The NSW Aboriginal Health Plan 2024–2034 aims to put the Closing the Gap (CTG) Priority Reforms (PRs) into action in the health system. There are four CTG PRs set nationally, and the NSW Government has identified a fifth PR specifically for NSW - ‘Employment, business growth and economic prosperity’. By embedding the CTG PRs as foundational to the NSW Aboriginal Health Plan, strategies specific to health can be progressed.
This plan’s priority reform areas are cross-cutting enablers of change for structural and systemic transformation across the health system. Addressing the reform priorities through strategies identified in this plan is vital for successfully implementing the five strategic directions.
This plan has five strategic directions which are key areas for strategic focus and tactical action. The strategic directions are aimed at building on existing work, addressing current challenges and making progress towards achieving the plan’s vision.
While the reform priorities described above include overarching transformative strategies, the strategic directions and the more specific strategic priorities include strategies that will enable core business to be done differently.
Each priority reform area and strategic direction has the same structure comprising:
This is a description of what this plan aspires to establish as the standard position and practice.
Each priority names a focus area and describes what this plan aspires to change in that area.
This statement describes how the health system and Aboriginal communities will know the objective has been successfully achieved.
These high-level strategies describe how the priorities will be achieved. Each strategy will be broken down into specific actions in the implementation plan that will sit under this plan and guide activity. Strategies are designed to provide the necessary scope and flexibility to adjust action over time based on priorities and learnings from monitoring and evaluation outcomes, and in response to our rapidly evolving health system.