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Day One: Wednesday 26th August 2009
| Day One | Day Two |
8.30
Registration and coffee
8.45
Speed networking session
8.55
Opening remarks from the Chair
Bronwyn Wilkinson, Director, CATCH Consulting
THE SUPER CLINIC MODEL
9.00
Working with clinicians and the community to implement the GP Super Clinic model
  • What are the challenges in implementing the Super Clinic Model at a local community?
  • Could the model be sufficiently modified to respond to local needs?
  • Will the model improve access for rural and remote communities?
Vahid Saberi, Executive Director - Population Health, Planning, Research and Performance, North Coast Area Health Service
9.30
The journey to Integrated Primary Care – hurdles to be cleared
  • Assessing the concept of enrolment, the need for community acceptance and competing for patient enrolment numbers
  • Extending the MBS to cover the IPC team and incentivising quality performance
  • Enhancing government participation to strengthen healthcare
Emeritus Professor John Dwyer, UNSW and Founder, Australian Health Care Reform Alliance
10.00
Setting the organisational culture of a GP Superclinic
  • How a GP Superclinic is different from general practice
  • The limitations of GP Superclinics and extra complications of setting up on hospital grounds
  • The composition of the workforce - the role of the GP and new roles within general practice
John Stafford, Project Manager, Moreton Bay General Practice Network
10.30
Building multidisciplinary teams
  • Fostering a sustainable and highly skilled healthcare workforce
  • Ensuring quality of care and accountability in the clinical setting
  • Monitoring the effective integration of multidisciplinary teams
  • Managing the interactions within and between the teams
Justin Beilby, Executive Dean, University of Adelaide Medical School
11.00
Morning tea
11.15
KEYNOTE | Assessing the NHHRC solutions for primary care: scope, relevance, financing and sustainability judged against new directions in other nations
  • Fostering a sustainable and highly skilled healthcare workforce
  • Beyond superclinics: are priorities clearly defined?
  • Expanding the primary care workforce: are pharmacists and self-care in the mix?
  • Dependence on fee-for-service and irrelevant MBS items: what specific building blocks
  • Giving primary carers the tools: what specific priorities for IT connectedness and personal health records?
  • Anticipating the era of personalised medicine: who will pay?
  • The budget constraints in a world recession: do the capital and operational budget numbers add up?
Dr. Paul Gross, Director, Institute of Health Economics and Technology Assessment
HEALTH FUNDING
12.00
Should government provide additional subsidies for GP Super Clinics and the long-term effects on financial sustainability
  • What is the case for and against additional funding?
  • Will the level of funding through government grants be enough?
  • What will happen after the four year cut off date?
  • How will GP super clinics compete for patient numbers?
Jim Butler, Director, Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health
12.30
Luncheon address

Emma Pate, Primary, Aged & Community Care Sales Manager, iSOFT

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PRIVATE SECTOR
1.30
Creating a mix of public and private financing agreements in healthcare provision
  • Increasing strain on the commonwealth healthcare budget and the need for Public Private Partnership arrangements
  • Balancing government spending with private funding to better manage the healthcare system
  • Assessing the costs involved in primary healthcare service provision
Mark Roby, Senior Executive, KPMG Infrastructure and Projects Group
2.00
The role of private health insurance in primary healthcare service provision and the implications for industry viability
  • Dealing with higher demand for health care, rising health costs and increasing private health fund payouts
  • Reviewing the recent boost to premiums and the impact on the cost of private health cover
Mark Fitzgibbon, Chief Executive, NIB Holdings
2.30
CASE STUDY | The Ballan GP Super Clinic – Ballan District Health & Care:
  • The challenges and problems faced by the local community: an ageing population and healthcare provision in a remote area
Glenn Rowbotham, CEO, Ballan District Health & Care
3.00
CASE STUDY | The Redcliffe GP Super Clinic – A partnership between Redcliffe Hospital Foundation and the University of Queensland School of Medicine:
  • Our model and associated issues including sustainability
  • The role of the University of Queensland
Dr. Jared Dart, Director, iHealth Solutions Pty Ltd on behalf of Moreton Bay Integrated Care Centre
Professor David Wilkinson, Dean of Medicine and Head, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland
3.30
Afternoon tea
INNOVATION IN CLINICAL IT
3.45
Improving the primary healthcare system through electronic clinical information technology
  • The role of technology in establishing a nationally connected primary healthcare system
  • Innovation in clinical software and information communication technology equipment: linked datasets and telemedicine
Kate Ebrill, Manager - Business Adoption, National E-Health Transition Authority
PRIMARY HEALTHCARE REDESIGN
4.15
Redesigning the healthcare system and the costs associated with ongoing facility management
  • Designing the super clinic facility and setting design standards
  • Examining the associated costs with building or upgrading the clinics
  • Issues surrounding environmentally sustainable design
Ian Forbes, Director, DesignInc
4.45
PANEL DISCUSSION | Reviewing the NHHRC report on GP Super Clinics
  • Will the clinics play a role in prevention and healthcare promotion?
  • Will the clinics improve the provision of primary health care services?
  • How will super clinics attract clinicians in remote areas?
Dr. Danny Beran, Medical Director, Eastern Suburbs Medical Service, Secretary; Eastern Sydney Division of General Practice; and Board Member; National Association of Medical Deputising Services
John Stafford, Project Manager, Moreton Bay General Practice Network
5.25
Closing remarks from the Chair
5.30
End of conference
 
