Indigenous Chronic Disease Package
Chronic disease self-management accredited training for staff
- 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
The Australian Government is providing funding for accredited chronic disease self-management training to be provided to 400 existing health workers on how to support and educate their Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander patients so that they can manage their chronic conditions more successfully and live healthy lives while managing their chronic disease.
Training will be available to Aboriginal Health Workers, nurses and other suitably qualified or experienced people who are existing employees of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations, Indigenous health services, general practices, Divisions of General Practice and state and territory government health services working with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.