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APHCRI Centre of Research Excellence for building quality, governance, performance and sustainability in primary health care through the Clinical Microsystem Approach
The Department has been awarded an Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI)-funded Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) for building quality, governance, performance and sustainability in primary health care through the Clinical Microsystem Approach. .jpg "CRE Launch")
This Centre of Research Excellence in Primary Health Care Clinical Microsystems will investigate improved models in regional governance and e-health, effective multidisciplinary teamwork and primary care performance and accountability. The Centre will undertake research into building improved quality, governance, performance and sustainability in a primary health care setting and will apply and evaluate a clinical Microsystems approach across two research streams. Research Stream 1 will investigate quality, governance and sustainability in maternity share-care whilst Research Stream 2 aims to improve the safety and quality of primary healthcare. The research team comprises expertise in general practice, nursing, allied health and other specialties and aims to identify best practice quality and safety procedures and how these can be best implemented in a general practice setting.
Professor James Dunbar, Director GGT UDRH and CRE Deputy Director, is the lead for CRE Research Stream 2 which is based in Warrnambool, Victoria. Dr Amr Abou Elnour (MB BCh, PhD, Grad Dip PHC) joined the Greater Green Triangle University Department of Rural Health in August 2011, working as a post-doctoral research fellow for the APHCRI Centre of Research Excellence for building quality, governance, performance and sustainability in primary health care through the Clinical Microsystem Approach. Over the next three years, Dr Elnour will analyse data and visit general practices with an aim to improve the safety and quality of primary health care through performance measurement and organisational development. Joining the CRE team with Dr Elnour in early 2012 will be Post Doctoral Fellow, Dr Siew Seen Lim and Masters student, Andrea Hernan.
The Centre is a collaboration between the GGT UDRH and the Universities of Queensland and New South Wales and will work closely with the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Australian General Practice of Accreditation Limited, Improvement Foundation Australia, Australian Practice Managers Association, Australian Practice Nurses Association, the Chronic Illness Alliance and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.
Grant Details
Funding Body: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing via the Australian National University's Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI)
Chief Investigators: Professor Claire Jackson (University of Queensland), Professor James Dunbar (GGT UDRH, Flinders University & Deakin University), Professor Paul Batalden (Darmouth Medical School), Associate Professor Julie Johnson (University of New South Wales), Professor Jeffrey Fuller (Flinders University), Caroline Nicholson (University of Queensland), Dr Shelley Wilkinson (Mater Mother's Hospital)
Partners: University of Queensland, University of New South Wales