Day Two: Thursday 27th August 2009
| Day One | Day Two |
8.30
Coffee and networking
8.55
Opening remarks from the Chair
Shannon Nott, President, Rural Allied Health and Medical Society and National Rural and Indigenous Officer, Australian Medical Students' Association
POPULATION HEALTH
9.00
Reviewing the super clinics model and preparing for a new model of care
  • What are the aims of current healthcare reform?
  • How will reform improve accessibility to health care services?
  • Implementing the ‘prevention before cure’ approach
  • Improving primary care to prevent and intervene in chronic illness
Craig Bosworth, Director of Strategy, Healthways International
INTEGRATING PRIMARY HEALTHCARE
9.30
Integration of allied health, community health and general practice services within the primary healthcare system
  • Developing practical solutions to integrate multidisciplinary teams within the clinics
  • Improving the prevention and management of chronic disease in primary healthcare services
Mark Harris, Executive Director, Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, UNSW
10.00
KEYNOTE | Closing the gap between research and clinical practice
  • Reviewing the development of primary healthcare research and its role in clinical practices and/or patient care
  • Exploring the infrastructure needed to be able to conduct research in primary care and the opportunities that will arise from super clinics
Warwick Anderson, CEO, National Health and Medical Research Council
10.30
Morning tea
10.45
Integrating hospital and primary healthcare and the role of doctors in primary care
  • How super clinics work in conjunction with hospitals?
  • How can the relationship be effectively managed?
  • How will the model of ownership for premises work?
  • How will the doctor and GP roles be defined and how will they interact?
Prue Power, Executive Director, Australian Healthcare & Hospitals Association
11.15
Overcoming the separation of oral health from general health and the limitations on access to dental services
  • The scope and impact of dental disease
  • Improving oral health and providing equitable access to dental care
  • Examining the current level of government spending on dental services, and the experience of dental Medicare for people with chronic diseases
  • Examining the Denticare Australia scheme
  • The way forward for oral health in Australia
A/Prof Hans Zoellner, Chairman of the Association for the Promotion of Oral Health (APOH)
11.45
CASE STUDY | The Shellharbour GP Super Clinic – an evangelical approach to workforce retention:
  • The Super Clinic as a model for a sustainable GP workforce
  • Relative arguments for integration at the patient, service provider and the organisational levels
Dr. Andrew Dalley, CEO, Illawarra Division of General Practice
12.15
CASE STUDY | The Geelong GP Super Clinic - General Practioner's Association of Geelong in partnership with Barwon Health:
  • Establishing a Not for Profit Company to deliver the Super Clinic
  • A partnership approach with a Division of General Practice, Health Service, governments and a University
  • Developing a culture of inter professional learning
Jason Trethowan, CEO, General Practitioner’s Association of Geelong
12.45
Lunch
HEALTH WORFORCE
1.45
Potential Nurse Practitioners roles in co-located professional practices?
  • What broader roles will be provided by nurse practitioners within the super clinics?
  • Why nurses shoud be covered by the laws of the Medicare Benefits Scheme
  • Why nurses should be able to make prescriptions under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
Andrew Cashin, Professor of Nursing, School of Health & Human Sciences, Southern Cross University
REMOTE AREA CARE
2.15
Attracting doctors in rural and remote areas with workforce shortages
  • How will Superclinics attract a workforce?
  • What impact will Superclinics have on the rest of the rural and remote health workforce?
Dr. Kim Webber, CEO, Rural Health Workforce Australia
2.45
Afternoon tea
PHARMACY ENGAGEMENT
3.00
Assessing what services could and should be provided by pharmacists in a GP Super Clinic
  • What are the services that could be provided?
  • What do pharmacists want to provide?
  • What do GPs want from pharmacists?
  • What remuneration models exist?
Shane Jackson, Vice President, Pharmaceutical Society of Australia
3.30
Ensuring convenient access to pharmacies in the super clinic localities and assessing the government funding for pharmacists/pharmacy services
  • Issues surrounding relocation rules under the 4th Community Pharmacy Agreement
  • Will the Relocation Incentive payment encourage pharmacists to colocate?
  • Is the level of funding enough?
Paul Sinclair, National Councillor - New South Wales, Pharmacy Guild of Australia
4.00
Closing remarks from the Chair
4.10
End of conference
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