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6 Deliverables / activities<br />

Implementation plan: to June 30<br />

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Establish MDT meetings: allied health, district nursing and clinical nurse specialists will<br />

meet with core health centre staff in each health centre to plan the care of specific<br />

high complexity patients. <strong>More</strong> sharing of information about patient needs for care will<br />

ensure more effective management of these patients. Guidelines for conducting these<br />

meetings will be developed.<br />

Identify extent and nature of overlap between medical centre frequent attenders<br />

cohort and community nursing/allied health clients; conduct review of care provided to<br />

patients common to both cohorts; examine systems and/or performance issues<br />

identified by this review and rectify/optimize.<br />

Review nature and type of home based nurse assessments with a view to developing<br />

standardised assessment procedure.<br />

Plan for assignment of community nursing and allied health clinicians to practice<br />

populations.<br />

Identify a professional grouping/team(s) and locations to be the first centre for<br />

implementation of the integrated model. Pilot, refine, spread.<br />

Develop common, integrated service specifications (break down barriers created by the<br />

existing specs). Consolidate and reduce reporting requirements where possible. To<br />

achieve this outcome, communication with the Ministry of Health needs to commence<br />

this year.<br />

Year one:<br />

Develop and implement a pathway for nurse care for different patients groupings, eg.<br />

post surgery, long term condition, frail elderly, palliative (covering the various nursing<br />

groups/specialties) and for wound care, across clinic and home settings.<br />

Examine better linking of home based care with district nursing.<br />

Develop IT and administration systems that enable closer integration, including those<br />

that enable data capture in the home/at the bedside.<br />

Review current referral systems, considering potential role of <strong>Care</strong> Link, and change to<br />

'within-system-request-for-assistance/booking'. Monitor workload and waiting times<br />

and develop new priority and entry criteria as required.<br />

Identify the requirements for sharing clinical notes on MedTech in a single clinical file<br />

used by all health providers in the IFHC. Develop specifications for new system and<br />

fund implementation. Work with the current health centre that does not currently use<br />

MedTech to determine the barriers and facilitators for change.<br />

Develop a plan for better integration of well child services.<br />

Business case appendices V12 AC 25Feb2010 Page 57

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