Change Champions

Seminar Aims:
To share information about climate change and its impact in health care service delivery
To show case innovative initiatives, structures, systems and strategies that have reduced the carbon footprint in health care at any level of the organisation, including what worked well and what could have worked better.
To showcase innovations projects that have focussed on reducing the impact of health service delivery on the environment including those that focus on:
o Improving patient care by improving energy efficiency anywhere in/ at any level of the organisation
o Engaging staff, patients and communities in initiatives to address climate change as it relates to health service delivery, now and in the future
o Greening operations at any level of the organisation

Seminar Aims

• To highlight strategies for managing behaviours that affect access to and the delivery of services/care for older people with cognitive impairment, including what works well and what doesn't work so well.
• To showcase patient centred approaches, models of service delivery/care/respite/support, tools and techniques and other innovations that have been proven to be effective in managing behaviours that impact the care of older people with cognitive impairment.
• To demonstrate effective approaches to education and training for healthcare professionals to better enable them to delivery quality care for older people with cognitive impairment with challenging behaviour.

Confirmed invited guests to 8/11/2008. 

Professor David Ames, University of Melbourne Professor of Ageing and Health, Director National Ageing Research Institute, Editor International Psychogeriatrics 

 

Austin Health and Change Champions P/L invite submissions of abstracts to present at the Inaugural International Advance Care Planning Conference.

Seminar Aims:

• Highlight system change required to implement advance care planning
• Identify strategies that work well, are sustainable and are transferable
• Showcase innovative and best practice approaches to advance care planning
• Enable an international audience of health professionals to network, share ideas and issues around advance care planning
• Examine the role of advance care planning in providing quality care for patients and carers
• Provide opportunities for health professionals to improve their communications skills for advance care planning

Audience:

All doctors, nurses, social workers and other health professionals who are involved in end of life care and/or advance care planning and are committed to improving quality of care for patients

Seminar Aims

• Highlight strategies, systems, structures and redesigns that have resulted in improvements in the delivery of services for outpatients
• Showcase models of care/service delivery/clinical practice improvement and other innovations projects with demonstrated outcomes that have resulted in an improvement in the co-ordination services for outpatients at the acute, ambulatory care and primary care interface
• Showcase patient centred approaches to the design, management, co-ordination and delivery of improved services for outpatients