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Almost 50% of Australians have a chronic health condition. Our health system is at breaking point. Bulk billing is almost non-existent. Hospital emergency departments are overwhelmed. There's a shortage of doctors, nurses and specialists. The current approach is not working. It’s time to take a long-term perspective, which means having a conversation about root causes and preventative health. We need to start making decisions that go beyond the election cycle. #INDforCBR #auspol #ACTelection #canberra 👉🏻 https://lnkd.in/g9iNRBb6

We’re back in action after a rejuvenating bank holiday weekend. Let's take a look at what #ECHO sessions we have coming up this week: LeDeR Health Passports: Streamline the process for creating and updating health passports, ensuring accurate and accessible information for vulnerable individuals. 📋🔒 ReSPECT: Dive into the ReSPECT framework, empowering patients and healthcare professionals to make informed decisions about their care preferences. This session is aimed at those that work in the Ambulance Service, who engage and transport patients to the hospital. Palliative Care for Adult Social Care: Explore compassionate approaches to support individuals and their families during challenging times. #MovingKnowledgeNotPeople #HealthcareEducation

Families and health professionals in Queensland can now access the new Paediatric Statement of Choices, specifically designed for children and young people ✨ This values-based advance care planning document can guide or inform those making health care decisions on behalf of a child or young person who is unable to do so themselves. Visit mycaremychoices.com.au and click 👉 Advance care planning resources to access the resource. #Palliativecare #Palliativecareqld #MattersOfLifeAndDeath #AdvanceCarePlanning

The footage below was filmed and produced as part of The National Autistic Society’s Young Ambassador campaign - 'An NHS fit for Autistic People.' This campaign highlights the difficulties they, like many autistic people, face when they simply need healthcare. This campaign was planned, created and led by The National Autistic Society Young Ambassadors to close the #AutismHealthGap Pledge your support by clicking on this link to help demand action: https://lnkd.in/ecgfgQ8i As a Young Ambassador, I produced and filmed the official campaign video, that aims to tell a story on what the new Government should understand about autistic healthcare experiences and why they should work with autistic people to create an accessible NHS fit 🎥 #campaign #autism #healthcare #action #call #marketing #video #accessibility #storytelling #interview

Healthy Futures: How a Modernised Canada Health Act Can Support Equitable and Sustainable Healthcare Systems for Children Colleen M. Flood - FRSC, FCAHS, SJD Canada Health Act Principles: Public administration Accessibility Comprehensiveness Universality Portability “Public coverage of nothing … is still nothing.” with CAPN - Canadian Association of Paediatric Nurses and Children's Healthcare Canada at #ChildHealthCan2024

We can see why young adults are choosing urgent care over primary care, now it's a matter of implementing strategies that connect them with the consistent care they need. Urgent care is a great resource, but it doesn't cover all the bases. As we age, relying on emergency services isn't a sustainable choice. I want young people to develop healthy habits that last the rest of their lives. These tips will help us set them down the right path. https://lnkd.in/gx39hVUD #lowertotalcostofcare #PrimaryCare #untiedHealthcare #YoungAdults

Once we move care upstream into the community, it will eventually reduce avoidable hospital admissions and health complications. Many admissions today result in prolonged stays and delayed discharges which impacts negatively on patients’ wellbeing and deepens pressures on healthcare systems. People with intellectual disabilities should be offered holistic support at home ranging from accommodation, employment, food assistance which promotes independence and ownership with the help of link workers and care coordinators. This can be further supported by annual health checks in primary care to ensure we are focusing on prevention. It does require heavy investment from the beginning and our move away from ‘sick care’. The immediate benefits may not be apparent but the eventual outcomes will benefit everyone in the long run.

💰 Is your hospital losing money to social admissions? A "social admission" refers to situations in which individuals are admitted to a hospital primarily for non-medical reasons, such as custodial care or wanting to avoid personal challenges. These admissions come with challenges, particularly in the realm of #Medicare coverage and #reimbursement. 🔑 For admitting clinicians, the key lies in distinguishing between genuine medical necessity and social admissions to ensure proper reimbursement for their hospital while providing appropriate care to patients. We wrote an article to help clinicians better navigate the complexities of #SocialAdmissions and #MedicalNecessity. Check it out: https://lnkd.in/efRg9DvK

My first report with RCPCH Wales🎉 ⭐"I entirely support the recommendations made" Children's Commissioner for Wales ⭐"It's not very often you get reports that say this is what we think could be done to make things better" BBC Radio Wales 20.02.24 David Grundy presenter ⭐"It's very constructive and helpful" BBC Radio Wales 20.02.24, Marcus Longley, Professor of Applied Health Policy (University of South Wales) Proud to have launched the report with the RCPCH Wales Officer, Deputies and RCPCH&US colleagues at the Senedd on Tuesday. Nearly a third of Members of the Senedd attending to hear how we can improve child health outcomes in Wales so children, young people and their families aren't left #WorriedAndWaiting. When I started planning this report with the RCPCH team we had grand plans. We were going to cut the data in all sorts of different ways: track it across primary care, therapies, mental health and surgery, examine integrity and make various comparisons with postcode, staffing levels and across health boards. But frankly, there isn’t the data. It is not accessible and potentially not collated. A story we're all too familiar with, and why improving data quality is one of our report's recommendations. That's not to say this report didn't find anything. It did. It found trends and shows the unsustainable pressures paediatric services are under in Wales, with thousands of children waiting, and waiting longer, for treatment. Read the report and recommendation below👇

I believe that community health workers ( or similar actors) at the grassroot level are the most important vehicles to reduce the disease burden. It is not the highly educated doctors or nurses that contribute most to the reduction of diseases in the community. It is the community health workers that help to prevent most cases of diseases. If not them, the hospital would flooded with patients. They can be easily trained, they can reach remote areas, make people aware of the diseases, they can connect community people with health centers and most importantly they need low resources. Doctors are important for treating diseases. But education of a doctor requires longer time and good education system. Also, sometimes, they cannot reach the remote areas as they are mostly centered in the health centers. Therefore, efforts can be made to increase the numbers of community health workers for full coverage, providing training to equip them with knowledge and support from the existing health system or other steps for motivation. -Plabon Sarkar #opinion #healthcare