Our higher purpose
Healthy
people
Healthy communities
Our values
Access
through equity
Service without prejudice
Commitment to excellence
Collaborative partnerships
Uniqueness of the individual
The Hills Mallee Southern Regional Diabetes Program seeks to promote health and wellbeing by :-
- Offering services across the spectrum of activities, including health promotion, early identification and intervention, management and education.
- Ensuring services reach at risk groups, especially the Aboriginal population
- Encouraging capacity building
- Empowering consumers to manage their diabetes
- Ensuring consumers receive prompt, effective treatment for diabetes
- Ensuring adequate funding is available to maintain optimum level of care
- Maintain best practice,
- Through continuous quality improvement
- Maintaining professional development
- Maintaining optimum communication and collaboration
- Ensuring all health professionals feel supported and confident in their role, and celebrate their involvement in the program
- Promoting the TEAM approach (Together Everyone Achieves More)
STRATEGIES
The Hills Mallee Southern Regional Diabetes Program has increased the number of Diabetes Nurse Educators, Dietitians and Podiatrists throughout the region, and some areas in the region are receiving their services for the first time.
These staff seek opportunities to promote health and prevent illness, through:-
- Community awareness programs/activities.
- Building partnerships between people across the community
- Promoting self care
- Educating clients and carers to enable them to make healthy choices
- Early identification and intervention strategies
- Pamphlets and newsletters are produced to promote healthy living choices
- Support groups are active in each region
- Activities such as cooking demonstrations and supermarket tours
- Exercise and activity groups are encouraged, and plans are being developed to hold these on a regular basis
- Local general practitioners regularly attend group meetings, as guest speakers, to give health information, and discuss health issues.
- The diabetes team attend community events, such as:
- Field and farm days
- Local shows
- Local group meetings
- Displaying health information in strategic areas
- Plan campaigns around specific dates, such as Diabetes Week, World Diabetes Day, World No Tobacco Day, Walk To Cure.
- Community events are promoted in the local media, where information about healthy living choices is broadcast.
- Allied Health staff have made approaches to industries in their area to carry out screening and educations session in the workplace
CARE DELIVERY SYSTEMS
The Hills Mallee Southern Diabetes Team uses the TEAM (Together Each Achieves More) approach, working with the community member, General Practitioners, Diabetes Nurse Educators, Dietitians, Podiatrists and other specialist health workers, to promote health and wellbeing.
The Diabetes Team welcome opportunities to talk to community groups and individuals about diabetes management and prevention.
One-to-one appointments can be organised with any of the health workers.
Diabetes Review Clinics. The General Practitioner can book people into these clinics. The Diabetes Nurse Educator, Dietitian, and Podiatrist, in the same venue, review the person on the same day. The clinic takes about 2 hours.
Case conferences. These can be organised by the General Practitioner, and usually involve all the people involved in caring for the person with diabetes. A case conference always follows the Diabetes Review Clinic.
A Care Plan is developed during the Diabetes Review Clinic and case conference. The General Practitioner also designs care plans for people, with input from the care workers.
Client Health Record. The people attending Diabetes Review Clinics are given a Client Health Record. This booklet contains a copy of the care plan, and medical history
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