Welcome to the April 2009 edition of ARCHI Net News
ARCHI has been busy collaborating this month, with our events team working on the Medical Assessment Unit Workshop, and the web team bringing you the comprehensive resources of the NSW Health Mental Health Redesign Program.
We want to hear how your program or project is contributing to improved healthcare delivery.
Happy reading from the ARCHI Team!
In this issue...
Mental Health Redesign
The Mental Health Redesign Project aims to identify solutions to enable adult mental health clients to have:
- equitable and timely access to effective and appropriate emergency care across NSW,
- achieve Access Block benchmarks for mental health clients presenting at ED,
- improved access to, and better quality of care provided for adult community mental health clients.
There are 5 key themes of Solution Design: Streamlining consumer care, Improving flow, Improving quality and service, Increasing service capacity, and Leadership and management.
Medical Assessment Unit Workshop April 2009
The Medical Assessment Unit (MAU) workshop focused on Medical, Nursing, Allied Health & Patient Flow issues and future directions of MAUs in NSW. Papers presented include:
- What makes a MAU work? What have we learnt? - Dr Tim Smyth
- Medical Staffing in the MAU - Dr Grant Pickard
- HOPE - OPERA: Model of Care and Linkages with ED - Dr Peter Landau
Can You Help?
ARCHI runs an enquiry service for members, where we tap into the fabulous resource that is the knowledge, expertise and experience of our membership. Below are the current questions:
- Are you interested in working cooperatively on auditing MPS and small sites against Equip and Aged Care standards? One of our members is doing this and developing resources to support HSMs and she is keen to talk to others working in this area.
If you can help, or want to ask a question of your own, contact Catherine Knight, ARCHI Content Support Manager, admin@archi.net.au Phone: (02) 4926 7992.
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