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Chronic disease management is one of the 9 key priority areas for CHN. Many of our initiatives reported in our other 8 key priority areas support primary health care professionals or commissioned service providers to help consumers manage chronic disease. You can read about these specific initiatives throughout the Annual Report. Some key examples are below.
a) Commissioned services
- Mental health – CHN commissioned 11 local services to provide mental health programs for Canberrans.
- Integrated Team Care Program – To support local First Nations people with chronic disease, CHN partnered with local organisations to provide care coordination services and funding for certain approved medical equipment and support services for eligible First Nations people.
- Pharmacists in Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACF) – To support people living in RACF, many with chronic disease, CHN commissioned the University of Canberra to trial the Pharmacists in RACF Program.
- ACT Breathlessness Intervention Service trial – To support people living with breathlessness, CHN engaged University of Technology Sydney, Southside Physio and consumers and clinicans to co-design and develop a trial of a Breathlessness Intervention Service in the ACT. CHN commissioned the Southside Physio multi-disciplinary team to deliver the service.
- Healthy ageing grants to support early intervention initiatives to support health ageing and ongoing management of chronic conditions within the community setting.
b) Support for primary health care professionals
- Delivering education to primary health care – CHN’s Education Program aims to increase knowledge, develop clinical skills and enhance the way in which health care is delivered and health professionals are supported. Many events have a chronic disease focus.
- ACT & SNSW HealthPathways – HealthPathways is a web-based clinical tool that provides health professionals with localised and evidence-based pathways, with many chronic disease pathways.
- Providing support to general practice – CHN continued to support general practice, with a key focus on quality improvement.
