Investing in DIAMONDS: transforming a surgical waitlist into a ‘preparation list’
The importance of creating a shared understanding of healthcare design, planning and delivery to enable local and system-wide change
This article was provided by Australian Centre for VBHC Advisory Group member, George Leipnik. George is the Director of Strategy and System Priorities at the NSW Ministry of Health, with his team leading the implementation of Future Health. A 10-year strategy for NSW Health, Future Health includes key objectives such as supporting the system to […]
Transforming rehabilitation and recovery services: integrating care for value and outcomes
Value at end of life: driving the outcomes that matter in palliative care
Performance measurement in alcohol and other drug treatment services
Authors: Robert Stirling Introduction and aim: In NSW, non-government services are primarily funded by government using public funds, however there is no standardised approach to performance measurement. This study sought to establish a finite list of performance measures that represented consensus between funders, treatment providers, service users. Method: A three-round Delphi process was undertaken with […]
Psychology Outcomes Clinic
Authors: Nathan Castle The Psychology Outcomes Poster provides outcome data on domains of effectiveness, efficiency, value and wastage. Based on data collected over 6 years with adults attending the Psychology Outcomes Clinic in Geelong. All clients completed a wellbeing/functioning outcome measure at the start of every session to track progress and identify clients who were […]
UTIPP-Q: Urinary Tract Pharmacy PiIot – Queensland
Authors: Lisa Nissen, Esther Lau, Jean Spinks The Urinary Tract Infection Pharmacy Pilot (UTIPP-Q) was introduced in June 2020 just as the pandemic began to impact access to healthcare and primary care services. Even before the pandemic, urinary tract infections (UTIs) were already highlighted as conditions that commonly led to GP visits for women and […]
Putting value-based cancer care into practice – transition from research to standard care
Authors: Lesley Millar, Angela Ives, Jim Codde, Christobel Saunders Background Collecting, analysing, and using patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) is key to enabling best value care, yet an audit within Western Australia (WA) identified that the majority of PROMs initiatives originate from siloed translational research or clinical quality projects. Unlike PREMs, these are not integrated into […]
Using Medication Smart Lockers to deliver outpatient medications
Authors: Andy Campbell Many highly specialised medications are only available from a hospital outpatient pharmacy due to regulatory and/or cost barrier reasons. These medications are used to treat some of our most complex and high-risk patients, including cancer, cystic fibrosis and solid organ transplant recipients. These patients are often well but require medications to remain […]
Using value-based payment models in mental healthcare
Authors: Jonas Fooken We propose an innovate governance structure for developing and implementing value based payment models in mental healthcare within the Australian healthcare system. Core of this structure is our proposal for an independent value based payment. Authority that takes responsibility for developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating value based funding models. Its remit should […]
