Conference: The power of partnerships - Working together to create healthier communities
17 & 18 November, 2008 - Melbourne

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Overview

The power of partnerships conference will examine the potential that can be unlocked through effective partnerships and explore current and future partnership innovation. So come and tap into the power of partnerships.

Together we can achieve so much more

In cultures all around the world people are confirming one simple and enduring truth: in business, finance and politics, from giant multinationals to kindergarten working bees, more is achieved, more efficiently, and to greater effect, when we work together.

This is particularly so in the case of health systems.

It is the power of partnerships that is keeping our health system healthy. In a context of increasing demand, and increasingly limited resources, partnerships are not simply making the system more efficient; they’re making it better.

Evidence from Australia and overseas clearly demonstrates the value of partnerships in achieving a stronger human services system.

Victoria’s human services system is vast and complex. Thousands of health workers are engaged in a professional environment with standards that are among the highest in the world. And yet they’re only as effective as the next link in the chain. For a system to be truly effective it needs to operate as a whole. It needs to integrate.

Effective partnership isn’t always easy.

It must work across organisational boundaries. Sometimes cultures collide. But it’s worth the effort, because when partnerships work, they build sustainable, well-managed and efficient human services. In short, they can transform a system.

This is the power of partnerships.

Primary Care Partnerships

Over the past eight years, Primary Care Partnerships have focused on building relationships between agencies, services system reform, better coordination of services and integrated approaches to health promotion and chronic disease.

They’re local, they’re linked in, they’re accountable and they’re working. They are creating healthier communities.

Contact

Maria Bahceci (Mon, Wed, Thur)
Primary Health Branch, Department of Human Services
Tel: (61 3) 9096 8994
Email: maria.bahceci@dhs.vic.gov.au

Expressions of interest

Please use the Power of Partnerships conference online form to express your interest in the conference.

This does not automatically register you. Registration forms will be forwarded in the near future.

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