Metropolitan Clinical Services Planning
Out of the recommendations of the Health Reform Committee’s (HRC) final report, the Government of Western Australia has developed a ten-year health blueprint with a $3.6 billion capital works program for hospitals across the State.
The planning stages for these capital works is underway and to be able to provide hospitals and infrastructure that complement the clinical services that will be delivered in 10 years time, we need to forecast the future models of clinical practice changes that will be occurring over that time. We can then build ‘customised' and flexible hospitals and facilities around the identified clinical needs.The WA Clinical Services Framework 2005 - 2015 (PDF 1.63MB) provided a broad perspective of future demand projections and suggested solutions to those demands.
The Metropolitan Clinical Services Planning process involves converting the HRC recommendations and the Clinical Services Framework into clinical plans that will allow the health system to cope with future clinical demands, budget challenges and workforce issues.
Over the past six months more than 500 metropolitan clinicians from medicine, nursing and allied health represented the interests of their clinical specialty in 40 Working Groups.
The aim was to determine how each specialty / subspecialty would provide clinical care in the future.
A total of 10,000 voluntary hours were committed by the Working Group members to achieve 37 completed reports that focused on the agreed position of their specialty/subspecialty regarding:
- Primary and secondary health prevention
- Contemporary ambulatory and inpatient models of care that
- Reduce tertiary inpatient bed demand
- Keep patients well at home
- Have an emphasis on continuity of patient care across the health care service spectrum
- Workforce – substitution, recruitment and retention
- Worlds best practice
- Innovations and technology that will influence future models of care
- Safety – patient and staff
- Teaching / research
- Co-location of essential services and clinical linkages relevant for architectural consideration.
The 37 individual Working Party discussion reports are accessible via links below.
The reports have been themed to develop a generic position under the following key areas:
- Prevention
- Reducing tertiary admissions / readmissions / LOS
- Continuity of care
- Self management
- Workforce
- Safe environment
- Technology and equipment
- Teaching and research
These documents will form the basis for the North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services' Master Planning.
Publications
- Individual Working Group Discussion Reports
- Metropolitan Clinical Services Planning Generic Themes (PDF 148KB)
- Clinical Services Planning and Implementation Timeframe (PDF 119KB)
- DOH Workforce Challenge Presentation (PDF 131KB)
- Presentation to Working Groups (PDF 275KB)
- Roles and Responsibilities (PDF 156KB)
- Working Group Membership (as at 8 February 2006) (PDF 34KB)
- Working Groups Meeting Schedule (as at 8 February 2006) (PDF 48KB)
Links / Resources
- Best Practice Websites / Articles
- Information Packs for Each Working Group (Clinical Services Masterplans)
File Formats
Some documents for download on this website are in a Portable Document Format (PDF). To read these files you might need to download Adobe® Acrobat Reader.