❓ The answer outlines the progress of implementing Recommendation 15 of the Health Reform Committee regarding a primary care strategy for Aboriginal people in WA, highlighting challenges with divergent feedback and ongoing efforts to reconcile issues and improve collaboration.
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Implementation of that recommendation was scheduled for the third year of the reform program. An Aboriginal Primary Care Steering Group was established with a range of representatives from WA Health, Aboriginal Community Controlled Sector and the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing (WA Branch) attending and contributing. The completed Strategy document was distributed for comment on the 13 June 2005. A wide range of divergent feedback was received resulting in the development of the WA Aboriginal Primary Care Action Plan. The Action Plan was written as a companion document to the Strategy outlining a series of concrete health outcomes for the Western Australian Aboriginal community. 10 April 2006 a draft copy of the WA Primary Care Action Plan went out for first round consultation to key stakeholders. Feedback from this consultation process was once again diverse and largely irreconcilable. These issues are compounded by the current state of the Aboriginal Community Controlled Sector. The Office of Aboriginal Health is now holding direct discussions with stakeholders across the State in an effort to reconcile the multitude of issues around the strategy and policy documents. While that work is being done, the Commonwealth and State Departments of Health and the Health Reform Implementation Taskforce are collaborating to secure more sustainable primary health care services across Western Australia. These actions will include the Community Controlled sector as well as Divisions of General Practice, WA Country Health Service, and other NGO/private providers. This approach will result in primary health care services, targeted to local needs, being met by a network of local service providers working in collaboration and marks a substantial improvement in Commonwealth-State service collaboration.
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12 September 2006
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Minister for Health
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20 days
Recommendation 15 of the Final Report of the Health Reform Committee states that - A primary care strategy for Aboriginal people should be developed and implemented according to the informed preference of the communities themselves and in collaboration with the Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health in the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. This strategy should emphasise the continued roll out of the Primary Health Care Access Program.
Implementation of that recommendation was scheduled for the third year of the reform program.
An Aboriginal Primary Care Steering Group was established with a range of representatives from WA Health, Aboriginal Community Controlled Sector and the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing (WA Branch) attending and contributing.
The completed Strategy document was distributed for comment on the 13 June 2005. A wide range of divergent feedback was received resulting in the development of the WA Aboriginal Primary Care Action Plan.
The Action Plan was written as a companion document to the Strategy outlining a series of concrete health outcomes for the Western Australian Aboriginal community.
10 April 2006 a draft copy of the WA Primary Care Action Plan went out for first round consultation to key stakeholders.
Feedback from this consultation process was once again diverse and largely irreconcilable. These issues are compounded by the current state of the Aboriginal Community Controlled Sector.
The Office of Aboriginal Health is now holding direct discussions with stakeholders across the State in an effort to reconcile the multitude of issues around the strategy and policy documents.
While that work is being done, the Commonwealth and State Departments of Health and the Health Reform Implementation Taskforce are collaborating to secure more sustainable primary health care services across Western Australia.
These actions will include the Community Controlled sector as well as Divisions of General Practice, WA Country Health Service, and other NGO/private providers.
This approach will result in primary health care services, targeted to local needs, being met by a network of local service providers working in collaboration and marks a substantial improvement in Commonwealth-State service collaboration.
Implementation of that recommendation was scheduled for the third year of the reform program.
An Aboriginal Primary Care Steering Group was established with a range of representatives from WA Health, Aboriginal Community Controlled Sector and the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing (WA Branch) attending and contributing.
The completed Strategy document was distributed for comment on the 13 June 2005. A wide range of divergent feedback was received resulting in the development of the WA Aboriginal Primary Care Action Plan.
The Action Plan was written as a companion document to the Strategy outlining a series of concrete health outcomes for the Western Australian Aboriginal community.
10 April 2006 a draft copy of the WA Primary Care Action Plan went out for first round consultation to key stakeholders.
Feedback from this consultation process was once again diverse and largely irreconcilable. These issues are compounded by the current state of the Aboriginal Community Controlled Sector.
The Office of Aboriginal Health is now holding direct discussions with stakeholders across the State in an effort to reconcile the multitude of issues around the strategy and policy documents.
While that work is being done, the Commonwealth and State Departments of Health and the Health Reform Implementation Taskforce are collaborating to secure more sustainable primary health care services across Western Australia.
These actions will include the Community Controlled sector as well as Divisions of General Practice, WA Country Health Service, and other NGO/private providers.
This approach will result in primary health care services, targeted to local needs, being met by a network of local service providers working in collaboration and marks a substantial improvement in Commonwealth-State service collaboration.
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