Allied Health Outreach Framework
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Population Health > Allied Health > Allied Health Development
Country Allied Health Outreach Service Framework (CAHOS)
Allied health professionals located in regional or district centre health services throughout rural Western Australia, are responsible for the provision of services across large geographical areas to a wide variety of rural and remote communities. Outreach service delivery has become a major focus of country health services as they aim to provide quality allied health services to all communities within their health service catchment. Outreach services are defined as primary health care services delivered in sites where the service is unavailable in the local community. WA Country health Service, via National Health Development Funding, undertook a project establish a framework to support the development and provision of outreach services across a range of situations and contexts.
Project Objectives
- Develop a sustainable and flexible framework for the provision of outreach allied health services, which is adaptable to the local context.
- Develop a framework for the provision of outreach allied health service delivery (fly-in fly-out or drive-in drive out).
- To identify strategies for optimising and integrating outreach services.
- Develop preliminary resources for outreach allied health services.
- To integrate outreach models into current service delivery frameworks (eg Telehealth Allied Health Bureau Services, Therapy Assistants).
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