Prevention of Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Obesity and Chronic Disease

This Schedule will support the delivery of:
• Improving outcomes for people with cardiovascular disease,
comprising of:
• An Enduring Data Linkage Strategy ($3.495 million) which
routinely identifies patients with cardiovascular disease at risk
for hospitalisation.
• Three improvement initiatives ($8.505 million) including an
Improvement Collaborative focused on reducing readmission
for heart failure patients, the ‘Health Helper’ program and the
Cardiovascular Ambassadors nurse program.
• Development of integrated Public Health Syndromic Surveillance
system ($3.0 million) to rapidly identify any unusual patterns of
illness that may indicate a risk to public health, across emergency
departments and other health services, so that an early and
appropriate public health response can be stood up.
• An obesity and chronic disease prevention initiative ($8.0 million)
for children, targeted to high priority areas and focused on boosting
healthy eating among children and their families.