Change Champions

Policy Think Tank and Seminar Aims:

Policy Think Tank

The AHHA is your voice in public healthcare.  We are the only national organisation representing the public health care sector across the continuum of care, including oral health.  The AHHA’s key role, in consultation with members, is to develop and advocate for national policies which advance the best interests of the public healthcare sector and those seeking care within it.  We are renowned for bringing together an exciting mix of leaders and stakeholders in the policy areas we address for stimulating discussion and policy development. The AHHA has been working with our select oral and dental policy group for over two years to develop practical policy solutions for use at state and national levels. 

This Policy Think Tank will include presentations from key public sector figures in dental care, summarising the AHHA recommendations and future implementation of major oral health reform.  Separate working group sessions in the afternoon will provide an opportunity to develop more detailed implementation plans for Commonwealth and state/territory proposals for the provision of dental services. 

Seminar Aims

Highlight strategies for:

•  Improving access to and managing demand for public oral and dental care
•  Integrating oral and dental care into general healthcare and well being
• Improving preventive oral and dental care programs 

Showcase innovations programs and projects with demonstrated outcomes that have:

• Impacted waiting times for oral and dental care
• Improved quality, safety and efficiency of service delivery with a particular focus on service integration and co-ordination of care
• Focussed on preventive programs
•  Addressed workforce challenges including recruitment, retention, education and training 

Seminar Aims:
To share information about climate change and its impact on human health, healthcare planning & 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

• Highlight strategies, systems, structures and redesigns that have resulted in improvements in the safe and timely delivery of emergency care
• Showcase models of care/service delivery/clinical practice improvement and other innovations projects with demonstrated outcomes that have improved patient flows
• Showcase patient centred approaches to the design, management, co-ordination and delivery of improved services for outpatients.This seminar is collaboration of Change Champions P/L and Queensland Health

Call for abstracts coming soon.  Suggestions for collaborating organisations, key topics and speakers welcomed.