Our Community and Hospital Integration program is about establishing partnerships within local primary and tertiary health care systems to improve delivery of health care services in the community. These partnerships enable us to work on areas of mutual benefit and raise awareness of each other’s issues across health sectors.

Hospitals

Collaboratives 

• Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital 
• RBWH Women’s and Newborns Service 
• Royal Children’s Hospital 
• The Prince Charles Hospital
• UnitingCare Health (including The Wesley Hospital & St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital)

GP Advisors work with teams (called Collaboratives) of public and private hospitals executive and staff, meeting regularly to progress initiatives that improve communication between hospitals and general practice including referral, discharge and clinical pathways.

Projects and initiatives 

• Specialist Outpatients Project 
• GP education
• eHealth  
  • Enterprise Discharge Summary Project (EDS)
  • eReferral Project 
  • Health Record eXchange 
  • iHealthcare Directory
    
  • GP Register

Primary care

Similarly, Collaboratives with primary health care services within our catchment aim to improve communication between primary care services and general practice and raise awareness of services available and referral pathways.

Primary and community collaboratives 

• Northside Mental Health Service (Servicing TPCH, Redcliffe, Caboolture and Kilcoy) 
• Inner North Brisbane Mental Health Service (Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital) 
• Community Child Health Service (Queensland Health) 
• Primary and Community Health Services (Metro North Health Service District)
  

Initiatives 

• Connecting Healthcare in Communities
• Partners in Mind (mental health) 
• Refugee health
• Indigenous health
• GP education

Last updated: 30 March 2009