Join us at the Benalla Lakeside Community Centre for the Central Hume Primary Care Partnership Annual Members Forum (AMF) member celebration event.

David Kidd - Director Community Health, Partnerships & Well Ageing, Northeast Health Wangaratta

2018 recipient of The Sir William Kilpatrick Churchill Fellowship to improve the quality of care of older people in our health system - USA

The aim of my Churchill Fellowship was to explore how to improve the quality of care of older people in our health system. To do this I ventured to the United States (US) to explore a framework of care for older people that is evidenced based, causes no harm and aligns with What Matters to the older adult and their family caregivers. Through my exploration of this framework, I learned the essentials from imminent leaders, thinkers and authors of improvement science, implementation science, scaling and sustainability. Combined with lessons in leadership and partnerships, I now have established networks, resources and experience to share and support the improvement of care of older people in our health system.

David will discuss his learning and provide ideas on how to improve the quality of care for older people in our health system.

Dr Claudia Strugnell - Senior Research Fellow, Global Obesity Centre, Deakin University

Claudia is one of the Senior Researchers on the RESPOND Project. RESPOND stands for the Reflective Evidence and Systems Intervention to Prevent Obesity and Non-communicable Disease. RESPOND is all about a shared community response to support healthy children.

The RESPOND project is based on a systems thinking model which acknowledges that things that contribute to our health are often interconnected and occur at the same time.

Systems thinking processes assist communities to identify all the different things that contribute to poor health and consider actions that will lead to healthier communities.

The RESPOND project relies on the insights of the community to identify causes and what they would like to do to improve health outcomes for our children.

Claudia will discuss the outcomes from the first monitoring data collection in the Central Hume catchment.

Janet Symes - House Coordinator, Waminda Community House, Benalla

Janet is the House Coordinator at Waminda Community House. Janet has been instrumental in the coordination of health outreach services attending the Community House on the same day.

Janet will discuss the benefits and the impacts that the coordination of the health outreach services has had on individuals and the community as a whole.

In addition to the formal presentations, there will be the opportunity to learn more about:

The Rural Women’s Health Service Model – Benalla, a Murray PHN funded project undertaken by the Central Hume PCP

The Local Partnership Projects

• Active Alpine – Alpine H&W Partnership

• Project Scope Out – Benalla H&W Partnership

• Youth Mental Health – Mansfield H&W Partnership

• Respect & Equity - Wangaratta H&W Partnership

• Collection of past Partnership projects that have gone beyond their seed funding

To conclude the forum canapes will be served to accompany networking between members. See program for full details.

We look forward to welcoming you to the Central Hume Primary Care Partnership Annual Members Forum.