LEADING THE COUNTRY WITH A NEW MODEL OF CARE:
HEALTH CARE HOMES As one of ten regions implementing the Commonwealth’s Health Care Homes (HCH) Trial, our HCH practices are leading the country in terms of engagement with this exciting new model of care. The HCH trial is designed to help people better manage their health conditions by providing access to coordinated and integrated care, tailored to their needs. Across the Adelaide metropolitan region, we now support 14 HCH sites with a collective 2,326 patients participating in the trial. To put this success in perspective, enrolments from across our region make up 23% of ALL national HCH enrolments; a testament to how diligently our practices have worked to investigate this model of care. A focus of the 18/19 year, has been the roll out of a shared care planning software to the broader health care ‘neighbourhood’ including allied health providers and community pharmacists. Across our region, shared care planning has been embraced by these providers with 2,217 allied health referrals generated and sent electronically. Since the implementation of community pharmacy in the program an additional 1,478 pharmacy referrals have been generated. Through utilising this software, participating allied health providers and pharmacists can communicate instantly with other members of a person’s care team, thereby supporting more timely, coordinated and responsive care. In the coming year, we look forward to capitalising on the groundwork laid recently to extending the application of this shared care planning software within our region’s local hospitals. This will support access to real time comprehensive information about a person’s diagnosis, medications, care team members and ongoing treatment plan.