Indigenous Chronic Disease Package
GP and Patient Journey flowchart
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
- Department of Health and Ageing 2010. MBSOnline: Canberra: DOHA; 2012. Available at: www.health.gov.au/mbsonline
- Department of Health and Ageing 2010. Practice Incentives Program Indigenous Health Incentive Guidelines, March2010