2009 Teamwork for Better Health Conference

Program Friday 8 May

Future Focus: Setting the scene
RWAV Chief Executive, Claire Austin

Plenary Session:

• The doctor of the future
  Prof Des Gorman - Head of the School of Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences
  University of Auckland
  
  
• The Essentials of Teamwork
  Mr Kevin Sheedy - AFL Legend
  
  
• Closing the Gap
  Dr Mick Adams - Chair of the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO)
  
  
• General Practices as Inter-Professional Communities, the Contributors of the Practice Nurse
  Dr Christine Phillips - Chief Investigator, Australian General Practice Nurses Study
  
  
• Quality Frameworks
  Dr Dale Ford - Principal Clinical Advisor, Improvement Foundation Australia

Be Part of the Team - Professional Development Workshops

Workshop 1: Building Better Relationships in Aboriginal Health
Models for Indigenous Health
Session Chair: Dr Mick Adams

• What skills does a GP need when dealing with aboriginal patients?
  Tina Waru and Tyson Murphy
  
  
• Working with aboriginal health workers
  Shelley Williams
  
  
• Working in an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service
  Rod Jackson
  
  
• Brewarrina NSW - a case study
  Hamish Meldrum

Workshop 2: Working to Our Strengths
Developing the Right Skills Mix
Session Chair: Dr Christine Phillips

• Managing demand through improving practice management
  Christine Fraser
  
  
• Teamwork: an essential element to success of emergency departments
  Rebecca Sedgman
  
  
• Medical recruitment – a quality process means quality outcomes
  Simon Barker
  
  
• VicNet collaboration – the secrets of success
  Pauline Ingham

Workshop 3: Succession Planning
Models to sustain general practice
Session Chair: Judy Nichols
Speaker: Vicky Hayward

Workshop 4: Virtual Teams
Collaboration for Better Health Outcomes
Session Chair: Dr Dale Ford

• Inter-Professional Teamwork – Designing a Clinical Audit Module to affect Diabetes Outcomes
  Daniel Carbone
  
  
• Adventures in team building across disciplines
  Dr David Rodgers
  
  
• Enhancing team-based health care via interprofessional learning
  A/Prof Janice Chester
  
  
• Learning together to work together - student team work for better health
  Megan Davidson

Workshop 5: Act Local - Think Global
Community-Centric Health Models
Session Chair: Mr Bill Newton

• Walwa – An amalgamation to capitalize on skills
  Sandi Grieve
  
  
• The Swan Hill model working in partnership with rural communities for a sustainable rural health workforce
  Ted Rayment
  
  
• Sustaining emergency care in rural hospitals through teamwork
  Elise Sullivan
  
  
• Restarting a birthing service at Seymour Hospital
  Dr Andrew Slutzkin
  
  
• "Dial-off": a non-metropolitan collaboration to enhance delivery of care to renal patients and
  slow or prevent progression to dialysis and decrease mortality
  Dr Martin Knapp