EIiCD Community of Practice

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Overview

A Community of Practice (CoP) is defined as ‘a network of members with a common interest sharing information, disseminating learnings and problem solving as a group’.

The Early Intervention in Chronic Disease CoP aims to:

• Share Learning – particularly around implementation of the guidelines and service system redesign
• Identify and discuss common issues and potential solutions
• Promote best practice
• Provide opportunities for communication between services and peer support

It is intended that the agenda will complement existing workforce development activities that key stakeholders are involved in rather than duplicate.

Dates for the Community of Practice in 2009:

• Friday 17 April 2009
• Wednesday 22 July 2009
• Friday 2 October 2009 (Cancelled)

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Presentations and resources to download from the EIiCD Community of Practice.

Wednesday 22 July 2009 - 'Setting the Scene and Dispelling the Myths'

This successful forum brought together representatives from both Early Intervention in Chronic Disease (EIiCD) programs and Hospital Admission Risk Program (HARP) to explore issues of mutual interest.

Setting the scene & Dispelling Myths (329kb, pdf)
Eastern HARP: HARP and Early Intervention in Chronic Disease programs (246kb, pdf)
Partnerships providing better care for patients (246kb, pdf)
Improving the journey for people with type 2 diabetes (161kb, pdf)

Friday 17 April 2009 - 'Change Management and Lean Thinking in the Health Environment'.  

 'Get going and then get better!'  - Facilitated by David Smith from the Australian Continuous Improvement Group, the day focused on the practical application of the lean thinking approach in the health environment, more specifically in the development of the EIiCD initiative and ICDM. A case study from the Peter James Centre illustrated the cultural change arising from their use of the ‘Lean Thinking’ approach and the resulting benefits.

‘A Lean Thinking Approach to Redesigning Care’, J Compton, General Manager of the Peter James Centre (1mb, pdf)
Case study summary for the Peter James Clinic- a companion document to the presentation by J Compton (301kb, pdf)
Copy of selected slides from the presentation on Change & Transition, and Lean in Health service by D Smith (352kb, pdf)
'Disseminating Innovations in Health Care'. By D Berwick. JAMA, April 16, 2003, Vol289, no15.  Berwick has written extensively on the subject of deliberate improvement in health service (163kb, pdf)

Links

1. Institute for healthcare improvement  This is an extensively resourced site and a valuable reference.
2. Victorian Public Sector Continuous Improvement Network
3. Australasian Lean Healthcare Network There are many hospitals and health services using Lean Thinking as an approach in their deliberate improvement efforts. 
4. Insights to Excellence This program is excellent; it provides an opportunity to visit and see the results of effective lean in different industries.
5. Lean Enterprise Institute More history and information.

References

1. 'Leading Change: Why transformation efforts fail'. John Kotter. Harvard Business Review, page 59, March April 1995.

Thursday 30 October 2008 - The use of data to support practice improvement and evaluation

The benefits of using data to make decisions and guide the continuous improvement process required to reorientate the service system to support people with chronic disease were highlighted in presentations from three EIiCD services. A presentation by Anne Markiewizc illustrated the use of program logic to determine evaluation and monitoring requirements.

• Agenda CoP 30 October (45kb, pdf)
• Embedding Monitoring - Bendigo CHS Oct 08 (71kb, pdf)
• Monitoring and evaluation core concepts – A. Markiewicz (315kb, pdf)
• Monitoring and Evaluation Training – A. Markiewicz presentation (809kb, pdf)
• PDSA - Naomi Kubina Presentation _Oct 08 (905kb, pdf)
• Progressing ICDM - Ruth Azzopardi Oct 08 (500kb, pdf)
• The Evaluation Journey- Cardinia Casey CHS (370kb, pdf)

Tuesday 26 February 2008 - Models and approaches supporting cross agency care

• 10 Steps for GP Engagement OR Make it simple (44kb, pdf)
• Chronic disease care – can we do it better? - Presentation by Marie Gill (346kb, pdf)
• Progressing integrated chronic disease management - Presentation by Sylvia Barry (345kb, pdf)
• Key lessons from the EIiCD Community of Practice – February 2008 (24kb, pdf)
• Case Conferences with General Practice - Lessons from the Good Life Club (106kb, pdf)

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