A US-based researcher in innovative care practises has told a Wollongong symposium the Patient Centred Medical Home (PCMH) model required a team to succeed.
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‘’You have to understand what the patient needs and really work in that framework,’’ Professor Benjamin Crabtree said. ‘’Patient care has also gotten very complex because patients have lots of different problems so we need to have a team to take care of them instead of just an individual organisation.’’
Prof Crabtree from the Department of Family Practice, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University (NJ), was the keynote speaker at the Putting the Patient at the Centre: Patient Centred Medical Home Symposium.
More than 120 people from all over Australia and Canada attended the April 29 event much to the pleasure of Professor Andrew Bonney from the University of Wollongong.
‘’We had the opportunity to have lots of inspirational speakers talking about the challenges and rewards of trying to improve the patient centred and comprehensive care for patients in primary care,’’ Prof Bonney said.
‘’We heard real experiences from practices that have been able to achieve really big gains including Dr Duncan Mackinnon from Bega.’’
The symposium was run by Coordinare – South Eastern NSW PHN, Peoplecare and the University of Wollongong Graduate Medicine.
