“Let’s Get Connected”
Launch, Seminar and Networking Event for Allied Health Professionals
5 March, 2016
Opal Cove Resort, Coffs Harbour
PROGRAM
9.00 – 9.30
Registration
9.30 – 9.35
Introduction
9.35 – 9.40
Welcome to Country – Uncle Barry Hoskins, Gumbayngirr Elder
9.40 – 10.00
Launch – North Coast Allied Health Association – ‘Meet the NCAHA Board’
How NCAHA connects clinicians to improve patient care and practitioner support
North Coast Allied Health Association Directors and NCPHN CEO Vahid Saberi
10.00 – 10.20
Professor Kathryn Refshauge, University of Sydney
‘Demonstrating the effectiveness of allied health’
10.20 – 10.40
Ms Suzanne Punshon, NDIS Hunter Trial Site
‘NDIS lessons for the North Coast – moving forward into NDIA’
10.40 – 11.00
Morning Tea
11:00 – 11.30
Dr Teresa Anderson, CEO Sydney Local Health District
‘Optimising patient independence by keeping care closer to home’
11.30 – 1.00
Case Studies on Integration – Relevant presentations showcasing local ideas and examples of integration by rotation at each table
- Integrated services on the North Coast
- HealthPathways
- Supervising and supporting students on the North Coast
- Musculoskeletal pathways
- Allied Health Assistants
- Business models for allied health professionals
- Telehealth
- Heath promotion for allied health
- New Access
1.00 – 2.00
Lunch
2.00 – 2.15
Delegate Activity – Forever Young – Exercise Physiologist from Feros Care will demonstrate how he is keeping people young, strong and balanced
2.15 – 3.45
Integrating Services for Better Care
- How can we improve patient-centred care regionally?
- What’s working, what’s not?
Q&A Panel:
- Aboriginal health
- Local Health District
- General Practitioner
- NDIS
- Higher Education
3.45 – 4.00
Reflection and Wrap
How can you and NCAHA achieve integration?
4.00 – 4.30
Afternoon Tea
4.30 – 5.00
Annual General Meeting – All welcome
5.00 – 6.00
Free Time
Enjoy a stroll on the beach or a drink at the bar
6.00
Dinner
Relax with old friends and meet new ones
Enjoy your meal with music and entertainment