Our Primary and Community Health Platform steers, champions and enables innovation, integration and partnership between primary providers like GPs, the community and hospital-based-care. Its overall aim is to deliver better health outcomes for our patients.
Historically, the structures of governance and funding within Australia’s health system have made it difficult to build links between the various layers of health services and associated research hubs. Our Primary and Community Health Steering Committee is working to overcome this by bringing together GP liaison officers, academics and clinical leads, along with members of academic primary care, community health and primary health networks.
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