Aboriginal Health National Partnership
Australian Governments have committed $1.57 billion over four years under the National Partnership Agreement on Closing the Gap in Indigenous Health Outcomes - referred to as the Aboriginal Health National Partnership (the Partnership).
The Aboriginal Health National Partnership is centred on the following five priority reform areas:
- Tackling smoking
- Primary health care services that can deliver
- Fixing the gaps and improving the patient journey
- Healthy transition to adulthood
- Making Indigenous health everyone's business.
State-wide Implementation Plan
State governments have developed an implementation plan, which outlines how each jurisdiction will respond to the five priority reform areas under the Partnership.Victorian State-wide Implementation Plan [Word 284.5 kb]
Project Milestones
| Project Milestones |
Key Dates |
| 2009/10 state budget announcement ($47.39 million over four years) | May 2009 |
| Central office steering committee formed |
May 2009 |
| Victoria's state-wide implementation plan endorsed by Government | May 2009 |
| DHS regions commence planning activities | August 2009 |
| Regional priority projects for 2009/10 financial year identified |
August - December 2009 |
| Regional Closing the Health Gap committees formed |
September 2009 |
| Regional implementation plans completed |
December 2009 |
| Regional implementation plans endorsed |
January 2010 |
| Commence roll out of Partnership funding |
January 2010 |
Communications Strategy
The Koori Human Services Branch has developed a communications strategy to support the work being undertaken in regard to the Partnership.
The communications strategy includes a wide range of activities to support the flow of information to Department of Human Services regions and stakeholders including the development of a website, fact sheets, information kits, database of key contacts and media opportunities.
Information will be regularly updated and distributed to key stakeholders involved with the Partnership.
For all communication enquiries, phone (03) 9096 7707.
The Victorian Advisory Council on Koori Health
The Victorian Advisory Council on Koori Health (VACKH) is a tripartite forum between the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation, the Victorian Government Department of Human Services and the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. The principal focus of VACKH is to improve the effectiveness of the health care system for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Victoria.
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