The National Patient Pathways Project will gather information and provide advice in the alcohol and other drug sector across three priority areas:
- Documenting current AOD prevention and treatment systems in Australia
- Understanding pathways through care
- 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
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
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)
- In 2012 meetings were held with ACT stakeholders including ACT Health and ATODA to provide ACT specific information, data and context
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- 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