Authors: Kellie Preston, Carly Harrison, Sharon Woods, Brendan Humphries
The Allied Health (AH) Integrated Model of Care (MOC) Framework is a transformational approach to clinical redesign of health service delivery. This framework provides the overarching principles of delivering integrated AH care that is tailored and contextualised to individual services and teams.
The AH Integrated MOC Framework:
- Reimagines care from the patient’s perspective.
- Works in partnership to integrate health care across care settings and to improve health outcomes for Central Queenslanders (CQ).
- Demonstrates courage and commitment to challenging the status quo through delivering contemporary comprehensive care to the right patient, in the right place, at the right time.
This project focused on the implementation of 7-day AH services, realising a value-based shift away from traditional acute-focused services toward out-of-hospital care. This was to be achieved through mobilisation and reallocation of existing resources, based on the hypothesis that a whole-of-system redesign would result in enhanced patient access, experience and outcomes, at no additional cost to the health service.
Objectives:
- Design, embed and sustain innovative AH care delivery models to enhance patient outcomes and experience.
- Standardise and optimise patient access and flow across AH work units to achieve enhanced care coordination, continuity, and efficiency/
- Promote and support workforce engagement in clinical redesign processes to cultivate an outcome driven workforce culture/
- Optimise system and service efficiencies through leveraging the benefits of technology and data analytics to improve service access and embed value-based healthcare principles.
- Translate research into clinical practice through data informed evaluation.