Indigenous Chronic Disease Package
Patient eligibility diagram
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
4 Department of Health and Ageing. Closing the Gap: Tackling Indigenous Chronic Disease. Canberra:DOHA;2010.
Available at: http://www.health.gov.au/internet/ctg/publishing.nsf/Content/6183E23B7476C13ACA25773D0019F604/$File/Fact%20Sheet%20-%20Information%20Sheet%20for%20General%20Practitioners.pdf