Metropolitan Health Strategy

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Metropolitan Health Strategy
Shane Solomon Executive Director Noreen Dowd,
Director, Programs Metropolitan Health Aged
Care Services
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Strategic Directions

• Sets key policy directions
• Increase capacity
• Redistribute and reconfigure capacity
• Service substitution and diversion
• New service models

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Where they live
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The new Casey Hospital
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The new Austin Hospital and Mercy Hospital for
Women
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Super clinics
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New service models

• Cancer
• Mental health
• Paediatrics
• Services for older people

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What the CSF will mean for Brett
Integrated services
Standards and accreditation
Role designation
Links between local cancer care teams and
specialist services
Evidence-based standards for each cancer to
ensure optimal care
Multi-disciplinary treatment and care planning
Mechanisms to measure outcomes against standards
Psychosocial care
Coordination of care through cancer nurse
specialist
Assessment of needs Individualised information
provision Access to specialist care
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Review of Victorian Paediatric Services

• Longer term conditions and increasing frequency
  of developmental, behavioural and psychosocial
  issues
• Multidisciplinary interventions
• Ambulatory or community settings

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Strategic Service Plans

• Creating the future together
• Use system-wide forecasting data
• Address the policy directions
• Respond to planning frameworks
• Respond to community

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Summary

• Policy directions
• Priority areas for service and capital
  development
• Focus on elements to support and enhance service
  delivery
• Framework for individual Metropolitan Health
  Service strategic service plans