GP Plus Practice Nurse Initiative
IF is working in partnership with the Adelaide North East Division of General Practice (ANEDGP), the lead agency funded through SA Health to collaboratively roll out the GP Plus Practice Nurse Initiative with four other metropolitan Divisions of General Practice in Adelaide.
This initiative has been established to support health service teams to utilise their practice nurse in an advanced role as well as educating nurses to use new skills at their practice.
IF has developed a program site within the IF web portal for participating health services to submit monthly data on the four topics being focused on for this initiative:
- Coronary heart disease
- Diabetes
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Coordinated care.
IF also works closely with the five Divisions involved to design and deliver two learning workshops for participants from the 24 health services involved in the initiative.
For more information about the GP Plus Practice Nurse initiative visit www.gpplusnurses.com.au.
Last Updated 09 November 2011
What is the Model for Improvement?
The Model for Improvement provides a framework for developing, testing and implementing changes. It helps to break down a change effort into small, manageable chunks which are then tested to ensure that things are improving and that no effort is wasted. It is always worth remembering that while every improvement is certainly a change, every change is not an improvement.
The Model for Improvement consists of two equal parts; the first part, the “thinking part”, consists of three fundamental questions to guide improvement work:
- What are we trying to accomplish?
- How will we know that a change is an improvement?
- What changes can we make that will result in an improvement?
For more information about the Model for Improvement visit: http://apcc.org.au/about_the_APCC/the_model_for_improvement/
What is the Collaborative Methodology?
Adapted from the Institute of Healthcare Improvement’s Breakthrough Series Collaborative methodology, in the Australian context, the Collaborative methodology is used as a framework for the APCC Program. This methodology has been applied to a wide range of management challenges. Originally applied to healthcare systems in the USA, it has since been adopted in other countries, including the UK, Scotland, Canada and New Zealand.
The Collaborative methodology is proven to be highly effective in achieving large scale systems change and demonstrating measurable outcomes. It provides a generic quality improvement model that can be applied to achieve incremental, rapid and locally relevant improvements across a broad range of clinical and practice business issues.