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Health system integration and reform translation

  • Health system integration and reform translation
    • PIP QI Incentive partnership
    • Mental Health Integration
    • Alcohol and other Drug Integration
    • Voluntary Assisted Dying
    • Statewide Specialist Clinic Referral Criteria
    • State Emergency and Support Recovery
    • The National Disability Insurance Scheme in Victoria and Tasmania
    • SafeScript
    • Population Health Planning
    • My Health Record Expansion
    • Enhancing Carers Supports Within Primary Health Care
    • SafeScript Training Hub
    • Statewide Specialist Clinic Referral Criteria – Communications Toolkit
  • Best practice, prevention, management and support
    • GP Respiratory Clinics
    • Priority Primary Care Centres
    • Victorian HIV and Hepatitis Integrated Training and Learning
    • Infection Prevention Helpline
    • Carer Awareness in General Practice
    • GP Respiratory Clinics: Winter 2022 Communications Pack
    • Accelerated uptake of Hepatitis C medicines
    • Community led cancer screening
    • Lymphoedema Primary Care Capacity Building
    • Optimal Care Pathways
      • Optimal Care Pathways – Communications Toolkit
    • Optimal Care Pathways – Oesophagogastric Cancer OCP
    • Optimal Care Pathways – Prostate Cancer
    • Place-based Suicide Prevention
    • Statewide Paediatric HealthPathways Project
  • Connecting health with other sectors
    • Doctors in Secondary Schools
    • Enhancing Mental Health Support in Secondary Schools
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COVID-19 care pathways

The COVID-19 pathways have been developed using international evidence from health systems including those in New Zealand, the UK and Australia. Our PHNs are responsible for ensuring the pathways align with Victorian Government guidance and are regularly updated as clinical criteria change and local health services adapt their processes.

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PIP QI Incentive partnership

Victorian and Tasmanian PHNs are working together to support the introduction of the Practice Incentive Program Quality Improvement (PIP QI) Incentive.

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Enhancing Carers Supports Within Primary Health Care

Design, develop and launch efforts to enhance primary care workforce capacity to support Victorian carers with a focus on carer recognition and supports.

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Statewide Specialist Clinic Referral Criteria

The Victorian and Tasmanian PHN Alliance has been commissioned by the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services to support an integrated approach to the adoption of statewide referral criteria for acute adult specialist clinics.

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Voluntary Assisted Dying

The Voluntary Assisted Dying Act (2017) provides a safe legal framework for people who are suffering and dying to choose the manner and timing of their death. The Victorian Primary Health Networks are supporting a range of initiatives to enhance health practitioner capacity with regard to voluntary assisted dying.

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Alcohol and other Drug Integration

Statewide approaches to alcohol and other drugs health is a shared priority of the six Victorian Primary Health Networks, an Australian Government Initiative and the Victorian Government Department of Health and Human Services.

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Mental Health Integration

Efforts to support the Enhancing Mental Health Support in Schools (EMHSS) program which provides mental health services to all 327 government secondary schools across Victoria.

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State Emergency and Support Recovery

Contributions to emergency planning and activation of primary care sector linkages in the event of an emergency.

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The National Disability Insurance Scheme in Victoria and Tasmania

Operational information regarding the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).

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My Health Record Expansion

Collaboration with the Australian Digital Health Agency to support provider readiness and communications and community engagement for the My Health Record Expansion across local catchments.

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Population Health Planning

The Victorian Department of Health of Human Services Policy and Funding Guidelines 2017/18 outlined expectations to support joined up approaches to population health planning and implementation.

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SafeScript

Design, develop and deliver training to prescribers and pharmacists on how to use SafeScript which helps prescribers and pharmacists to safely manage patients who may be misusing prescription medicines, or those who may be receiving supplies of high-risk medicines beyond therapeutic need.

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Care Pathways and Referral

Care pathways aim to enhance clinical knowledge and promote best practice care, reduce the number of patients referred to specialist care who could be managed in primary/community care, build collaboration and reduce fragmentation across the health service network, and improve health outcomes.

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  • About us
    • About the Alliance
    • Collaboration
    • Leadership
    • PHN Publications
    • Thought Leadership
  • Our Work
    • Best practice, prevention, management and support
      • Accelerated uptake of Hepatitis C medicines
      • Carer Awareness in General Practice
      • Community led cancer screening
      • GP Respiratory Clinics
      • Infection Prevention Helpline
      • Lymphoedema Primary Care Capacity Building
      • Optimal Care Pathways
        • Optimal Care Pathways – Oesophagogastric Cancer OCP
        • Optimal Care Pathways – Prostate Cancer
      • Place-based Suicide Prevention
      • Priority Primary Care Centres
      • Statewide Paediatric HealthPathways Project
      • Victorian HIV and Hepatitis Integrated Training and Learning
    • Connecting health with other sectors
      • Doctors in Secondary Schools
        • Apply to Doctors in Secondary Schools: one day out of your everyday
      • Enhancing Mental Health Support in Secondary Schools
    • Health system integration and reform translation
      • Alcohol and other Drug Integration
      • Care Pathways and Referral
        • COVID-19 care pathways
      • Enhancing Carers Supports Within Primary Health Care
      • Mental Health Integration
      • My Health Record Expansion
      • PIP QI Incentive partnership
      • Population Health Planning
      • SafeScript
      • State Emergency and Support Recovery
      • Statewide Specialist Clinic Referral Criteria
        • Statewide Specialist Clinic Referral Criteria – Communications Toolkit
      • The National Disability Insurance Scheme in Victoria and Tasmania
      • Voluntary Assisted Dying
  • News and Education
    • Education and Calendars
    • News
    • Online Learning
  • SafeScript Training
  • Contact
    • Contact us
    • Our PHNs
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