Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Hospital in the Home (pilot)
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Hospital in the Home (pilot)
Through extensive consultation and co-design as part of Your Care Closer, the Alliance has worked with key stakeholders to put together the, "Integrated Hospital in the Home - A Shared Care Model for Hospital in the Home for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in Brisbane North".
Why?
- better health outcomes and experience for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients.
- to improve access to culturally responsive care, closer to home.
- create service capacity by reduced preventable presentations to hospitals, re-admissions to acute hospitals, reduced discharge against medical advice, increased HITH utilisation and fast tracked access to HITH for eligible patients.
- to build on, not duplicated, the existing Metro North HITH Model of Care and Clinical Pathways, and coincide with other strategies to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander HITH in Brisbane North.
Who?
- contractual partnership between Metro North and a Community Controlled Health Service, brokered via the Health Alliance and Brisbane North PHN, to trial a shared care model of HITH.
- the Alliance has contracted the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH) to conduct and deliver the HITH pilot for eligible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients in the region.
- IUIH is leading the co-design of this model, working with the existing Metro North COH HITH and Metro North Health hospital facilities to implement clinical pathways.
Where?
- across Metro North and Brisbane North catchment.
How?
- a GP from IUIH will work with acute HITH teams in Metro North to provide medical care in a patient's home and/or IUIH's primary care settings.
- cultural support will be provided from IUIH Community Liaison Officers and IUIH Connect.
- multiple pathways of entry through ED, Virtual ED, MN wards/service and direct referrals from IUIH GPs.
When?
- six month proof of concept commencing Dec 2021.
- an evaluation completed by the University of Queenslands Poche centre for Indigenous Health and Evaluation Working Group will capture the outcomes at the end of this trial period.
For more information on this project, please email contact@healthalliance.org.au