Rising chronic disease rates and an ageing population are already major issues for everyone working in and accessing healthcare.
The Collaborative is four leading health organisations in Melbourne, working to create joint solutions to these shared health care problems.
Developing Digital Health foundations across member agencies and health providers provides the building blocks to support a range of Digital Health products and initiatives, which over time will transform the delivery of healthcare.
For more info...The emphasis of the Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) project is to build capacity across primary health care providers, tapping into community services and providing the right care in the right place.
For more info...A pilot Back pain Assessment Clinic (BAC) was developed to help reduce waiting lists for neurosurgery and orthopaedic spinal surgery. A community-based back pain clinic was established to provide timely access to assessment and management of back and neck pain in The Collaborative community health centres.
For more info...The ‘stepping up’ implementation project seeks to address the delay in treatment intensification for type 2 diabetes in the primary care setting, through testing the implementation of the Stepping Up model of care in general practices.
For more info...Previous diabetes projects
The Coordinated Community Care for Diabetes Project (CCC4D) project was established in late 2012. The project aimed to improve the journey and outcome for patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) across acute and primary care.
Raising Awareness of Advance Care Planning is a project funded by North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network and managed by cohealth as the project lead, with the primary goal of increasing awareness of Advance Care Planning in the community.
For more info...Previous Advance Care Planning projects
The Enabling System-Wide Advance Care Planning initiative brought together service providers from across settings to identify, develop and test models for improving advance care planning. Our focus was on encouraging discussions about future medical care, before people reach an acute stage of illness, by making ACP a part of usual practice in primary care settings.
