Better Sooner More Convenient Primary Care - New Zealand Doctor
Better Sooner More Convenient Primary Care - New Zealand Doctor
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Health navigators/ kaiawhina:<br />
change cancer navigator processes and criteria to include helping those with LTCs<br />
provide training in LTCs for health navigators and kaiawhina<br />
health literacy training for kaiawhina/navigators<br />
align health navigators and kaiawhina with IFHCs<br />
refine patient pathways between navigators/kaiawhina, in close relationship with Māori<br />
nurses within the IFHCs<br />
develop and implement pathway to follow-up frequent LTC emergency department (ED)<br />
attendees/admissions so that they understand how to access and navigate the primary<br />
care system.<br />
Self management/health literacy support:<br />
scope MedTech Manage my Health portal as a tool to improve self management<br />
review transport issues and develop plan to address these.<br />
Integrated community nursing and allied health in IFHCs:<br />
regular multidisciplinary meetings with clinical nurse specialist and allied health<br />
placing of CNS and allied health in IFHCs<br />
investigate use of shared electronic record.<br />
Decreasing repeat attendances at ED for LTC patients:<br />
work with ED to create a pathway to refer these people to either CNSs, health<br />
navigators or core general practice team.<br />
<strong>Care</strong> Link integration (see Appendix Eleven: Frail older people for more information)<br />
InterRAI assessments done in IFHCs/practices<br />
include <strong>Care</strong> Link in MDT meetings in IFHCs<br />
align LTC and frail elderly pathways.<br />
Data and reporting:<br />
review prevalence estimates and Read coding for West Coast, particularly for COPD<br />
review appropriateness of reports provided to IFHCs<br />
Year two<br />
more integrated community nursing and allied health working in IFHCs, (see EOI<br />
community and allied workstream plan)<br />
packages of care for patients with deteriorating medical condition/social situation,<br />
enabling faster access to a greater range of home/community support services.<br />
Year three<br />
review outputs, outcomes and the implementation of this plan, revise this plan as<br />
required.<br />
Business case appendices V12 AC 25Feb2010 Page 49