Engaging with primary care and community health

Greater integration with primary care is integral to achieving our vision to improving patient outcomes. A primary care committee has brought together key stakeholders in primary care and provides an opportunity for enhanced primary care collaboration, integration, innovation, communication and leadership. Priority areas have been identified including e-referrals and linkage of data and alignment of current activities across the Partners is underway. …

Data Driven Healthcare Improvement and Infomatics

A Monash Partners data committee across all partners and the PHN’s has held several multi-organisational, multidisciplinary Data forums and priorities have been developed. The group will focus on improving data quality, harmonisation and linkage to optimise and align electronic health and primary care and population health data, enable research and ultimately drive health care improvement. Professor Jim Buttery leads this work. If you would …

Strategic planning process

A key priority over the next six months is developing the strategic plan for Monash Partners. We are partnering with Dr Lewis Atkinson from Haines Centre for Strategic Management with the first step being a half day workshop with the Monash Partners Executive including Theme and Discipline leads held on July 24 to undertake a SWOT analysis, review structure and progress, strategic …

Federal Minister for Health visits Monash Partners

The Hon Greg Hunt MP, Federal Minister for Health visited Monash Partners recently to further show the government’s commitment to bring health services, researchers and educators together to find innovative new solutions for everyday health care challenges. Monash Partners are set to receive $2m investment from the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF). Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt MP and Chisholm federal …

MRFF Roadshow slides

If you missed our Roadshow sessions which provided our health services, clinicians and researchers with information about MRFF and the multiple funding opportunities currently open and forecast, we think we can help. You can find the slides from the Roadshow, HERE. What is the MRFF?  The MRFF is investing to supercharge the growth of our health and medical research, while fuelling …

Surviving critical illness

Increasing numbers of patients are surviving critical illness. These survivors often experience long-term physical, cognitive and mental health impairments known as post-intensive care syndrome. Read about this Monash Partners-funded project.

Accredited Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Training

Monash Partners have recently endorsed a policy to have all involved in interventional clinical research, trained in an accredited ICH GCP research training program. The Partners fund this and it is provided in house at no individual charge, regularly at the AMREP and MHTP and once per year at other partner campuses. This activity is provided by Monash University and …

Monash Partners receives Federal Government investment

In May, the Federal Government announced an investment of AUD $10 million to support rapid transformational research across Australia’s leading AHRTCs accredited by the NHMRC. As part of this formative investment Monash Partners will receive more than AUD $2 million to support translational research projects responsive to needs of communities, health providers and health services to deliver direct clinical benefit. These projects …