Day 2 Agenda
8.00 Registration, Coffee and Networking
8.30 Welcome remarks from the chair
A business case for e-Health
8.40 CASE STUDY: Building capacity for
e-Health in general practice in Victoria
• Developing a state-wide perspective on
information
management to improve sharing of information
• Supporting implementation of the IMMF by divisions of
general practice
• Working with software vendors to improve general
practice systems
Dr Ross Nable
Population Health &
e-Health Team Manager
General Practice Victoria
9.20 Enabling and implementing e-Health
nationally
• Developing a business case for e-health;
supporting
delivery of reforms
• Linkage of new systems with current systems
Senior Representative
National e-Health Transition Authority
10.00 Morning tea and networking
Integration and coordination of
primary
health care teams
10.30 CASE STUDY: Inner East Comunity Health
Service , Victoria
• Creating integrated primary health care
teams; the
role of GPs; Nurses; Allied Health Professionals;
Counsellors and others
• Implementing funding models that result in integrated
teams
• Remembering the bigger picture; understanding the
causes of bad health outcomes and the role of the
integrated primary healthcare team in responding to
the social determinants of health
Rod Wilson
CEO,
Inner East Community Health Service, Victoria
11.10 Developing and enhancing the role of the
practice nurse
• Making more effective use of the practice
nurse skills
and alleviating some of the pressure on GPs
• Practice nurses role in the delivery of preventive
strategies in general practice
Anne Matyear
President
Australian Practice Nurse Association
Member, National Primary Health Care Strategy ERG
11.50 CASE STUDY: The role of the patient
in the care team
• Integrating and disseminating chronic
disease
pathways and protocols between general practice
and QLD Health
• Enhancing communication skills within general
practice teams to improve patient engagement.
• Implementation of this program by integrating the
shared electronic health records (SEHR) system.
Vicki Poxon
CEO Brisbane South Division of
General
Practice & Michael Greco, Director, CFEP
12.30 Lunch
1.40 The role of the General Practitioner
in an integrated model of care
• How can the role of the GP evolve to support
a truly
integrated primary care team?
• Ensuring a sustainable GP workforce to deliver quality
care and better patient outcomes
• GP as co-ordinator and interpreter of care; guiding the
patient through health care
Rod Pearce
AMA Federal Councillor &
Chairman, AMA Council of General Practitioners
Achieving the
objective ; equitable
community based care nationally
2.20 How should Aboriginal care be provided ?
• Issues of access and timely care; should
aboriginal
communities receive more mainstream healthcare
• Achieving this in a culturally safe and sensitive way
• How can we enable health services to work
collaboratively not competitively; how to bridge the gap
Mick Adams
Chair, NACCHO
3.00 Afternoon tea and networking
3.20 CASE STUDY: Reaching social inclusion and
bridging the gap in inequity of care
• Accessibility for low income groups, access
and affordability of health care
• Metrocentic distribution of workforces and clinics;
how can this be overcome?
Dr Noel Hayman
Clinical Director Inala Indigenous
Health Service Queensland &
Member, National Primary Health Care Strategy ERG
4.00 Achieving Integrated Primary Health Care
on a national level
• Adapting regional models for national
implementation
• The ‘team care coordination programme, moving from
a regional initiative to a national model
Abbe Anderson
CEO, GP Partners
4.40 Closing Remarks from the chair
