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Transforming Primary Care: Developing Health Precincts as Models for Sustainable Integrated Community-Based Healthcare
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Transforming Primary Care: Developing Health Precincts as Models for Sustainable Integrated Community-Based Healthcare

Florin Oprescu, Shauna Fjaagesund, Margaret Hardy and Evan Jones
Healthcare, Vol.11(5), pp.1-11
2023
PMID: 36900681
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Abstract

primary healthcare community-based healthcare health hub health precinct
Holistic healthcare precincts are an emerging service model to address the growing health service demands of ageing consumers and an increasing prevalence of chronic diseases. In Australia and similar countries with universal publicly funded Medicare systems, the first point of access to healthcare is provided by general medical practitioners. This case report focuses on successful components of a private, integrated, patient centred primary care model located in a low socioeconomic population in North Brisbane, Queensland. Successful components included a focus on sustainability, general practice as an anchor tenant in the health precinct, the integration of multiple services, team based care for shared clinical services, flexible expansion options, the use of MedTech, support for small businesses and a cluster structure. The Morayfield Health Precinct (MHP) offers appropriate, safe and individualised healthcare to residents across their life continuum. Its success was built on a foundation of pre planning, to ensure the design or build, anchor tenant and collaborative ecosystem were sustainable in the long term. MHP planning was based on an adaptation of the WHO IPCC framework supporting true patient centred, integrated care. Its shared vision and collaborative care are supported by its internal governance structure, tenant selection, established and emerging referral networks and partnerships. Evidence based and informed care is further supported by internal and external research and education partnerships.

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