ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE - NURSING

Program Planning and Evaluation

Program Planning and Evaluation

Introduction

The Australian Primary Care Collaboratives Program is funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing and provides service through the Improvement Foundation Australia. The main purpose of this program is to promote and encourage general medical practices in Australia by delivering quick, measurable, sustainable and systematic development and i9mprovement in the healthcare that they provide to their patients by understanding and using effective implication of quality improvement methods and skills.

The main objective of this program is to maintain the quality of healthcare by bring improvement in clinical practices and outcomes and provide good health to those patients who are suffering from chronic and complicated conditions. This is done by promoting and encouraging quality improvement in primary healthcare sector. It has been observed that more than 600 practices have taken part in the Collaborative from the year 2005 and additional 1000 have been added as the opportunity during the years 2008-2009. The results revealed that there has been an improvement in patient outcome and system of healthcare practices particularly with patients of diabetes, coronary heart disease and the availability of doctors for effective care of patients on time (http://www.wml.org.au, 2012, pp. a1-2).

Goal: the main purpose and goal of the Australian Primary Care Collaboratives Program is to improve the health services by providing access to diabetes and coronary heart patients.

Objectives

Strategies

Indicators of process

Indicators of impact

Data collection methods

1

Plan, organize and apply the assessment process and assessment tools for each network and primary healthcare services, respecting the meaning of these in the context of continuous quality improvement.

The criteria developed for each device, are the result of:

Available evidence, reflection and analysis of professional and as part of technical devices, context program of the Australian Primary Care Collaboratives Program, and the advice of national and international experts.

-arrangement of awareness sessions organized by different social groups.

-Contact the administrative, religious and traditional authorities, so they spread general information about the existence of diabetes, heart diseases and the problems among patients in accessing to care;

- Health personnel assigned the task of organizing awareness sessions among different social groups (children school, groups of villagers, women).

-The goal or objective is to guide the actions required to eliminate certain weaknesses and their causes, without altering the strengths achieved. That is, the improvement plans.

-Improvement plan is a conceptual means and a guide to act as required, to change the current state of system, one of better quality future, retaining strengths.

-Collecting data for measuring the outcome measures include is developing questionnaires including questions that will give a better knowledge about the difference between the pre and post implementation processes.

- Group Interview

- Peer Reviewers

2

Develop assessment reports for each of respondents in the data collection in order to analyse results and findings in terms of quality improvement and access provided to diabetes and heart patients.

-The criteria are defined as quality requirements expected in primary health care users, to meet safety and quality with their expectations and needs and, for the efficient discharge of ...