-health – what does it mean for the health profession
and the community?

  • Concerns for the health profession and the community
  • Preparing the profession for e-health
Senior Representative,
Health Practice Creations Group
3:50
Effective timely access to health data through e-health

  • Integration of providers and greater control for consumers
    for consumers
  • Person controlled electronic health record
  • General Practice data – PHCO’s at the ready
Dr Christopher Pearce, Director
Research of Melbourne East General Practice Network
Program Clinical Lead of National E-Health Transition
Authority (NeHTA), VIC
4:30
Integrating primary health care through implementing
of e-health - PANEL DISCUSSION

  • Sharing of health information is essential for integration
  • Evidence-based analysis: pros and cons
  • Empowering consumers to take health into their own hands
  • Privacy and other concerns
Dr Christopher Pearce, Director
Research of Melbourne East General Practice Network
Program Clinical Lead of National E-Health Transition
Authority (NeHTA), VIC

Associate Professor Jared Dart, Director of GP Super Clinics
University of Queensland

Russell McGowan, Consumer Commissioner

Australian Commission for Safety & Quality in Health Care
5:00
Closing remarks from the Chair
5:10
Close of CONFERENCE