NSW Community Health Review

Other-please specify

  1. diabetes and chronic disease
  2. People with disabilities and/or their carers also require an particular investment.
  3. Child and Family Health - increased opening hours and availability of the service to clientele
  4. Whatever special needs groups are targeted there will be an ever increasing need for specialist highly skilled appropriate staffing.
  5. young parents, fund more C and F H nurses for this specific role and social workers
  6. Health prevention- particularly evidence based. CH is a better lead agency for mental health prevention due to the life span focus of CH and strong links with families already.
  7. General comment - promoting flexible locally based multi disc. teams will always cater better for special groups than current overemphasis on standardisation.
  8. child health - chronic and complex care specific services with case management and multidisciplinary approach
  9. More specialist staff
  10. Identify a homelessness health role where disadvantaged people living on the street, in crisis accommodation services, boarding houses, private hotel rooms and caravan parks or staying temporarily with someone else are proactively sought, assessed and provided assistance and support in collaboration with other government and non-government services. Flexible models of service delivery are required from mainstream and specialist health services to address inequities in both access to health services and health status e.g. outreach and supported in-reach. A role in the prevention of homelessness should also be established.
  11. Remember Rural areas - not the numbers yes, but distance and time, travel for outreach is overloading clinicians. Without the good will of staff, rural NSW Health and Community Health would not exist
  12. What is health prevention?  Investigation includes assessment i presume.  This matrix can only be adequately completed by people with familiarity with particular service streams - it would be presumptuous for me to complete for others. What about referral being listed in the list?