Winter strategy
The Living Well, Your Way – General Practice Winter Strategy is officially up and running.
Building on learnings from the past three years of the Murrumbidgee Winter Strategy and guided by our newly developed care pathway, this year’s Winter Strategy supports general practices refocusing their approach to more proactive and holistic chronic disease management for COPD and CHF patients at risk of deterioration over the winter period.
Twenty general practices across the Murrumbidgee Catchment have put their hands up to participate in the 2022 Winter Strategy and embrace the key goals to:
Improve quality of life for people with COPD and/or CHF through improved, proactive, coordinated primary care
Strengthen quality improvement strategies in general practice
Reduce avoidable acute care episodes (ED presentations and hospital admissions)
Reduce rates of mortality and morbidity within this group
Streamline a patient’s journey between acute and primary care.
One of our Winter Strategy activities this year will be to encourage people living with COPD and/or CHF to stay connected with their GP and pharmacist, take medications regularly and work with their clinical team to have a Sick Day Action Plan so they are aware of the signs to look for when things are not going well.
Because there was a distinct lack of data from the 2021 Winter Strategy, 2022 participating practices will be asked to use:
PENCS Topbar and tailored PAT Program
Consent to participate in the Ministry of Health’s LUMOS program, which will provide the opportunity to link data between primary and acute care
A PENCS data linkage program (still being investigated for use).
For further information about the 2022 Winter Strategy, please email Melanie Reeves at Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network.
