The NEMICS health services, in partnership with primary care and community health services within the North-Eastern metropolitan region, aim to work together to develop an integrated approach to service delivery ensuring appropriate support, information and high level care for all cancer patients.
The Acute Primary Care Interface Service Improvement Facilitator (SIF) is specifically employed at NEMICS to focus on improving working partnerships with the primary care sector in the provision of quality cancer care across the care continuum. The work of SIF includes developing the capacity of NEMICS to engage with the primary care sector and to trial and evaluate a comprehensive series of improvements relating to the acute/general practice interface.
The aims of this role are to ensure that:
- Productive relationships are developed and maintained with acute General Practice Liaison staff, General Practice divisions, members of the primary care sector and consumers;
- Opportunities for collaboration among acute, primary care and consumers are investigated in relation to the provision of a consistent and coordinated approach to enuring quality cancer care;
- A service improvement project is implemented and evaluated, that will focus on improvements in the key areas of:
- Relationships and communication
- Information flow and processes of care
- Education and capacity building
For further information about this NEMICS initiative, please contact
Anna Mascitti, NEMICS Service Improvement Facilitator, or
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In September 2008, in collaboration with the Northern & North East Valley Divisions of General Practice, NEMICS hosted a prostate cancer education session for GPs and practice nurses.
A multidisciplinary team consisting of clinicians & a consumer presented the variety of treatment approaches and relevant supportive care services for patients with prostate cancer.
The following clinicians from Austin and Northern Health were involved:
Owen Niall - Urologist; Ian Davis - Medical Oncologist; Chris Hamilton - Radiation Oncologist; Robyn Bolger - Urology Nurse Consultant, and the consumer representative was Ian Roos.
As part of a take home pack for the participating GPs & practice nurses, a prostate cancer services handout was prepared. The handout informs GPs of the relevant outpatient & supportive care services located within the northern metropolitan region health services for their prostate cancer patients. Click here to view this prostate cancer services handout.
The breast cancer services handout was prepared with the input from relevant staff within Austin, The Northern and the Mercy Hospitals and in collaboration with the NEMICS directorate.
Please click here to view the breast cancer services handout.