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  • Subsidising PBS medicine co-payments
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  • Supporting primary care providers to coordinate chronic disease management
  • Improving Indigenous participation in health care through chronic disease self management
  • Increasing specialist and allied health follow up care
  • Monitoring and evaluation
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  • Workforce education and training
  • Expanding the outreach and service capacity of Indigenous health services
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Closing the Gap - The Indigenous Chronic Disease Package in 2009-10 - Annual Progress Report on the Australian Government’s contribution to the National Partnership Agreement on Closing the Gap in Indigenous Health Outcomes - November 2010

Monitoring and Evaluation

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It is important that the progress of the Indigenous Chronic Disease Package is monitored closely to ensure its outcomes and intended benefits are achieved.

For this reason, the Package includes a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation component. There are three key elements of this measure; the development of a monitoring and evaluation framework; the sentinel sites project; and the development of a web based reporting system.

Monitoring and evaluation framework

The draft monitoring and evaluation framework was developed in 2009-10, and will be finalised in early 2010-11.

It will guide the ongoing monitoring of activities under the Package as well as the overall evaluation to be undertaken in 2012-13.

The framework will also guide an assessment of the effectiveness of the Package in reducing chronic disease-related morbidity and mortality in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the longer term – beyond the scope of the final Package evaluation to be completed in 2012-13.

It will not only help define the impacts and outcomes of the Package, but also identify the key lessons learned about how to design, manage and implement a complex inter-related package of measures like this one, which is delivered across multiple settings and sectors.

The sentinel sites project

Sentinel sites are a key tool for monitoring the progress of the Indigenous Chronic Disease Package. They are defined geographic areas across Australia that will cover metropolitan, regional and remote areas, and will enable the collection of information regarding the implementation and early outcomes of the Package.

Organisations participating in this project will help to inform the ongoing implementation of the Package, identifying outcomes and providing feedback on any barriers or enablers impacting implementation

Web based reporting system

National Key Performance indicators for Indigenous specific primary health care services are being developed by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, in partnership with state and territory health departments, and in collaboration with the Australian Institute for Health and Welfare.

These indicators are on track for agreement by the Australian Health Ministers in 2011. Development of a web-based reporting system is under way to enable ongoing reporting against these indicators in an efficient, nationally consistent way.

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