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Plans and strategies

Acknowledgement

West Moreton Health acknowledges the Jagera, Yuggera and Ugarapul peoples, Traditional Custodians of the land. We recognise their continuing connection to the land, waters and community and we pay our respect to Elders past and present, and those who follow their path.
 

Strategic PlanWest Moreton Health Strategic Plan thumbnail

The West Moreton Health Strategic Plan 2021-25 outlines how we will serve our community over the next four years including our values, vision, purpose, priorities and enablers.

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First Nations Health Equity StrategyFirst Nations Health Equity Strategy thumbnail

By removing systemic barriers that contribute to racial disparities in health outcomes, we can close the gap in life expectancy experienced by First Nations peoples in the West Moreton Health region. The West Moreton Health First Nations Health Equity Strategy 2022-2025 articulates key priority areas, strategies and key performance indicators which will contribute to achieving health equity for First Nations community members and reduce the gap in health outcomes for First Nations peoples.

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First Nations Health Equity Implementation Plan

The West Moreton Health First Nations Health Equity Implementation Plan (FN HEIP) highlights the ongoing commitment to achieving equitable health outcomes for our First Nations people across the West Moreton Hospital and health region.

The FN HEIP has gone through an extensive consultation process including First Nations community, elders, staff, community organisations and further prescribed stakeholders to ensure the communities needs are addressed. The West Moreton Health Executive team and Board members reviewed the FN HEIP further to strengthen the plan confirming the commitment at all levels across the organisation.

The actions included in the FN HEIP will enable West Moreton Hospital and Health Service to explore and monitor strategies to embed cultural knowledge and understanding of health while continuing to explore opportunities improve across First Nations health outcomes across our region.

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    Strategic Action Plan

    Our Strategic Action Plan provides an overview of the actions that will be taken to fulfil the strategic priorities. This plan is under development and will be published following completion.

    For more information about the development of the Strategic Action Plan please contact the Planning Team at WM_StrategicProjectsAndPlanning@health.qld.gov.au.

     

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    Our Clinical Services Plan 2020-35 has been developed to identify and articulate current and future challenges in health care delivery, and how we will respond to those challenges. This plan provides a critical linkage between service delivery and our Strategic Plan. It will be used by our corporate and clinical staff to develop enabling service strategies (e.g. workforce and infrastructure), annual service plans, operational plans and for annual budget negotiations.

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    Clinical Education and Learning Strategyclinical education and learning strategy

    Our Clinical Education and Learning Strategy 2015-20 will guide us toward our vision of embedding a culture of lifelong learning.

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    Digital Healthcare StrategyDigital healthcare strategy cover thumbnail

    The West Moreton Health Digital Healthcare Strategy 2023-26 has been developed to guide WMH in delivering world-class and digitally enabled services across the region. With careful consideration and alignment with the West Moreton Health Strategic Plan 2021-25, this Strategy will articulate clear actionable targets to increase the WMH's digital capability by 2026.

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    Disability Services Plan Disability Services Plan cover thumbnail

    The West Moreton Health Disability Services Plan 2023-26 provides an opportunity to understand the health and service needs of people with disability more deeply within our region. In addition, it enables the development of achievable and measurable actions to progress towards a more inclusive community, and to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for people with disability.

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    Engagement FrameworkEngagement framework cover thumbnail

    Engaging with our consumers, community, partners and staff improves the quality of the services we deliver. Our Engagement Framework 2020–21 explains how engagement promotes continuous improvement.

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    Strong engagement fosters trust in decision-making and helps guide improvement. Our Engagement Strategy 2020–21 outlines the approach we take to engage with all of our stakeholders in meaningful and measurable ways. Having this strategy ensures that our values – connect, respect, excel – are embedded in each phase of engagement.

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    Consumer and Community Engagement StrategyConsumer and community engagement strategy cover thumbnail

    Our vision is a thriving West Moreton community in which people achieve their best possible health and wellbeing. We aim to achieve this by ensuring consumers, carers and the community are partners in their healthcare. Our Consumer and Community Engagement Strategy 2018-21 outlines the processes we use to work with consumers and the community in the planning, design and evaluation of our services.

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    Clinician Engagement StrategyClinician engagement strategy cover thumbnail

    Our Clinician Engagement Strategy 2019-21 outlines our approach to engagement and the steps we will take to ensure clinicians are involved in the planning, implementation and evaluation of healthcare services.

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    Local Area Needs Analysis Summary ReportLocal Area Needs Analysis Summary Report cover thumbnail

    The Local Area Needs Analysis (LANA) will be used to inform and implement local strategic directions, health service planning initiatives, models of care review and service redesign. More broadly, the Department of Health will collate the LANA for each Hospital and Health Service into a statewide summary to identify system-wide priorities for Queensland.

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    Children and Young Persons FrameworkChildren and young person framework

    Our Children and Young Persons Framework defines the strategic intent, the vision, the priority areas and the associated required actions, that will assist with achieving improved health and wellbeing of children and young people of the West Moreton region.

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    Research StrategyResearch Strategy

    We seek to support clinicians to be active contributors in improving the way they provide care to our community through research and evidence-based practice.

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    Older Person's Health and Wellbeing StrategyOlder Person's Health and Wellbeing Strategy cover thumbnail

    West Moreton Health (WMH) and Darling Downs and West Moreton PHN have committed to a culture of
    partnership and collaboration. The WMH and PHN Older Person's Health and Wellbeing Strategy (2021-26)
    has been developed to guide the way we plan and deliver community, primary and secondary health services
    to support older people to stay healthy, connected and at home. Additionally, the strategy recognises the
    important role families and carers play in helping to keep our older population healthy, happy, and fulfilled.

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    End of Life Knowledge Frameworkend of life knowledge framework

    The West Moreton region End of Life Knowledge Framework is a user-friendly, practical guide to relevant education courses and resources for all health professionals and professional care givers providing care at the end of life.

    For more information please contact WM_StrategicProjectsAndPlanning@health.qld.gov.au.

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    Framework for Safety and Quality 2020 (Clinical Governance Framework) Clinical governance framework cover

    This Framework for Safety and Quality 2020 outlines the way we govern safety and quality – how we define quality, the various roles and responsibilities for safety and quality across the organisation and the elements of our system that combine to assure the delivery of safe and continuously improving healthcare.

    It forms the basis for our Safety and Quality Improvement Strategy 2020-23, which sets out our improvement aspirations and how we will achieve them over the next three years.

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    Safety and Quality Improvement Strategy 2020-23Safety and quality improvement strategy 2020-23 cover

    The Safety and Quality Improvement Strategy 2020-23 sets out our improvement aspirations and how we will achieve them over the next three years.

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    Equity FrameworkEquity framework

    The equity framework, approved in March 2020, sets out our vision and values for providing an accessible, equitable workplace for staff and accessible, equitable services for the community.

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    Community profileCommunity profile cover thumbnail

    Our Community Profile has been developed to provide concise snapshots of the public health services, population health status and healthcare priorities across key regions within the region.

    It is intended that this document will support engagement with staff and stakeholders alike.

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    Stand alone community profiles from the main document:

    Health Lives, Healthy Minds

    The joint regional comprehensive Mental Health, Suicide Prevention, Alcohol and Other Drug Plan titled "Healthy Minds, Healthy Lives' aims to improve access to mental health, suicide prevention and alcohol and other drug services in the Darling Downs and West Moreton region. 

    Healthy Minds, Healthy Lives is the result of extensive consultation with a range of stakeholders and builds on the strong partnership between Darling Downs and West Moreton PHN, Darling Downs Health and West Moreton Health. 

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