Enhancing prevention in primary health care – Phase 2
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The project implemented the first publicly accessible, non-commercial cardiovascular disease risk calculator that was built with the current Australian guidelines, best practice risk communication and International Patient Decision Aids Standards.
The risk calculator was co-designed with GPs to address behavioural barriers to cardiovascular disease prevention guidelines.
Introduction
The project team have collaborated with stakeholders such as the Heart Foundation, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and software providers to disseminate findings in support of the updated risk assessment guidelines due in 2023.
Featured project resources
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Research seminar: How can we use PHN systems to implement the revised CVD prevention guidelines?
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Improving the implementation of cardiovascular disease risk assessment in general practice
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Improving communication about heart disease risk assessment in general practice using translational research strategies
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Featured project news
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Hearty news
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Primary Health Networks as primary research sites
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‘Taking up smoking’ rates declining in adolescent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
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About
Strengthening the role of Primary Health Networks in the prevention of chronic disease
Project titleWhat is the issue?
Primary health care has an important role in assessing, preventing and managing the most prevalent modifiable risk factors for chronic disease. Australia’s Primary Health Networks (PHNs) can play a role in developing partnerships with key stakeholders to commission and coordinate new preventive services and programs and to integrate clinical and population health approaches to chronic disease prevention. It is not clear, however, what this looks like in practice.
How did the project address the issue?
Following the first phase of our research into strengthening the role of PHNs in prevention, this project aimed to identify what prevention approaches are feasible, working well, or could potentially work well, in primary health care.
The project identified a cardiovascular disease prevention initiative with PHNs and stakeholders, then trialed and evaluated this prevention initiative across several PHNs to determine feasibility of scaling up such an initiative across all PHNs in Australia.
What is the relevance for practice?
Through identifying the barriers to prevention approaches in primary care, such as practice facilitation (which has the potential to play a key role in primary care redesign), there is the potential to improve the coherence of the PHN efforts in reducing the burden of chronic disease in Australia and in using resources more effectively to better prevent and manage chronic disease.
News and media
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Hearty news
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Primary Health Networks as primary research sites
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‘Taking up smoking’ rates declining in adolescent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
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‘What if’ tool explores complex problems
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Resources
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Research seminar: How can we use PHN systems to implement the revised CVD prevention guidelines?
Resource category:Videos
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Improving the implementation of cardiovascular disease risk assessment in general practice
Resource category:Findings Brief
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Improving communication about heart disease risk assessment in general practice using translational research strategies
Resource category:Reports
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Publications
Other publications
- Bonner C. Influencing change: Why when and how. Invited presentation and two-hour workshop hosted by Wiser Healthcare NHMRC program. Melbourne, Australia, 4 March 2020. (Attended by about 50 academic researchers and clinicians from Bond, Sydney and Monash universities and two national consumer representatives.)
- Bonner C. CVD Risk Calculator. Pen CS User Summit hosted by GP clinical audit software company licensed to most PHNs in Australia. Sydney, Australia, 20 March 2020. (Attended by about 50 PHN staff from all states/territories.)
- Bonner C. CHAT-GP project Cardiovascular Risk Assessment Tool. Queensland Statewide GP Liaison Officer Meeting hosted by OUR Primary Health Network. Brisbane, Australia, 25 November 2019. (Attended by Queensland PHN staff from seven regions.)
- Bonner C. What research and activities are currently happening around clinical decision support tools for CVD risk? (Overview of CHAT-GP intervention and research program). National Stakeholder Roundtable hosted by National Heart Foundation and ANU. Canberra, Australia, 29 November 2019. (Attended by 25 stakeholders involved in national clinical guidelines planning, including clinicians, researchers, not for profit and government organisation representatives.
People
Lead investigators
Project team
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Lyndal Trevena
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Associate Professor Kevin McGeechan
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Samuel Cornell Samuel Cornell has finished working with the Prevention Centre.
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Kristen Pickles
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Dr Melissa Hobbs Dr Melissa Hobbs has finished working with the Prevention Centre.