In NSW the Redesign Project Walgan Tilly produced a number of recommendations which in June 2008 led to changes in the way programs for chronic disease in Indigenous Australians was handled.
This means that all existing and new initiatives designed for Aboriginal people with a chronic disease are now under the strategic program direction of Chronic Care for Aboriginal People – CCAP. This portfolio is managed and monitored by the Health Service Performance Improvement Branch with a Memorandum of Understanding with the Centre for Aboriginal Health.
This presentation by James Dunne Assistant State-wide Program Director NSW Health gave at the recent Redesigning Healthcare Summit (held early May in Melbourne) describes the journey. I look forward to a presentation in a few years showing us the improvement