IC4OP Project Management

Organisational Management Arrangements

Lead Agency: Northeast Health Wangaratta (NHW) is the lead agency for the IC4OP network development in the Hume Region. This means NHW takes responsibility for coordinating consortium meetings and facilitating aspects of the local strategy.

Members of the Consortium: Goulburn Valley Health, Wodonga Regional Health Service, Seymour and District Health Service & Northeast Health Wangaratta.

Governance is provided through:

• A Steering Committee comprising the Chief Executive Officers and one senior manager from each health service that meets each six months to oversee and ratify strategic direction; and
• A Working Party comprising three representatives from each participating health service that provides advice and receives strategic direction from the Steering Committee and disseminates and integrates relevant information applicable to each organisation’s catchment area.
• A Web Sub Committee comprising co opted members to plan and project manage the Website development and to support the Web Administrator.

Policy in Action

As a   key  lever  in  delivering  the  policy  Improving  Care  for  Older  People –  a  Policy  for  Health  Services ,  the  Hume  Region Consortium for Improving Care for Older People (IC4OP) will work toward realigning healthcare approaches for people (with a focus  on  older  people)  by promoting a philosophy of  person  centred  care as the fundamental   ethos  underpinning   the delivery of a comprehensive suite of acute, sub-acute services and community services.

The Hume Region IC4OP  has a  vision  of improved  person-centred  care  through  growing  a  greater  understanding  of  the  complexities of older people’s health care needs.

The  emphasis will be on providing  strengthened integration within and between health services and the broader community. This will result in improved transition  for  people  along  the health  care  continuum.

Strategic Approach

In order to improve care for older people and people who have multiple and complex needs, the Hume Region IC4OP is reviewing and modifying strategy in six key platforms.

These are :

• Delivering person-centred care by ensuring the older person is an informed and valued participant in their health care;
• Refocussing  culture,  by recognising the older person as the centre of care;
• Building  best practice  in the care of older people by the use of an evidence  based approach to understand the complexity of their specific health care needs;
• Modifying  environments  ensuring   they  are “older person friendly”;
• Providing  training and development as a catalyst to culture change and a platform for staff training and up skilling;
• Developing  partnerships  and networks  with  and between  health services, with providers and with other IC4OP projects  to  build  strong relationships so that older people experience a continuum of care.