Our aims and priorities are to:

• Develop a collective vision around enhanced collaboration and integration across the continuum of care
• Align around strategic priorities and commonalities
• Identify opportunities to scale up innovation and the implementation of evidence into practice
• Engage with the Monash Partners Data Committee around opportunities to improve data linkage across the continuum of care at both a systems level and through exemplar projects
• Communicate and promote the agreed vision and priorities to the Partner organisations
• Co-develop and support implementation of strategies to deliver on the collective vision
• Facilitate strong collaborative links with relevant bodies and initiatives including at a National and State level including via the Australian Health Research Alliance, with consumers, community, researchers and health professionals.

The Platform is led by

Professor Grant Russell

Professor Grant Russell is a primary care clinician and health services researcher. He is the Professor of Primary Care Research and Director of the Southern Academic Primary Care Research Unit (SAPCRU) within the Department of General Practice at Monash University.

The Primary and Community Health Steering Committee brings together researchers, specialists and clinicians from across Monash Partners. They include:

• Professor Grant Russell (Lead)
• Mr Daniel Alizzi
• Mr James Campbell
• Mr Iain Edwards
• Dr Penny Gaskell
• Ms Cinzia Theobald
• Mr Alice Urban
• Ms Alison Johnson
• Dr Angela Jones
• Ms Cathie Pigott
• Dr John Ashfield
• Mr George Robinson

Monash Partners is proud to support the following projects within this Platform:

Strengthening mental health capacity and service integration in primary postnatal care in Victoria
Dr Heather Rowe

Practice-based research network – a platform for designing, translating and implementing evidence informed care in primary health care
Professor Grant Russell

Bringing the clinic to the people: “Pop-Up” primary health care in south-east Melbourne
Professor Grant Russell

Bridging the communication gap between primary care providers and aged care residents to minimise preventable ED admissions
Professor Terence Haines

Reducing the evidence practice gap in preventing rehospitalisation and recurrences following stroke
Professor Amanda Thrift

Scaling up a health broker intervention to improve access to primary care for vulnerable patients
Professor Grant Russell

Identifying the determinants of narcotic and radiological imaging overuse for low back pain in community-based women
Associate Professor Donna Urquhart

EMPOWR (Evaluating Mental health and Perinatal Outcomes in Women of Refugee background)
Associate Professor Jacqueline Boyle

Towards integrated care: improving patient and frontline staff engagement and experience of ambulatory care referral and communication processes
Ms Tracy Robinson

Using data linkage between general practice and acute care settings to reduce avoidable hospitalization in vulnerable groups including the elderly
Professor Danielle Mazza