Delivering Integrated Care

The Sydney Children's Hospitals Network aimed at establishing an integrated oncofertility service providing equitable and timely oncofertility care. The team developed the first public oncofertility service driven by consumer targeted initiatives.

Results show:

• a 63% increase in access to oncofertility care in the last 5 years
• 100% of adolescent and young adult patients received information about fertility risk and options in the last 12 months
• 91% of patients are seen within 24 hours of referral.

The team has successfully developed and lead a change in practice giving all NSW adolescent and young adult cancer patients equitable and timely access to oncofertility care.

The Non-Emergency Patient Transport Reform Project is a single, state-wide service that safely and efficiently transports non-emergency patients. It provides timely and high quality care, frees the NSW Ambulance emergency fleet to provide more incidents of life saving, critical care and assists patient flow. 

HealthShare NSW collaborated with local health districts and NSW Ambulance to develop a service to replace a slow and fragmented system with multiple providers. HealthShare built an equitable, value for money service that partners with NSW Health to integrate into demand and capacity management.

The project uses advanced technology to automatically plan and optimise trips, allowing clinicians to electronically book and track patients’ travel between hospitals, home and aged care. It provides a better service for patients and clinicians, and greater capacity for hospitals and the ambulance service.

The Mental Health First Aid Youth Program aimed at integrating Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) into the everyday business of agencies by training community members to become mental health champions to achieve better outcomes for vulnerable youth. 

Research shows that 75% of mental illnesses manifest before the age of 25 with suicide as the leading cause of death and higher rates in South Eastern Sydney. Eleven organisations and consumers co-designed a capacity-building program to train and support MHFA Instructors to train community ‘champions’ who support young people. 

As a result, 350 'champions' (teachers, coaches, youth workers etc.) were trained in MHFA by instructors from partner organisations. Evaluation indicates a significant increase in 'champion' confidence and skills to support vulnerable youth, with many population groups most at risk reached.