Day 1 Agenda
Wednesday 28th March, 2012
8:30
Registration and coffee
9:00
Welcome to Country
9:10
Welcome remarks from the Chair

Chris Fox
Chief Executive Officer
Central Bayside Community Health Services
Assessing the landscape of primary health care
9:20
Opening Address: An overview of the reform process
  • Improving planning and purchasing to create integrated primary health teams
  • Connecting private and public primary healthcare
  • Addressing equity and closing the gap

Rod Wilson
Former Chief Executive Officer
Inner East Community Health Service
Providing critical resources to meet community needs
10:00
Case Study: The GP Super Clinic program objectives in practice: A critical reflection
  • The health systems response to these objectives
  • The feasibility and applicability of their objectives
  • Multidisciplinary chronic disease pathways

Glenn Rowbotham
Chief Executive Officer
Ballan District Health and Care
10:40
Morning tea
11:10
How the primary health continuum functions from a remote setting through to secondary and tertiary health care
  • Providing the Indigenous community the services they need
  • Communicating with various community and state organisations to overcome cross border issues

Brett Cowling
Chief Executive Officer, Health Services
Ngaanyatjarra Health Service
11:50
Taking medical education out into the community
  • Providing students with a learning opportunity whilst adding value to the community
  • Engaging students in general practice and aged care facilities
  • Understanding the patient journey

Professor Christine McMenamin
Director Curriculum Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Monash University
12:30
Networking Lunch
Engaging and integrating health service providers
1:30
Providing integrated & coordinated healthcare to the residents of South Australia through GP Plus Strategies
  • Successfully managing hospital growth
  • Understanding hospital demand
  • Links to Medicare Locals and general practice

Sinéad O’Brien
Executive Director, Statewide Service Strategy
SA Health
2:10
Ensuring the integration of dental health within primary health care
  • The relationship between dental health and chronic disease
  • Examining the importance of including dentistry in the Medicare benefits scheme
  • The impact that dental health insurance would have on the public sector

Associate Professor Hans Zoellner
Head of Oral Pathology
University of Sydney
2:50
Afternoon tea
3:20
Working with Medicare Locals to enhance primary health care services
  • How GP clinics can help Medicare Locals reach their objectives

Di O’Halloran
Chair
Western Sydney Medicare Local
4:00
How community based health providers can work with Medicare Locals to achieve integrated care

Chris Fox
Chief Executive Officer
Central Bayside Community Health Services
4:40
Panel Discussion: Filling the gaps amongst various stakeholders in integrated primary health care
  • Medicare Locals, local health districts, GP Super Clinics, general practices and community health service providers working together

Glenn Rowbotham
Chief Executive Officer
Ballan District Health and Care

Sinéad O’Brien
Executive Director, Statewide Service Strategy
SA Health

Chris Fox
Chief Executive Officer
Central Bayside Community Health Services

Associate Professor Hans Zoellner
Head of Oral Pathology
University of Sydney
5:20
Closing remarks from the Chair & close of day one
Day 2 Agenda
Thursday 29th March, 2012
8:30
Welcome and coffee
9:00
Welcome remarks from the Chair

Professor Richard Reed
Head, Discipline of General Practice
Flinders University
9:10
Keynote: Saving lives and relieving suffering in general practice: how we will recover our central mission within the new structures
  • The new structures of super clinics and Medicare Locals are grand opportunities for general practice
  • We have done well and with determination we can do even better

Professor Stephen Leeder AO
Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy
University of Sydney
Ensuring efficiency in a GP Super Clinic
9:50
Getting a GP Super Clinic up & running on budget and on time
  • Interacting with the government
  • Working with multiple teams and project managers

Dr Garry Taylor
Chief Executive Officer
Adelaide Unicare
10:30
Morning tea
11:00
How to use information technology to improve practice efficiency
  • Implementing telehealth consultations into a normal work day
  • Getting maximum benefit for your patient, technology and specialist involvement
  • Improving the patient journey through the health system while creating an attractive workplace for staff
  • Maximising the use of technology to minimise the workload of reception and staff

Dr Calin Pava
Principal
Devonport GP Super Clinic.
11:40
Running a community owned not for profit GP Super Clinic in an isolated rural community
  • Social determinants of health
  • Socioeconomic issues
  • Community engagement
  • Overcoming staff sourcing issues

Dr Grahame Deane
Director
Gunnedah Rural Health
12:20
Networking Lunch
1:20
Panel Discussion: How to create a patient centric model while remaining financially viable

Dr Calin Pava
Principal
Devonport GP Super Clinic.

Dr Garry Taylor
Chief Executive Officer
Adelaide Unicare

Megan Somerville
General Manager
Kardinia Health
Effective models for multidisciplinary care
2:00
Allied health modelling & integration
  • Employment vs. fee for service model
  • Role of chronic disease management nurse in a multidisciplinary team
  • Communicating care with public allied health and community health services

Megan Somerville
General Manager
Kardinia Health
2:10
Afternoon tea
3:10
Coordinating & integrating care for people with complex chronic disease: Achieving the triple aim
  • Looking at innovative ways to improve care coordination in primary care settings
  • Opportunities for improving integration of care between the hospital and the community sector
  • Methods of improving patient-centred care so that patients are more empowered to manage their own health care

Professor Richard Reed
Head, Discipline of General Practice
Flinders University
3:50
Case Study: Offering public interdisciplinary services
  • Hospital Admission Risk Program and early intervention programs

Dr Ray Moore
Clinical Director
Bendigo Primary Care Centre
4:30
Case Study: Overview of the first public nurse led walk in centre
  • Goals achieved and challenges remaining
  • Strategies for the future

Naree Stanton
Assistant Director of Nursing ACT Health Walk-in Centre
ACT Health
5:10
Closing remarks from the Chair & close of conference
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