Best Practice and Innovation Forum  

8 March 2018     Westside Tabaret, 40 Bennett Rd, Horsham by the racecourse 

9am Registrations   ​Program 9.15-1.00pm 
9:15-9:30 Telehealth for Specialist Care – impacts for patients in the Wimmera: Patient
Stories Project
Wimmera Southern Mallee Health Alliance (Edenhope & District Memorial Hospital,
Rural Northwest Health, West Wimmera Health Service, Wimmera Health Care
Group)
9:30-9:45 Innovating Survivorship Care with telehealth in Rural Victoria
Carmel O’Kane – Wimmera Health Care Group in partnership with Cancer Council,
GICs, Wimmera PCP
9:45-10:00 Inaugural Wellness and Life after Cancer Program
Britenie Power, Kathleen Poulton – Rural Northwest Health in partnership with
Stawell Regional Health
10:00-10:15 Rehabilitation Exercise at Home: A trial of tele-rehabilitation in chronic respiratory
disease
Heather MacDonald – Wimmera Health Care Group in partnership with LaTrobe
University and 8 other organisations including West Wimmera Health Service
10:15-10:30 Videoconference Patient Flow Meetings ​
Jason Hay – Rural Northwest Health
10:30-10:35 Quickest of breaks…..
10:35-10:50 What patients think about Cancer Telehealth Consultations
Carmel O’Kane – Wimmera Health Care Group for the​ ​Wimmera Southern Mallee
Health Alliance (Edenhope & District Memorial Hospital, Rural Northwest Health,
West Wimmera Health Service, Wimmera Health Care Group) and supported by
Wimmera PCP
10:50-11:05 What’s coming in Telehealth technology
Liju Thomas – Grampians Rural Health Alliance
11:05-11:20 Post-natal Physiotherapy
Brooke Davies – Wimmera Health Care Group
11:20-11:35 Wellbeing Model of Care
Kathleen Poulton & Ngareta Melgren – Rural Northwest Health
11:35-11:50 Older Persons Nurse Practitioner Model in a Subacute unit
Moire Coffey & Yula Donovan – Wimmera Health Care Group
11:50-12:00 Grab a wrap and a sandwich and off we go again…
12:00-12:15 Hearing Voices Regional Project
Petra Hinch – Uniting Wimmera
12:15-12:30 Smarter Savings: informing staff of prices and costs
Jessica Scott – Wimmera Health Care Group
12:30-12:45 A model building strong community based collaborations
Karen Fuller – Warracknabeal Neighbourhood House
12:45-13:00 Supporting Clients to Succeed in Day Centre
Tony Wagenknecht – Rural Northwest Health
13:00 Close