Integrating Primary Health Care Service (IPHCS)

Thanks to everyone who have registered for the Webinar on Thursday.  I am looking forward to working with you all on the topic of Community Engagement and its role in the IPHCS Program.  

In preparation for Thursday, as we only have 90 minutes, I have provided some questions for consideration.  If you could read them and have some thoughts ready for Thursday.

My role is to facilitate the discussion.  The webinar is really an opportunity for you all to interact and share your experiences in community engagement. 

I will be providing a session on Community Engagement process planning along with types of engagement tools that are widely used and relate to the type of engagement you may wish to undertake.

I want to thank you in advance for applying some thought to the three questions I have provided as that will ensure we all get the most out of our discussion.

Best Regards

Brenton Chappell

Community Collaborations Manager

Hi all,

As the next session is about knowing your communities, our team are gathering resources in the document library that may be of use and provide a platform for building local (micro) level pictures.  The majority of documents relating to needs and community profiles can be found on https://countrysaphn.com.au/ but we are happy to draw them together for you here. 

There are of course many other sources that inform the evidence including academic papers; we are happy to add recommended papers to the library, particularly if they have influenced your considerations around know your communities or planning services and activities.

See you on Thursday 18 June 2020.

Ali   

We are inviting you, in this space, to make comment on what you would like to see different in the next phase of IPHCS?

Feel free to post any questions here as we will be checking this page over the next few days.

Cheer

Ali

Hi All - I've posted a quick poll to find out which date time works best for the group; please encourage others in your organisation who have access the the IPHCS community to complete the poll too.

We have also posted an audio recording of the Session 1 webinar Context and Funding.  

In the next webinar 'Knowing your communities' there will be a short presentation on data and our facilitator, Brenton Chappell will lead discussion on engaging with local communities. 

This session is geared towards learning from each other in understanding the meso and micro levels and how we apply this to planning and action.

I'm looking forward to some meaty discussion where I won't be doing much of the talking 😊

Hi All

just thought I would share results of our last survey

have a great weekend

Hi All,

An evaluation process will take place for IPHCS Tendered services covering 10 regions in country SA that have populations of 5000 or less for the contract period.  The evaluation excludes IPHCS services provided in remote and very remote.  

We welcome the highly experienced IPHCS Evaluation team who's membership is drawn from the University of SA, Department of Rural Health and Adelaide University Rural Clinical School.

This discussion stream is available for interaction between the Evaluation Team and you, the Service Providers.

Following on from the first IPHCS Evaluation Reference Group (ERG), we're looking forward to some robust discussion.  Don't be afraid to have a say.

Cheers 

Ali