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How HealthPathways works
HealthPathways is designed and written for use during a primary care consultation. Each pathway provides clear and concise guidance for assessing and managing a patient with a particular symptom or condition in primary care. Pathways also include information about making referrals to services in the local health system.
Content is developed collaboratively by general practitioners, hospital clinicians, and a wide range of other health professionals. Each pathway is evidence-informed, but also reflects local reality, and aims to preserve clinical autonomy and patient choice.
The Purpose of HealthPathways: HealthPathways is a tool for information dissemination that supports local clinical best practice and is an enabler for system change within the ACT & SNSW health systems.
Benefit of HealthPathways: Information from a range of clinically relevant sources can be adapted for and consolidated on HealthPathways so that all health professionals can easily access the same information.
Quality Assurance Measure: Pathways are updated regularly and localised based on collaboration between local GPs, specialists, allied health and other health professionals about how conditions are assessed, managed and referred in the ACT and Southern NSW. Clinical pathways are reviewed on a three-yearly cycle by GPs working with HealthPathways and appropriate local subject matter experts.
Established general practitioners: HealthPathways supports established health professionals by providing consolidated knowledge in one place i.e., changing treatment and local referral options for the ACT and SNSW.
Emerging health professionals: HealthPathways supports emerging health professionals orientate to ACT and SNSW health systems by providing a consistent and system-wide tool to inform them about local practices and referral pathways.
Tertiary, outpatient and specialists: The development of pathways on HealthPathways fosters local care pathways, provides clear and locally relevant referral options which can be trusted at the point of care and promotes communication between health services across the ACT and Southern NSW.
Medical, nursing and allied health students: HealthPathways can be utilised as a clinical study tool for information gathering, health knowledge and literacy, local referral options, and as a resource for clinical evidence-based information for future and current learning.
Consumers:
Patient journey: Within a health professional’s scope of practice, HP supports the patient journey in relation to more seamless and appropriate transitions in health care (right care at the right place at the right time by the right person).
People at risk of poor health outcomes: HealthPathways assists health professionals support people at risk of poor health outcomes through the provision of best practice clinical pathways and information and a wide range of holistic clinical and community services/support.