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National Patient Pathways Project

The National Patient Pathways Project will gather information and provide advice in the alcohol and other drug sector across three priority areas:

  1. Documenting current AOD prevention and treatment systems in Australia
  2. Understanding pathways through care
  3. Describing a specialist AOD system in terms of interventions and linkages with primary / community care

Project leaders: Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre with National Drug Research Institute, Alcohol and Drug Council of Australia, Monash University

Funder: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing

Project duration: 2011 – June 2014

Further Details

The project will:

  • Describe the current alcohol and other drug systems in each state and territory
  • Link data from AOD, emergency department, and hospitals to examine AOD client experiences with health services and systems
  • Interview clients that are new to an AOD service, to explore their journey into, through, and following treatment along with their contact with other systems and their views on treatment
  • Critically analyse the information obtained to provide direction for system design in the context of national health reform

Major benefits of the project are the exploration of current AOD systems in Australia and people’s interface with health and other systems and the use of this information to provide critical comment about the future of AOD service provision in the context of national health reform.

Project contact:
Professor Dan Lubman
dan.lubman@monash.edu
+61 3 8413 8448

Further information:
www.turningpoint.org.au/Research/Health-Services/HS-Projects/Patient-pathways.aspx

Project Status

The project documents the current policy context, needs, investment, service types, strengths and challenges of current specialist alcohol and other drug systems in Australia; describes patient journeys through alcohol and other drug treatment, hospital admissions, emergency department contacts, and contacts with the broader social services and legal sector; and describes interventions and linkages between specialist alcohol and other drug systems and primary/community care. (Excerpt from Review of the Drug and Alcohol Prevention and Treatment Services Sector Communiqué No. 1 – 29 July 2013)

ACT Completed Activities

  • In 2012 meetings were held with ACT stakeholders including ACT Health and ATODA to provide ACT specific information, data and context

[note]ACT Status and Action 

  • No specific input or action is currently being coordinated
  • Stakeholders can individually engage in the project through contacting the project leaders

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Last updated 16 April 2014

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Acknowledgement


ATODA acknowledges and celebrates the Ngunnawal people as the traditional custodians of the land of the ACT. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. ATODA recognises and continues to learn from the contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to the alcohol, tobacco and other drug sector.

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