The project enables general practitioners with special interests (GPwSI) and advanced allied health practitioners to connect children with suspected, developmental, behavioural and learning difficulties with appropriate "best-fit" services as soon as possible after concerns arise. This is being achieved by providing primary care providers with information about appropriate treatment, care and early intervention pathways, and by centalising the referral, assessment and triage process.
Child Health Integrated Care (CHIC)
Initiative Type
Model of Care
Status
Deliver
Added
Last updated
Summary
Key dates
Jan 2017
Dec 2018
Implementation sites
Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service
Partnerships
Healthcare Improvement Unit, Central Queensland, Wide Bay and Sunshine Coast PHN, GPs
Aim
- Address an increasing service demand through a redesign of referral and triage processes for children with developmental, learning and behavioural issues in the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service (SCHHS).
- Establish a more skilled and knowledgeable local General Practitioner (GP) sector concerning child health issues.
Benefits
- Enhance the capabilities of primary care clinicians to manage the care of children with developmental, behavioural and learning difficulties in the community.
- Increase access to services for patients from hard to reach/ high risk groups.
- Streamline referral pathways for various treatment options for children with behavioural, developmental and learning difficulties.
- Support families in accessing appropriate services for their child.
Background
The Integrated Care Innovation Fund provides financial support to innovative projects that deliver better integration of care, address fragmentation in services and provide high-value healthcare. Funded projects also demonstrate a willingness to embrace and encourage the uptake of new technology alongside the benefits of integrating care and improving communication between health care sectors.
