Evaluation of the Primary Care Partnership Strategy

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Overview

Evaluation of the Primary Care Partnership Strategy has been conducted to provide the Department of Human Services, Primary Care Partnerships (PCPs) and the sector with information to maximise learning from the reform, to provide a basis for refinement of policy and service development and to determine whether, and to what extent, the PCP Strategy has achieved its objectives.

Evaluation has included:

• AIPC reports on evaluation of the PCP Strategy
• KPMG project to assess the impact of Service Coordination
• Maps of program logic for strategic initiatives of the PCP Strategy
• Information resource about the evaluation of the PCP Strategy.

AIPC reports on evaluation of the PCP Strategy

The Department of Human Services has engaged the Australian Institute of Primary Care at La Trobe University to conduct a series of studies to evaluate the PCP Strategy.

• The most recent report An evaluation of the Primary Care Partnership Strategy, October 2005 presents the 2005 evaluation of the activities of PCPs, including the effects on agencies and consumers, for 2005.
  An evaluation of the Primary Care Partnership Strategy, October 2005 (773kb, pdf)
  Particular attention is given to providing comparative analyses from data collected in 2002 and 2003. Overall, the findings show that, in the last five years, the PCP Strategy has brought about significant integration within the primary health care system and this has resulted in improved coordination of services and more positive experiences for consumers with the health system.
• The Evaluation of the Primary Care Partnership Strategy Report, 3 December 2003 (939kb, pdf) presents an overview of the Evaluation purpose, methodology and the findings and conclusions of this evaluation. In presenting the findings, consideration is given to the previous baseline and interim evaluation reports (which can be accessed at the AIPC website, refinement of the PCP Strategy in 2002, & the current implementation & impact of the PCP Strategy.

The recommendations from this report have largely informed the Primary Care Partnerships Strategic Directions 2004-2006 which outlines the key achievements of the PCP Strategy, the success factors and ongoing challenges.

Please also see attached a summary of the response by DHS to the specific recommendations in the final report of the evaluation of PCP Strategy.

Response by DHS to the specific recommendations in the final report (43kb, pdf).

KPMG project to assess the impact of Service Coordination

Research completed by KPMG looked at the impact of Service Coordination on five community health services and three local government HACC providers. It found that when successfully implemented, Service Coordination delivers benefits to agencies, practitioners and consumers. For more information about what was found, the methodology and KPMG's suggestions on how to progress Service Coordination see the Executive Summary. The full report which includes the case studies of the agencies is also available below.

Executive summary - Analysis of the Impacts of Service Coordination on Service Capacity in the Primary Health Care Sector, November 2004 (74kb, pdf)

Final report - Analysis of the Impacts of Service Coordination on Service Capacity in the Primary Health Care Sector, November 2004 (537kb, pdf)

Maps of Program Logic for strategic initiatives of the PCP Strategy

This document outlines the Program Logic model of identifying change. This is the framework used for the evaluation of the Primary Care Partnership strategy. It recognises that changes in health and wellbeing for consumers are at the end of a chain of inputs, processes and intermediate impacts.

Maps of Program Logic for Strategic Initiatives of the Primary Care Partnership Strategy (96kb, MS Word)

Information resource about the evaluation of the PCP Strategy

This Information Resource provides information about the evaluation of the Primary Care Partnership Strategy. It describes the background to the development of the evaluation, aims and objectives, the framework, and key tasks for the conduct of the evaluation. The primary intended audience for this Information Resource is members of Primary Care Partnerships.

Evaluation of the Primary Care Partnership Strategy (164kb, pdf)

Executive Summary - An evaluation of the Primary Care Partnership Strategy, October 2005 (99kb, pdf)

Contact

Contact information for further queries.