Open Your Practice to Collaborative Change

In Australia, GPs and general practice managers are finding alternate ways to work together to deliver patient care. Options available to general practices include alliances and joint ventures, mergers, co-operatives, GP Partnership and social enterprise.

Transformers III – Planning & Contributing Together will start at the beginning and focus on alliances and the rationale for working together.

Why collaborate?

There is no single model for a collaboration of practices and other providers. Models can range from a loose alliance of practices to a managed single corporate entity. A collective vision enables the process to run quickly, efficiently and cost effectively.

Benefits of collaboration can include

• Cost savings for sharing of staff and/or premises (eg. Clinical Nurse Specialists)
• Shared quality frameworks and policies and opportunities for training and development
• Access to a wider range of skills, expertise and tailored services
• Improved quality of one or more patient services
• Better patient access, faster treatment and better outcomes
• Opportunity for successful bidding
• Retainment of existing patient-doctor relationship, local knowledge, knowledge of clinical staff, and understanding of patient need

Why attend Transformers III?

At Transformers III you’ll be given innovative examples of alliances and how they can apply locally. We’ll look at:

• What practices can do to prepare for greater collaboration
• Essential components of a successful collaboration
• Structural options available to practices
• The principles for driving value from collaboration
• Risk and reward regimes that incentivise alliance partners
• Tools to establish trust on which to build an alliance

Register now and gain:

• A seven-step process to use when considering a collaborative model
• A base understanding of the structure, governance and workforce skill required
• Confidence to try a more shared and cross-sector approach
• Tools for overcoming constraints and barriers when sharing investments
• Specific examples with real outcomes

Day One speaker sessions include:

• The growth and impact of alliancing and the rationale for working together – Dr Nick Goodwin, International Foundation for Integrated Care
• The North Coast landscape: where we currently stand on shared investment and why it’s important we explore alliance models – Centre Partners
• Managing alliances effectively and developing a ‘one team’ culture: the ingredient for making alliances work – Dr Viktoria Stein, Integrated Care Academy
• Defining, measuring and rewarding value: improving outcomes through effective planning and purchasing – Dr Apostolos Tsiachristas, University of Oxford
• Nine steps for establishing an alliance – Jane Gray & Catherine Turner, Hunter Alliance
• Working with LGAs and the community to plan, develop, implement and evaluate services – Luke Arnold and Ally Dench, Wollondilly Alliance
• NSW Health procurement update and expectations when sharing investment – Michael Gendy, NSW Health

Day Two

Participants will be given a range of different scenarios and real life local examples of where alliance-based models can be used in general practice and other settings. You’ll be given a range of tools to help you learn together what it takes to establish a sustainable alliance model. Presenters will be on hand to answer your questions and there will be time for networking.

If you have a collaborative idea you would like to workshop at Transformers III, please get in touch. Call Bronwyn on 02 6618 5445 or email coordinator@thecentrehki.com.au. This could be your opportunity to co-design an alliance for the future of your practice.

Register now as spaces are limited. Download the program here.

Transformers III Dinner with Dr Apostolos Tsiachristas
Monday 5 November, 7pm – 9pm

Want to learn about the future of financing healthcare in Europe and how it relates to Australian context? Dr Apostolos Tsiachristas is at the cutting edge of health economic research and will be joining us from the University of Oxford.

Enjoy a 2-course dinner at the 5 star Byron at Byron Resort and Spa and hear from Dr Tsiachristas as he guides us through payment and economic evaluation of integrated care, with a focus on complex interventions.

Share experiences and ideas, discuss findings and synergies, and get to know financial incentives for sustaining integrated care.

Register now as spaces are limited.

Transformers III will be held in Byron Bay and Coffs Harbour from Monday 5 November to Thursday 8 November 2018.