Australian Primary Care CollaborativesThe Australian Primary Care Collaboratives (APCC) Program is a 3-year initiative funded from the Focus on Prevention - Primary Care Providers Working initiative Phase 2 of the Program commenced in WA in August 2008 delivered to local practices thorough their Division by the Improvement Foundation Australia.
The APCC Program helps general practitioners (GPs) and primary health care providers work together to improve patient clinical outcomes, reduce lifestyle risk factors, help maintain good health for those with chronic and complex conditions and promote a culture of quality improvement in primary health care. Ultimately, the APCC Program aims to find better ways to provide primary health care services to patients through shared learning, peer support, training, education and support systems.
The Collaboratives methodology, designed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in the USA, 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.
The topics to be addressed in the first phases of the Australian Primary Care Collaboratives Program are Diabetes, the Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease, and Improved Accessto primary care.
The Collaborative methodology promotes rapid change, allowing practices to experience the benefits in short time frames. The Collaborative methodology works because it is straightforward, there is hands-on support, and the framework promotes protected time for participants to spend together solving problems as a team.
The Rockingham Kwinana Division of General Practice is proud to be involved in the first wave of the program working with both Port Kennedy and Chisham Medical Centres to achieve improvements in local patient care and access.
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