2022 Models of Care to Improve the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Acute Care.
This project, funded by an MRFF grant, is a collaboration with researchers from Menzies and NT Emergency Departments and has 4 project streams.
- Optimise aeromedical retrievals in remote Australia
- Streamline access to more efficient and structured health care, and wrap around support services through case management to a highly disadvantaged patient group with complex care needs who attend the ED frequently.
- Improve the efficiency and effectiveness in acute care through Patient Navigation in the ED for NT adolescents.
4. Understand the causative factors, outcomes and costs associated with missed dialysis to develop a model of care to reduce Emergency Department pressures.