DHF Annual Report 2009 - NT Health Digital Library - Northern ...

Finalise Adult Guardianship reform in the Northern Territory including informal decision making frameworks.in the Northern Territory. A pilot will be undertaken in late 2010 to test the framework within the operatingenvironment. In addition, the organisation engaged to facilitate this work NDS NT (National DisabilityService NT), has provided a peak body role for a number of consultation and staff training activities, criticalto reform in the disability service sector. This has included promoting the disability insurance campaignnationally, including in the Territory.Implement Secure Care. Tier 1 Stabilisation and Assessment services will operate as expanded capacity atboth the Darwin and Alice Springs In-Patient Mental Health facilities to enable stabilisation and assessment ofyoung people and cognitively impaired adults whose behaviours place them at a high to extreme risk of harm.Tier 2 Secure Care Group Homes will see new purpose built facilities that will have capacity for 24 hour carefor up to eight young people and eight adults with high risk behaviours. There will be one facility in Darwin andone in Alice Springs. Client groups will be co-located however, each will be within a separate wing of the homeand there will be no interaction between the two client groups. Introduce new Public and Environmental Health legislation.workers. Promote free vaccination for all clinical and non-clinical staff in the Department. Continue the fully funded adult pertussis containing vaccine (dTpa booster) for all new parents and carersin the Territory to protect young infants from pertussis.Climate Change Action Plan. Maintain sentinel chicken surveillance, human disease surveillance and mosquito monitoring andsurveillance. Alert the public during risk periods for mosquito borne disease. Carry out mosquito controlaround major population centres, as well as exotic vector exclusion. Support the Top End and Central Australia Falls Prevention Networks to improve delivery and coordinationof falls prevention and management programs.26Department Health and Families