Quality improvement

There are useful one page QI recipes to assist your practice support enhance patient care. These include: 

• COVID-19 chronic disease management QI recipe
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander QI recipe
• After Death Audit QI recipe
• alcohol intake QI recipe
• patients with cardiac conditions QI recipe
• patients with chronic kidney disease QI recipe
• patients with diabetes QI recipe
• patients with multiple chronic conditions QI recipe
• vaccination management QI recipe
• patients on multiple medications QI recipe
• patients with asthma QI recipe
• patients with COPD QI recipe
• healthy ageing QI recipe.

There are useful models of care, case studies and video vignettes available to help your practice progress towards a Patient Centred Medical Home.

The Advance Care Planning Toolkit provides a practical guide for general practice teams to assist patients to navigate the advanced care planning process. It describes how to successfully implement advance care planning in a practice as a CQI activity, and for PIP QI and CPD purposes. Also read COORDINARE's After Death Audit QI recipe for palliative and end of life care.

Provides useful tools and a plan to help practices review their cancer screening quality and safety. For further support contact your Health Coordination Consultant, or call COORDINARE on 1300 069 002.

We developed a series of webinars and practical tools with University of New England (UNE) Partnerships, to provide general practice with foundation skills and knowledge to write effective tenders and submissions.

The webinars are available at the following links:

• Course introduction
• Module 1 - Writing compelling submissions
• Module 2 - What funding bodies want
• Module 3 - Capacity and credibility

COORDINARE have created a suite of resources to help general practices to develop or strengthen their emergency planning:

PRACTICES WITHOUT A PLAN

• This General Practice Emergency Response Plan Template is in an editable pdf form and is a great starting point for practices who don't yet have a plan.

PRACTICES WANTING TO AUDIT THEIR PLAN

• Our Disaster Planning and Response Checklist is a great tool for practices who already have a plan and want to check if it is as comprehensive as it could be.

PRACTICES WANTING TO GO BEYOND THEIR PLAN

• The General Practice Disaster Management toolkit is a resource for those practices who want to undertake a QI approach to emergency planning, and take their preparedness to the next level.

Provides useful tools and a plan to help practices review their immunisation quality and safety. For further support contact your Health Coordination Consultant, or call COORDINARE on 1300 069 002.

We have developed a new quality improvement toolkit, Living with COVID in the community, which supports general practice to review practice systems in the context of COVID-19 being the new normal and implementing improvements to ensure practices are best placed to provide patients with the right care, at the right time.

The toolkit focuses on four patient management activities including:

• at-risk patients
• managing COVID-19-positive patients and prescribing antiviral therapies
• follow-up of patients after COVID-19 infection
• identification and management of patients with Post COVID-19 or Long COVID. 

A free web-based portal to support health professionals in planning patient care through primary and secondary health care systems across the region.

Visit the ACT and Southern NSW or Illawarra Shoalhaven HealthPathways sites for information relevant to your local area.