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Opportunities, Priorities and Options
This section summaries priorities from the health and service needs analysis, and options for how they may be addressed.
Priorities
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1. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
2. Aged Care
3. Alcohol and Other Drugs
4. Mental Health
5. Population Health
6. Digital Health
7. Health Workforce
Identified needs
1. Access to afterhours services
2. Access to culturally appropriate health services
3. Access to health care services and preventative care
4. Access to low intensity MH services
5. Access to Mental Health services in rural and remote areas
6. Access to oral health services
7. Access to specialist MH services
8. Access to specialist MH services for young people
9. Access to specialist services to support ageing well
10. Access to specialist services to support developmental health and wellbeing of children and youth
11. Access to suicide prevention and services
12. ACCHOs are supported to improve the individual and community health experience
13. CALD communities are supported to engage and participate in health prevention and health care
14. Chronic disease: multidisciplinary care and prevention
15. Community appropriate MHAOD rehabilitation services
16. Community led suicide prevention approaches
17. Delivery of specialist AOD services
18. Improve immunisation and vaccination rates
19. Improve individual and community health outcomes
20. Integrated and coordinated care across the health system
21. Medication Management
22. Older persons are supported to stay healthy and well in their place of residence
23. Reduce potentially preventable hospitalisations
24. Utilisation of technical solutions to facilitate integrated and coordinated care across the health system
25. Whole of person care for people with complex mental illness and psychosocial disability
26. Workforce and service sustainability
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
Identified
Access to culturally appropriate health services
Appropriate care (including cultural safety)
Support Access to CareHealth Services
Support Health ServicesGeneral Practice/ ACCHOs
Increase individual and community access to health care services.
General Practices and Aboriginal Controlled Health Organisations are supported to improve individual and community health outcomes and experience of health care.
Investigate opportunities that support provision of culturally safe care that incorporates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander understandings of health and wellbeing.
Support cultural competency in services delivered to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples by mainstream health services.
ACCHOs are supported to improve the individual and community health experience
Potentially Preventable Hospitalisations (PPH)
Workforce
Improve the Health System - System Integration & Coordination
Support Health ServicesGeneral Practice/ ACCHOs
Improve integration of systems and coordination of care across health services for improved individual health outcomes and experience of health care.
General Practices and Aboriginal Controlled Health Organisations are supported to improve individual and community health outcomes and experience of health care.
Commission activity to facilitate coordination of care for individuals who experience frequent or high levels of hospitalisation.
In partnership with ACCHOs provide material support according to identified needs to facilitate operational, workforce, service improvements.
In all activities in this area and below; CSAPHN leading activity in partnership and consultation with Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations, Aboriginal Health Council SA (AHCSA) and SA Health AMS leads. For targeted sub activities also engaging the APHN and RFDS.
Improve individual and community health outcomes
Chronic Disease (Screening/ Management/Coo rdination)
Support Access to CareHealth Education
Increase individual and community access to resources that effectively assist use of health knowledge and understanding, increasing choices and supporting decisions on health care
Investigate opportunities that support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients with chronic disease conditions in self-management, with the aims of improving individual and community health outcomes and reducing avoidable hospitalisation.
Early Intervention Prevention / Social Determinants
Improve the Health System - Health Technology
Increase health service implementation and application of technical solutions to improve integration of systems and coordination of care across health services.
Linking of chronic care programs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as they move across and through the region, through: Multiparty conferencing for case conferencing with health professionals in different locations; and Promotion of My Health Record
Support Access to CarePrevention Activities
Increase individual and community access to preventative health care services.
Investigate opportunities that support prevention, early identification and treatment activities.
Multi-Disciplinary Care Support Health ServicesGeneral Practice/ ACCHOs
Improve the Health System - Health Technology
General Practices and Aboriginal Controlled Health Organisations are supported to improve individual and community health outcomes and experience of health care.
Increase health service implementation and application of technical solutions to improve integration of systems and coordination of care across health services.
Support the RFDS to continue to build capacity in providing primary health services to remote communities.
Facilitate Shared Clinical reviews which are evidenced to be a useful tool in managing complex conditions, particularly for people who blur the eligibility lines across services and whose needs vary from time to time.
