Better Sooner More Convenient Primary Care - New Zealand Doctor

6 Deliverables / activities
Implementation plan: to June 30
Trial a process for adapting the HealthPathways:
Decide on the first two areas – areas where HealthPathways have already been
developed in Canterbury, where there are keen local clinicians, and where there are no
major barriers to progress.
Identify local hospital specialists, GPs, hospital and community based nurses who are
willing to participate.
Set up two workshops with local clinicians, plus experienced clinicians and IT support
from Canterbury for the first two pathways.
At the workshops begin with copies of the Canterbury pathways and work through each,
identifying what changes need to be made and where there are access or resource
issues that will need to be solved outside the workshops.
Write up the results of the workshops and circulate back to members.
Work with management to resolve access and resource issues as possible.
Meet in person (or e-mail) to finalise the West Coast adaptation.
Hold professional development meetings with primary and secondary care to educate
regarding the HealthPathways.
Evaluation:
Review how well the above process went, adapt and refine.
Develop a process to adapt future pathways locally without requiring facilitation from
Canterbury.
Select next areas for developing the West Coast adaptation.
Referral quality audit:
develop audit tool
use to gather baseline data.
Year one:
implement the process to adapt another 8 groups of Health Pathways groupings
refine processes
provide further educational sessions
review results of
develop referral quality audit and work on addition of Health Pathways (will depend on
cost and available resources).
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