Health Services & Allied Health

Allied health professionals provide a range of critical health and health-related services for Australian consumers across a broad range of conditions, settings and funding schemes.

Required information when referring requests to public non-admitted specialist services.

GPs can use this referral form to refer a patient with a chronic medical condition and complex care needs for Medicare rebateable allied health services under the Chronic Disease Management (CDM) Medicare items.

See Appendix IV (Page 10) for requirements of clinical handovers in allied health

The aim of clinical handover is to achieve effective, high quality communication of relevant clinical information when responsibility for patient care is transferred between facilities providing allied health services.

Victorian health services are using the ISBAR or ISOBAR1 tools as a means to implement standardised clinical handovers.

Credentialing ensures that staff treating consumers at Barwon Health possess the appropriate formal qualifications, training, experience and clinical competence to perform their role.

The purpose of this document is to provide practical guidance for managers and practitioners responsible for credentialing, and for determining and managing, a health practitioner’s scope of clinical practice.

The Allied health credentialling, competency and capability framework helps allied health managers and clinicians develop structures and processes for an effective allied health workforce.

Dealing with a patient who requests discharge against medical advice can be a daunting experience, due to the significant risk of clinical deterioration.

Here we’ll consider the approach, obligations and liabilities involved with releasing patients against medical advice.

To ensure the safety and culturally appropriate treatment of all patients across WACHS sites, this policy outlines how best to manage the process of patients who choose to leave the hospital before the completion of treatment, against the advice of the treating clinician.

The BHS policy on Clinical Documentation outlines the common and minimum standards of documentation for all clinicians contributing to the BHS medical record.

Essential information is documented in the healthcare record to ensure patient safety.

These guidelines have been developed to facilitate the training of allied health assistants (AHAs) in documentation for Queensland Health purposes.

Maintaining good health records helps keep the public safe by contributing to the continuity of healthcare. All registered health practitioners are required to comply with health record keeping requirements.

The Best Practice Guide to Clinical Incident Management has been developed as a statewide resource to support Queensland Health staff responsible for, or involved in managing, analysing and learning from patient safety incidents in healthcare settings.

This information sheet provides instruction is on how to complete the Human Services Client Incident Report form.

This guide provides the healthcare workforce a concise overview of the incident management process and its underlying principles.

These procedures provide employees with an effective, standardised system of reporting and managing incidents. It also tells management about problems so that work practices can be reviewed to reduce the likelihood of the incident happening again.

The code describes the professional behaviour and conduct National Boards expect from registered health practitioners.

Clinical governance is a shared responsibility to ensure that all patients receive the best care. Good clinical governance allows the community and health service organisations to be confident that systems are in place to deliver safe and high-quality health care, and continuously improve services.

It is the responsibility of all staff to dress in a professional manner. Standard of dress is determined by the nature of duties, the area in which the work is performed and the degree of contact with both patients and the general public.

The Supervision and delegation framework for allied health assistants and the support workforce in disability was developed in consultation with an expert panel of key industry stakeholders and highlights important aspects to be considered when expanding your allied health team to include allied health assistants and/or support workers.

This article discusses what good allied health delegation looks like. We unpack 9 common allied health delegation problems and suggest a range of solutions. We show you why good allied health delegation is so important to your clients, your workforce and your organisation.

clinical supervision can create meaningful professional connections that allow for the exploration of workplace concerns, ethics, and development to promote healthier, more Cffective allied health practice.