2006-08 program
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2006-08 Team Photo
2006-08 Fellows with Associate Professor Les Reti, Deputy Chair, Victorian Quality Council
2006-08 Fellows
| Fellow / Health service | Study area | Project title | Project description | Phase 1 travel report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Caroline Byrne South West Healthcare |
Mental Health | Dual diagnosis: f23 January, 2008 | An exploration of innovative service system changes and clinical programs for clients with dual diagnosis. The policy of ‘No Wrong Door’, implemented by the San Francisco Department of Public Health Community Behavioural Health Services, utilising the CCISC (comprehensive, continuous, integrated system of care) model to develop strategies leading to action at multiple levels to enhance service integration and collaboration. |  Dual diagnosis: from early intervention to residential rehabilitation (158kb, pdf) |
 Lucinda Hossack Peter McCallum Cancer Centre |
Chronic disease | Develop, establish and evaluate a comprehensive review program for clients with genetic mutation causing a hereditary cancer syndrome. | Develop an effective mutation-carrier follow-up programme by visiting Familial Cancer Centres worldwide that have successfully established ‘carrier clinics’ that support the complex and ongoing physical and psychological management of individuals and drawing on their experiences to establish the first ‘carrier clinic’ in Australia. | Develop, establish and evaluate a comprehensive review program for clients with genetic mutation causing a hereditary cancer syndrome (389kb, pdf) |
 Karen McLean Royal Children’s Hospital |
Workplace culture; quality & safety in healthcare | Clinical handover: improving junior doctor shift-to-shift handover. | Explore interventions and best models of care worldwide to design and improve the quality of handover processes, provide insight into barriers to handover and explore the important issue of how to provide sustainable change. | Clinical handover: improving junior doctor shift-to-shift handover (266kb, pdf) |
 Penelope Sheehan Royal Women’s Hospital |
Access | A study of postnatal review services in tertiary maternity centres | To provide a therapeutic avenue for women to consolidate their experiences of childbirth and also serve as a quality control and risk assessment system. This area of maternity care has been poorly researched to date and there is little information in the literature on the long-term effects for women experiencing distressing births, the effects on their infants and the best method of treatment. | A study of postnatal review services in tertiary maternity centres (102kb, pdf) |