Webinar - Strengthening Care for Children

Strengthening Care for Children – Can integrated care reduce hospital demand and improve outcomes for children?

20 October 2021

2.00pm-3.00pm

View our recording on the AIHI YouTube channel

Speaker: Professor Harriet Hiscock is a consultant paediatrician and National Health and Medical Research Council Practitioner Fellow. She is Associate Director, Research at the Centre for Community Child Health, Director of the Royal Children's Hospital Health Services Research Unit and Group Leader, Health Services, Murdoch Children's Research Institute.

Webinar: Over the past two decades, Australia’s paediatric population has grown by 19% or 876,062 children. Yet children represent an ever-smaller proportion of primary care visits with increased demand on hospital emergency departments and clinics for conditions that could be managed in primary care. Strengthening Care 4 Children is an integrated GP-paediatrician model with promising pilot findings, now being tested in a step-wedge trial.

In this Webinar, Professor Hiscock will discuss the model, pilot results, challenges to implementation in Covid-19 and challenges for scale up. Associate Professor Yvonne Zurynski and Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite will join Professor Hiscock for a discussion about implementation science.

About the speakers

Professor Harriet Hiscock

Harriet Hiscock is a paediatrician and NHMRC Practitioner Fellow based at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and The Royal Children’s Hospital where she established Australia’s first paediatric Health Services Research Unit. Her research focuses on models of care to keep children out of hospital, improving access to and quality of mental health care, and reducing low value care.

Associate Professor Yvonne Zurynski

Yvonne Zurynski is Associate Professor of Health System Sustainability with the Australian Institute of Health Innovation at Macquarie University and leads the activities of the Coordinating Centre of the NHMRC Partnership Centre for Health System Sustainability.

Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite

Jeffrey Braithwaite is Founding Director of the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Director of the Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science and Professor of Health Systems Research at Macquarie University.

About AIHI

The Australian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI) is an internationally recognised research-intensive centre within Macquarie University, Sydney. We collaborate widely, conducting high impact research into health services and systems to make a positive difference for patients, healthcare professionals and society.