Primary Health Branch policy and funding guidelines

24 Primary Health Branch policy and funding guidelines––2006–07 to 2008–09 (2008–09 update)
4.4 Women’s Health
Program: Women’s Health
Type and scope
of service
Women’s health services work directly with women and in partnership with other organisations.
The program operates through three statewide and nine regional programs.
Funding Refer to Primary Health Funding Approach section 3.10.
Target group/
eligibility
Fees
Service
coordination
Integrated health
promotion
Women’s health services work to improve the health and wellbeing of women but prioritise those
population groups for whom access to health services is difficult. These include Aboriginal women, women
from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, women with disabilities, rural women and those
identified by statewide, regional, PCPs and community health planning processes, for example, women
from drought and bushfire affected areas.
No fees apply for Women’s Health Program services.
To achieve service integration across the health care continuum, it is expected that the practice of service
coordination be embedded into service delivery.
Quality health promotion practice (as outlined in the Integrated Health Promotion Framework) is to be
embedded within health promotion planning, implementation and evaluation.
4.5 Family Planning (FPP)
Program: Family Planning (FPP)
Type and scope
of service
FPP assists Victorians to make individual choices on sexual and reproductive health matters by providing a
range of accessible, culturally relevant and responsive services to people experiencing difficulty accessing
mainstream services.
Funding Refer to Primary Health Funding Approach in section 3.10.
Target group/
eligibility
Fees
Service
coordination
Integrated health
promotion
People with special needs who are less able to obtain adequate family planning services from mainstream
health services. These include young people, women from culturally, sexually and linguistically diverse
backgrounds, Aboriginal people and people with disabilities.
As per the Community and Women’s Health fees policy. Inability to pay cannot be used as a basis for
refusing a service to people who are assessed as requiring a service.
To achieve service integration across the health care continuum, it is expected that the practice of service
coordination be embedded into service delivery.
Quality health promotion practice (as outlined in the Integrated Health Promotion Framework) is to be
embedded within health promotion planning, implementation and evaluation.