Eleanor Duncan Dental Service, in partnership with Central Coast LHD Oral Health Services, provide a five-day dental service to the Aboriginal community on Darkinjung Country on the Central Coast. This partnership model was built through mutual respect and equal governance authority to share decision making. This partnership model was established to address the low uptake of dental services among Aboriginal patients on the Central Coast.
A core part of this partnership model is that the LHD provide clinical staff to work in the ACCHO, and the ACCHO provides the dental assistants, administration and management staff. This means that dental services from the LHD can be provided under a Aboriginal Community Controlled model. The result is that the program provides integrated and coordinated care across LHD and ACCHO dental services that are culturally safe, accessible and patient-centric.
Program, ward and service management Principle 3
