The Mental Health and Addiction Workforce Action Plan is part of an outcomes approach. It contributes to achieving the vision of the New Zealand Health Strategy. For mental health and addiction, this means enabling people to thrive and experience wellbeing wherever they live and whatever their circumstances. Together with the Mental Health and Wellbeing Outcome...

While current debates on how to deliver sustainable health care recognise socio-economic dimensions to health service use, attention has focussed on how to reduce demand for services. However, the measures of demand may not account for a subgroup of the population who to date have remained out of sight because they do not access health...

The strategic plan is developed and owned by Indigenous Allied Health Australia (IAHA) members – a collective of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous people and organisations who believe in the essential role allied health plays in a holistic, culturally-responsive health system. This plan focuses on IAHA’s intended direction for the next three years.

The purpose of this project has been to engage key stakeholders in the use of aggregate continuous quality improvement data to identify and address system-wide evidence-practice gaps in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Acute Rheumatic Heart Disease/ and Rheumatic Heart Disease care. We sought to engage a range of stakeholders in different roles and across...

How should Australia take advantage of the opportunities that new technologies offer to improve health and care? Many people want to be more informed and involved with their own care and learn how to prevent illness and improve wellbeing. Clinicians and carers want to be able to securely share information so they can provide safe...