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National Strategies Development 2009. Levinia Crooks ASHM Coordinating the Drafting. Issues to be covered. Important issues for BBVSS Process Expert Writing Reference Groups Timelines S & T Health & Health Ministers’ needs Areas of key interest Additional consultation.
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National Strategies Development 2009 Levinia Crooks ASHM Coordinating the Drafting
Issues to be covered • Important issues for BBVSS • Process • Expert Writing Reference Groups • Timelines • S & T Health & Health Ministers’ needs • Areas of key interest • Additional consultation
Important issues for BBVSS • Commonwealth and State & Territory adoption or endorsement of the strategies • What will be required by Departments, Ministers and advisers and when • Key partner & sector endorsement • What will be required and when
Key deadlines • Next AHMC 11 November • Next AHMAC 8 October • Subsequent AHMC 15 and 16 April 2010
Process • Drafting overseen by MACBBVS • Expert Writing Reference Groups chair and deputy chair from MACBBVS • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sexual Health and Blood Borne Viruses • HIV • Sexually Transmitted Infections • Viral Hepatitis • Five writers
Five Strategies + Summary • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sexual Health and Blood Borne Viruses • Hepatitis B • Hepatitis C • HIV • Sexually Transmitted Infections • Overarching statement (executive summary)
Expert Writing Reference Groups • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander SH & BBV Strategy • Mark Wenitong • Cindy Shannon • HIV • Graham Brown • Andrew Grulich
Expert Writing Reference Groups • Sexually Transmitted Infections • Darren Russell • Marian Pitts • Viral Hepatitis • Bob Batey • Helen McNeil
Writing Group • Levinia Crooks • John Godwin • Jacqui Richmond • Jan Savage • Jack Wallace • Rae Neill - Admin
Project Team • Michael Kidd – Chair MACBBVS • EWRG Chairs and Deputies • Writing Group • Erin Bowen – DoHA
Key Timelines • It is essential to consider any key dates put forward by: • State and Territory Health Departments • NGO Peaks • DoHA has set deadlines for project • Project Team is trying to meet deadlines though there has been considerable delay to start date due in part to swine flu
Consultation – in writing • Initial consultation by 5 Aug (4 Aug HIV) to contribute to first EWRG meetings later submissions will be considered as they come in up to 21 August • Drafts out 1 September feedback to 12 Sept • Revised drafts out 18 September feedback to 30 Sept
Consultation – oral • Telephone conference with each EWRG • Face-to-face meeting with each EWRG • EWRG Chair and Deputy Chair (+/- other members and writers) consultation hearings: • 12th September • Additional dates and locations (particularly to access hard to reach stakeholders)
State & Territory Health needs • This occasion via BBVSS • What will we need to provide to you to background Ministers’? • Do you want to engage Ministerial Advisors, Advisory Committees? • Any other constraints or requirements? • Invitation to participate in any consultations
Advisory or Other Committee? • Is there a Ministerial Advisory Committee structure in your jurisdiction? • When will this group meet, in order to review strategies when would these be required? • Would a briefing be appropriate? • Can you provide dates and contacts • Invitations to consultation on 12th Sept?
Framework for strategies • Each will follow similar form, based on strategies to date • Hepatitis B will follow similar form • All strategies will include issues and priorities for Indigenous Australians • Implementation plans will be referred to in each strategy, as will • Research, responsibilities & monitoring
Priorities • The main work of the EWRG will focus on the establishment to priorities for the strategy and how activity and performance will be measured • This may involve the continued inclusion of some issues from former strategies, the inclusion of new priorities and the reworking or recasting of others
Targets and measures • Careful consideration of high level targets for inclusion in the strategies • The possible inclusion of measurable targets • The possible inclusion of performance targets, aspirational targets & benchmarks • Detailed lower order indicators will be set as part of the implementation process
Brainstorming • Time permitting I would like to consider some brainstorming of: • strengths and weaknesses of the existing strategies • priorities for further exploration
Possible Additional Consults • Darwin – General/ATSI • Cairns – Sexual Health/TSI focus • Port Headland – ATSI/rural and remote • Alice Springs – ATSI/rural and remote • Perth – General • Melbourne – HBV +
National consultation day - DRAFT • Saturday 12 September 2009 • Brisbane Convention Centre • 08:30 – 09:30 Closed hearings • 09:30 – 13:30 Public Consultation Workshops & Panel • 14:00 – 15:30 Closed writing tasks • 15:30 – 17:00 Closed Discussion Full Panel & next steps