South Coast Health Services Consortium

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South Coast Health Services Consortium

• Towards a collaborative approach to health
  promotion catchment planning.

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What and where is South Coast Health Services
Consortium Primary Care Partnership?

• SCHSC formed as a voluntary consortium prior to
  primary care partnerships.
• a population of approximately 59,600 in the South
  Gippsland and Bass Coast Shire areas and Yarram.
• Covers from Yarram to Koo Wee Rup and from
  Mirboo North to the coast.

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Membership includes

• Full members
• 4 public, acute hospitals 3 of which include
  community and womens health services.
• 1 private hospital.
• 1 stand alone community health service.
• South Gippsland and Bass Coast Shire Councils.
• The Division of General Practice.
• Associate members
• Community care agencies
• A neighbourhood house.
• Mental health services.
• And a local regional sports assembly.

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Staffing

• Kirk Warren Coordinator /Better Health Care in
  Gippsland
• Vicki Bradley Health Promotion Officer / HALS
  project worker (part time)
• Alisha McDonald Falls Prevention Officer /
  administration support (part time)
• Auspiced by the Division of General Practice

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Meetings to support the PCP

• Health Promotion Working Group meets every 2
  months.
• Reports to the PCP Full Members
• Membership includes representatives from full
  membership organisations plus DHS and the
  Gippsland Womens Health Service (Sale)
• Subgroups for health promotion projects

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The current priorities emerge physical
activity, nutrition and social connectedness.

• South Coast Healthy Weight Forum
• Most PCP members and broader community attend and
  promise buy in to addressing the issue of
  overweight and obesity in the SCHSC area.
• Social connectedness?

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Municipal Public Health Plan Process

• The South Coast Health and Well being Partnership
  (PCP and both shires).
• Bass Coast Shires MPHP was endorsed by council
  at its September 05 meeting.
• South Gippsland Shire is expected to endorse
  theirs February 06.

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Planning for 04/06

• September 04
• Strategic planning day.
• Whole day with facilitator to identify priorities
  for current 04/06 plan.
• What is included in each priority and how do the
  priorities connect with each other.
• What do agencies need from the PCP.
• The MPHP scanning document was also used as an
  input for the day.

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Outcomes of the planning day
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Capacity building activities

• Maintenance of hp working group
• Change of subgroups to become more specialised
  and short term eg. Walking submission planning,
  active plus expo planning, food forum planning
• Schools health policy planning workshops (PCP
  wide) in support of agency nutrition intervention
  with individual schools.
• Submission writing workshop for health promotion.
• Nuts on Nutrition canteen managers network (PCP
  wide) meetings aligned to match school / agency
  interventions.
• Make connections between agencies doing similar
  progams to allow for knowledge sharing.
• Planning timetable for 06/09

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What has changed?

• Evaluation planning workshops
• Permanent, stable staff in PCP and agencies who
  are pushing the health promotion message with PCP
  support.
• Shared vision for planning
• Shared vision for sharing skills and resources.
• Based on strong existing trust between agencies
  and PCP.

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MPHP and CHP intersections

• MPHPs only recently
• November 05 a review has been undertaken of the
  Bass Coast Shire MPHP to identify common
  interventions or target groups with the existing
  community health plan.

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Current points of intersection are

• Plan for opportunities and challenges of an aged
  care population.
• Gambling
• Mental health
• Obesity and lack of physical activity
• Oral health
• Community isolation

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Looking forward planning forward

• Survey members to review priority areas.
• Dec 05 - Workshop one to review priority areas
  and review partners.
• Jan 06- Workshop two establish goals, objectives,
  target groups and identify any needs analysis.
• March 06- internal agency meetings to determine
  strategies
• April 06 discussion of agency strategies in
  relation to PCP.
• May 06 draft PCP community health plan
  including strategies circulated.
• June 06 reporting on current plans
• July 06 Integrated health promotion plans
  finalised.
• August 06 PCP CHP finalised.

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• Vicki Bradley
• Health Promotion Officer
• South Coast Health Services Consortium,
• Primary Care Partnership
• Email v.bradley_at_sggp.com.au