Annual Report - Northern Health

Statement of Priorities cont’dVictorian Health Priority Northern Health Strategy Deliverables Status• Implement a StreamingModel of Care in TheNorthern Hospital EmergencyDepartment to improve accessto services and support thetransition to the National 4hrAccess target.• Establish an Acute GeneralSurgical Unit in conjunctionwith the commissioning of thenew operating theatre.• Emergency 4hr AccessRedesign project,• The 4hr Access Redesigninitiative supported theintroduction of a streamingmodel and new visualmanagement systems in theemergency department.The establishment of the AcuteGeneral Surgical Unit.• Plans for the Acute GeneralSurgical Unit have beenincorporated into the newAcute Assessment Unit due toopen on September 2012.Expanding service,workforce and systemcapacityService• Reduce demand for inpatientservices by growing theHospital in The Home (HITH)program for appropriatepatients, at their point ofpresentation.• Implement relevantrecommendations fromthe ‘Future Directions forMaternity Services’ documentto improve choices for womenin maternity care.• Implement any relevantrecommendations from thevarious Consultative Councilsincluding the:o Maternity and Newbornnetwork;o Consultative Council onAnaesthetic Mortality andMorbidity;o Surgical ConsultativeCounci; ando Consultative Council onObstetric and PaediatricMortality and Morbidity.Infrastructure• Commission The NorthernHospital’s new theatrecomplex, endoscopy suite andcardiac catheter laboratory.• Commence design andconstruction planningfor the expansion of TheNorthern Hospital EmergencyDepartment and Special CareNursery.• Revise the business casefor The Northern HospitalRedevelopment project.Service• Report on key outcomesfrom implementationof HITH expansion andrecommendations from‘Future Directions forMaternity Services’Infrastructure• Submit a revised BusinessCase for the Redevelopmentof The Northern Hospital byDecember 2011.• A new respiratory HealthIndependence Program hasbeen implemented reducinginpatient length of stay.• The Future Directions forMaternity Services reviewhas led to the adoption ofguidelines for:o the induction of labour; ando the management of obesityin pregnancy.• We continue to monitorperformance againstConsultative Councilguidelines.• A review of Shared Carematernity models is underway.• A review of the NorthernHealth HITH service is due tobe completed in late 2012.• The Business Case forthe redevelopment of TheNorthern Hospital wasunsuccessful in 2012 anda third Business Case iscurrently being prepared fora funding bid in 2013.38 annual report Northern Health 11/12