Medicare Locals & Community Services

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Medicare Locals & Community Services

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Medicare Locals & Community Services. Presentation outline. National Health reform – where it all began What do Medicare Locals do? Needs Assessment and Annual Plan – one way we can work together. Where it all began…. National health reform agreement Aug 2011 COAG - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Medicare Locals & Community Services

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Presentation outline• National Health reform –

where it all began

• What do Medicare Locals do?

• Needs Assessment and Annual Plan – one way we can work together

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Where it all began…• National health reform agreement

• Aug 2011 COAG

• Two networks – Medicare Locals and Local Hospital Networks

• In Queensland• Hospital and Health Service (HHS) – 16 regions and

Childrens’• Medicare Locals – 11 across Queensland

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The problem: our complex health system

Source: Parliament of Australia website

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What are Medicare Locals?

• Independent companies limited by guarantee

• Reorient the health system to primary health care

• Regional Primary Health Care Organisations:

• Increasing access to primary health care – identifying gaps

• Coordinating health services (primary and with tertiary)• Population health planning and community engagement

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MLs: Current status and models• 61 all established

• Delivery Models vary

• Membership models vary:• Mainly hybrid individual and

organisational

• Boards – best practice governance • Appointed against a skills matrix – no

single profession dominance rule

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ML Strategic Objectives1. Identify population health service needs

and develop services

2. Integrate and co-ordinate services for the community

3. Support clinicians and service providers

4. Good performance (of initiatives and program delivery)

5. Efficient, accountable & effective governance

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What we all have in common?•Each year we must produce an Annual Plan

•This must be based on a documented Needs Assessment

•The Needs Assessment must demonstrate community consultation and engagement

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Thank you