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South Coast Health Services Consortium

South Coast Health Services Consortium. Towards a collaborative approach to health promotion catchment planning. What and where is South Coast Health Services Consortium Primary Care Partnership?. SCHSC formed as a voluntary consortium prior to primary care partnerships.

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South Coast Health Services Consortium

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  1. South Coast Health Services Consortium Towards a collaborative approach to health promotion catchment planning.

  2. 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.

  3. Membership includes • Full members • 4 public, acute hospitals 3 of which include community and women’s 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.

  4. 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

  5. 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 Women’s Health Service (Sale) • Subgroups for health promotion projects

  6. 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?

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

  8. 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. Planning for 04/06

  9. Outcomes of the planning day

  10. 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 manager’s 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

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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

  14. 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.

  15. Vicki Bradley Health Promotion Officer South Coast Health Services Consortium, Primary Care Partnership Email: v.bradley@sggp.com.au

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