Information for practices and Aboriginal Medical Services (AMS) interested in APCC Phase II

Particpation of General Practices and Aborignal Medical Services in the program is through their Division of General Practice. Please contact your to division if you are interested in particpating in the program.

Recruitment of Practices and Aboriginal Medical services in State Waves will take place through the Division approximately 2 - 4 weeks prior to the Wave's Orientation day. Some divisions may take expressions of interest or recruit earlier than this, so please contact your division directly to find out their recruitement process. However should your division plan not to particpate please contact us directly.

The APCC program will use the collaborative methodology to implement change and address three topics Diabetes, the Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease, and Better Access primary care. Please see the following link for an overview of the APCC program phase II and the collaborative methodology to find out more about the methodology that underpins the program.

Benefits to practices

• Support and training in the use QI tools to improve the running of your practice or health service
• Ideas and strategies to improve patient health outcomes
• Ideas and strategies to improve chronic disease management
• Comprehensive support from your Division
  
• Consistent and regular measurement to measure and track improvement
• Opportunity to share and learn ideas with other practices
• Program incentive payment
• QA&CPD points
  
  

Practice Outcomes

• Improved patient care through better management of Diabetes and Coronary Heart Disease
• Increased care through use of information systems (both medical and business systems)
• Changes in service delivery to improve efficiency within general practice
• Increased use of patient self-management plans
• Increased use of protocols and procedures to improve practice operations
• Evolving roles among practice staff to better meet patient demand
• Increased uptake of practice nurses in chronic disease management
• Better relationships with external agencies contributing to patient care (i.e. hospitals and allied health professionals)
• A cultural shift from individual patient care to population based care
• A growing application of the Collaborative methodology within Divisional structures
• Enhanced medical software reporting and functionality (i.e. data cleaning to produce valid registers and reports)

 

Benefits of using the collaborative methodology?

• The collaborative methodology uses knowledge about what already works rather than trying out new ideas through
  research or pilot studies
  
• It uses a change management method that is designed to identify where a change actually leads to an improvement
  
• Changes are tested in small cycles so they are manageable
  
• Changes are measured so that the improvement can be demonstrated