The Mid and North Coast HealthPathways Team have been celebrating reaching 400 localised HealthPathways!! Mid and North Coast HealthPathways provides information to consistently assess and manage medical conditions as well as the criteria for requesting health services in the Mid and North Coast Local Health Area. HealthPathways empowers clinicians with locally agreed information to make
The International Summer School on Integrated Care was a five-day residential program for public sector leaders committed to driving integrated care. Participants travelled to Kingscliff, where they were exposed to a mix of International and Australian case studies, and encouraged to workshop solutions to their integrated care programs throughout the week. The Summer School supported
One thing’s for sure – everyone dies. Let’s open up conversations about death and dying and talk about fostering more compassion within our communities. Come along to this free community forum and join health professionals, community members and friends to talk about this sometimes awkward subject. Hear from others about their experiences with dying and
Integrated care in action- A day of networking and shared learning during mental health workplace training. The session was facilitated by Steve Carrigg from the Rural Adversity Mental Health Program (RAMHP). Through innovative projects, local and national partnerships, mental health information, tailored advice, workshops and short courses, RAMHP links people with services ensuring help is
The Specialised Osteoarthritis Screening Clinic (SOS Clinic) celebrated one year of operation in May. For over 12 months now the SOS clinic has been screening patients in the Tweed area for whole of health issues effecting their joint pain and function. Evan Bryant, Musculoskeletal Coordinator at the clinic has developed appropriate assessment and management programs,
The Nurse Network Meetings continue across the region with recent sessions being held in Alstonville and Kingscliff. The Nurse Educator for Integrated Care – Melanie Franz and North Coach Primary Health Network’s Clinical Nurse Adviser Karri Crossing collaborated to deliver the May Nurse Network Meetings which focused on the topic of Wound Management. Supported by
The judging panel had some tough decisions to make at this year’s NNSW LHD Quality Awards. Two Integrated Care finalists made it through to present at the Quality Awards Presentation Dinner at The Twin Towns Services Club on Friday 15 June. One of those finalists was Flexible Diuretic Regimens as a Patient Self-Management Strategy in
Melanie Franz, Nurse Educator (RACF & GP) for Integrated Care has collaborated with the North Coast Primary Health Network (NCPHN) to source and deliver education to primary health workers enabling them to manage chronic disease patients with behaviour change and health coaching. As a key project deliverable this initiative also supports the Winter Strategy 2018.
The Groundswell Project recently announced that Northern NSW has been selected as one of the 8 communities known as “GroundBreakers” to be a part of The GroundSwell Projects’ Compassionate Communities Practice Forum. The honour is attributed to the hard work and application made by Anna Law, Project Lead, End of Life Care with the support
As part of the Northern NSW Local Health District commitment to the Winter Strategy for 2018 the NNSWLHD has shared valuable patient admission information with its partners, the local general practitioners who were involved in keeping vulnerable and at-risk patients safe last Winter. GPs who participated in last year’s Winter Strategy received encrypted admission data