Joint Statement Shared Commitment

Our shared commitment reflects our understanding that across all four parts of the commitment, we consider what the system needs to do to provide patient-centred healthcare.

One Health System Mindset

A one health system mindset which supports us to think and act beyond our current healthcare structures and boundaries in healthcare.

• Working as one health system means our policies, planning and service delivery put the person at the centre so that they experience their care as coming from the same system.
• Collaborate across the different settings of care and enable care provision in the community
• Investment in social infrastructure, healthy lifestyles, health prevention and community development
• Removing the structures and barriers that reinforce silos

Working Together

Working together with shared principles and shared focus areas to address shared challenges.

• Engaging, involving and empowering communities to participate, and valuing the community voice
• Investing in building our relationships
• Valuing each other’s perspectives
• Building the right leadership capability
• Thinking as one workforce
• Enabling care in the community
• Commissioning in collaboration
• Developing shared models of care
• Reducing duplication
• Enhancing digital approaches

Planning and Evaluating

Planning and evaluating our actions to improve healthcare experiences, population health outcomes and health system cost efficiency.

• Our approach of a regional focus backed by the right system supports means that we plan and evaluate our actions together at the regional and at the system level through the Quadruple Aim:
  • Caring for the carer
  • Improve health outcomes for the population
  • Improve cost efficiency of the health system
  • Improving the patient experience of care (including quality and satisfaction)

Regional Focus

A regional focus for planning, commissioning, designing and delivering healthcare backed by the right system support from the State and the Commonwealth.

• Regional stakeholders in the design and delivery of healthcare
• Actively working together to jointly plan, problem solve, and design shared care models will enable the development of strong partnerships
• Pooling of resources is most effective when used to address specific needs in a locality, cohort or co-morbidity

Governance

To ensure the successful outputs of the Joint Statement, working groups will be created with responsibility of delivering key priorities. These working groups will be overseen by a newly created Joint Statement Steering Committee (JSSC). The purpose of the JSSC is to provide an advisory and leadership role to the working groups.

The Governance is divided into four phases:

• Phase 1: formation or working groups, including:
  • Working Group 1: Focussing on Care in the Community
  • Working Group 2: Establishing Regional Planning Processes and Governance
  • Working Group 3: Data and outcomes
• Phase 2: Finalisation of Workplans, review and endorsement by JSCC
• Phase 3: Delivery against Workplans.
• Phase 4: Deliverables and report due to JSSC; Develop workplan for the following year.