HEALTH CARE INNOVATION & REDESIGN STRATEGY

Connecting Hospitals, GP and primary health care to redesign & deliver better health care

Enabling a skilled workforce to secure and sustain these benefits

Our Vision

1.       Build practical partnerships among multi-sector leaders from General Practitioners and their Organisations, Community Health Services, Allied Health, Pharmacy Guild and Members, Aged Care; Home and Community Care, Hospital Based Acute Care and Specialty Services to more effectively and efficiently address and deliver integrated services to reduce high burden, high health costs diseases. 

2.       Implement a sustainable chronic disease management program building on and enhancing existing programs in Western Sydney.

3.       Promote healthcare innovation within the workforce to build the capacity and capability for reflective improvement and the sustainable implementation of innovative approaches to health care delivery.   

Strategies

What we do

1.       Assist SWAHS in the transition to Local Hospital Networks including supporting a ‘Transition Team’.  

2.       Support the development of cost effective, high quality integrated health care management systems across general practice, community health, specialty practice and hospital services, that more effectively screen for multiple chronic health conditions (i.e. obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and illness)  to ensure that patients are given the most effective balance and combination of advice and treatment.

3.       Mobilise internal and external partnerships with general practice, community, sub-acute and acute services to develop implementation plans to capitalise on Health Reform investments and new funding arrangements.  This will include the National Four Hour ED target, Activity Based Funding for all the nominated work streams or service domains and other initiatives to deliver integrated health care for chronic and acute illnesses and reduce the need for hospitalisation.

4.       Respond to the e-Health initiatives through a taskforce of key SWAHS and external partners to allow Western Sydney to benefit from becoming an early adopter of this Unique Healthcare Identifiers and e-health technology. Find ways to access and build digital information storage and exchange systems that will allow partners to securely share information and to more effectively manage chronic diseases through shared care plans, discharge and practice summaries, shared medication history and other vital digital information.