Indigenous Chronic Disease Package
Indigenous Health Project Officers: A resource for General Practices and Indigenous Health Services
Table of contents
- Improve your Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients’ health
- GP and Patient Journey flowchart
How to participate in this program- Registering your practice/service for the PIP Indigenous Health Incentive
- Registering your eligible patients for the PBS Co-payment measure
- Cultural awareness training: who needs it?
- Defining ‘chronic disease’ and ‘at risk’
- Identifying and signing up eligible patients
- Specialist Outreach Programs and Care Coordination
- Indigenous Health Project Officers: A resource for General Practices and Indigenous Health Services
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Outreach Workers
- Chronic disease self-management accredited training for staff
- National Tackling Smoking Workforce
- Healthy Lifestyle Workers
- MBS Item numbers for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services
- General restrictions
Indigenous Health Project Officers work in most state-based organisations, Divisions of General Practice and National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) Affiliates to:
- improve the capacity of mainstream primary care providers to deliver culturally sensitive services to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people (including through cultural awareness training, quality improvement, health promotion and education and Indigenous liaison);
- increase the uptake of Indigenous specific MBS items including Indigenous health assessments and follow up items;
- increase awareness of the initiatives being provided through the Indigenous Chronic Disease Package;
- help the community, mainstream primary care providers and Indigenous Health Services to work together to improve health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; and
- support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Outreach Workers.