CWDGP supports practices who are involved in the Australian Primary Care Collaboratives Program (APCC).
The APCC program provides a framework for a co-ordinated and team-based approach to general practice improvement, particularly in the areas of diabetes and coronary heart disease (CHD), as well as access and care redesign for patients.
Benefits of Participation
- The collaborative methodology uses knowledge about what already works rather than trying out new ideas through research or pilot studies.
- It uses a change management method that is designed to identify where a change actually leads to an improvement.
- Changes are tested in small cycles so they are manageable.
- Changes are measured so that the improvement can be demonstrated.
Benefits to Practices
Just think of the kind of improvements you’d like to make, such as:
- Improved health outcomes for patients with diabetes and CHD
- Doctors running on time
- Accurate and up-to-date patient registers
- Improved team based culture within the practice
- Doctors being available at short notice
- Patients receiving best standard of care possible
- Improved GP and staff morale
By applying the user-friendly 'Model for Improvement', teamed with local, hands-on support, you’ll be able to implement change in small manageable cycles and identify where change actually leads to improvement. The good thing is, the Program’s quality improvement methods and skills have already been tried and tested in over 800 Australian general practices, so you can be sure they work.
While your practice may not be involved in the "formal" collaboratives program CWDGP can assist your practice to implement some of the changes that have worked for those practices fortunate enough to have been involved. Ask your liaison officer how your practice can get started today!