Mission, Vision and Strategic Plan

Mission

Leading, Improving and Integrating Health Care through Quality General Practice

Vision

Healthy General Practice and Healthy Gold Coast

Strategic Plan 2008- 2012

 Strategic DirectionStrategies 

 

Enhance practice capacity to coordinate services for prevention, risk factor management and chronic disease management

Implement service models that assist genreal pracice coordiante services

Facilitate improved prevention and early intervention activities

Build on established successes to improve risk factor and chronic disease management

Support general practice to  improve health outcomes through  clinical data analysis

Increase the use of existing clinical data systems for decision making

Investigate and offer data collection tools for an increased range of clinical indicators

Implement systems to sustain long term data collection and reporting

Improve communication between general practices and other health and community service providers

Implement electronic communication between general practice and other health service providers

Lead the development of, and promote, clinical pathways

Facilitate the development of, and access to, community resources

Ensure the structure and capacity of general practice meets the primary health care needs of the Gold Coast population

Understand factors impacting on general practice supply and demand

Implement strategies to manage demand and supply within general practice

Facilitate improved practice and business management systems

Inform Divisional planning by exploring areas of community need.

Provide leadership in primary care partnerships to improve health outcomes

Promote and participate in community needs planning and identification

Implement programs, policies and initiatives to respond to community need

Improve access to primary health care for youth, the aged and other marginalised populations

Partner key stakeholders to identify communities with poor access to srvices

Provide leadership in identifying and initiating opportunities to improve access for identified communities

Involve interested general practices and other providers in developing appropriate responses to improve health outcomes

Advocate within the community for a stronger primary health care sector

Lead partnering in primary health care to influence decision making

Provide a collective voice to general practice to influence change in the community

Engage with policy and decision makers to influence change

Improve engagement with Members

Identify and develop engagement opportunities that achieve positive outcomes

Meet the needs of general practice by delivering customer focussed services

Implement dynamic systems for communication and consultation with general practice