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The Health Alliance: Health and well-being of frail older people
When an older person has a decline in function or becomes unwell, often their only option is to go to hospital despite their preference for care closer to home. Building on previous collaborative work, including the development of a five-year healthcare plan for older people, the Alliance is supporting the system to move the focus of health system activity from increasing the volume of patients treated towards a focus on what matters most to patients, and on improving the quality of service provision and continuity of care.
When an older person has a decline in function or becomes unwell, often their only option is to go to hospital despite their preference for care closer to home. Building on previous collaborative work, including the development of a five-year healthcare plan for older people, the Alliance is supporting the system to move the focus of health system activity from increasing the volume of patients treated towards a focus on what matters most to patients, and on improving the quality of service provision and continuity of care.
The Ageing Well Initiative aims to improve the outcomes for
people aged 75 years and older in The Prince Charles Hospital catchment area. Significant
consultation has been undertaken with a range of stakeholders including General
Practitioners, RACFs, NGOs, hospital clinicians, allied health, Indigenous
providers and consumers, their families and their carers. Availability of
emergency respite was prioritised as a need throughout the region and
stakeholders considered that transparency and visibility of emergency respite
bed availability could improve health outcomes for older people. We are hoping
to further understand emergency respite availability in the TPCH and the
appetite among RACFs to provide information to clinicians across the sector to
improve the patient journey for those people who may require emergency respite
for any number of reasons.
Consultation
Objectives:
Determine how many facilities take emergency
respite patients and timeliness of transfer
Determine current capacity of facilities especially
for emergency respite
Determine the barriers to accepting patients for
emergency respite
Determine appetite for sharing information
across the sector
Building on your feedback from the co-design event on May 9 and last week's discussion, this week we are exploring how we can improve our care response for frail older people.
Building on your feedback from the co-design event on May 9, this week we are exploring how Clinical Frailty Score could be used as a screening tool in primary care and how this information could be captured and shared with the team providing care to the patient.
In 2017 Metro North Hospital and Health Service (MNHHS) and Brisbane North PHNcreated the Health Alliance. The Alliance is an approach to tackling healthcare problems that transcend the mandate of any one organisation or part of the health sector, and that can't be fixed by existing approaches.
The Alliance brings together stakeholders including consumers to discuss shared problems and develop shared solutions. It’s about empowering people and the sector to design a system response not limited by existing program or institutional boundaries. The focus is on solutions that benefit both patients and the health system.
