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Access to specialist outpatient services are critical for the health of the Gold Coast community. The current inefficient and slow bookings and referrals systems at outpatient services has led the...

cpc

Clinical Prioritisation Criteria (CPC), implemented as a key component of the Government’s Specialist Outpatient Strategy, are clinical decision support tools that help ensure patients referred...

older-persons-surgery-assessment

Health systems in Australia and worldwide have been required to develop models of care which improve patient outcomes and satisfaction while reducing associated costs. These pressures are further...

breast-cancer-mater

The Statewide Oncoplastics Breast Reconstruction Initiative will determine the next steps in the surgical management of a person with breast cancer. Learnings and deliverables from the current...

dac

A new Direct Access Colonoscopy model is helping suitable patients on the Gold Coast access their procedure quicker by eliminating an unnecessary visit to the hospital for assessment. The new...

ent-remote-rural

ENT outreach will be offered by a team, led by an Ear Health educator (nursing or allied health) with an Ear Health clinician (Indigenous Health worker or nursing) to deliver face-to-face consults...

bariatric

Queensland Health has launched an initiative where people with obesity and poorly controlled type 2 diabetes who are aged 18-65 and are currently receiving public hospital specialist treatment for...

quick-early

This model introduces a number of health professionals into the current Developmental and Behavioural Paediatrics Pathway of Care to aid the paediatrician in the diagnosis, and ongoing management...

ophthalmology-redesign

The project is a 12 month program to implement alternate clinical ophthalmic pathways utilising skills of Optometrist, Nurse Practitioner / Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC) and Orthoptists.

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slam

It is proposed that patients with non-melanoma head and neck cancers, likely to need minor surgery with a low perioperative risk, can have the time spent waiting for surgery and the number of...

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