Healthy Outlook - Sydney Local Health District - NSW Government

CORPORATE AND PATIENT CARE OBJECTIVES
Every year, CSAHS and NSW Health set goals and
objectives reflecting the needs of our community.
Each area health service in NSW must address four
goals, which are healthier people, fairer access,
quality healthcare and better value. Key focus areas,
established by NSW Health, guide service provision
and enable standards to be set across the State’s
health system for the four priorities. CSAHS’s
1999/2000 – 2000/2001 Performance Agreement
details the strategies and performance measures
we use to achieve these goals.*
This overview summarises the key focus areas for
the four goals.
Healthier People
Mental health: To maintain and improve mental
health by implementing directions outlined in
Caring for Mental Health – A Framework for Mental
Healthcare in NSW. Emphasis is placed on developing
partnerships; emergency mental health response;
prevention, promotion and early intervention;
providing better mental healthcare; and improving
quality and effectiveness.
Health priority areas and health promotion:
To improve wellbeing through initiatives in health
promotion and the priority areas of cardiovascular
disease, diabetes, cancer, asthma and injury.
Health protection: To protect health by managing
risks associated with the environment, infectious
diseases and food safety, focusing on sun-safety
skin penetration guidelines, immunisation and
participation in Statewide food safety surveys.
Fairer Access
Aboriginal health: To collaborate with Aboriginal
communities to improve the health of Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander people by providing better
access and more effective services, developing
partnerships, creating employment opportunities
and conducting cultural awareness programs.
Service access and service models: To provide
direction for ensuring access to services and
appropriate models of care, in particular for waiting
times, treatment continuity, targeted population
groups and outreach specialist support.
Quality Healthcare
Initiatives in quality management: To improve and
provide direction for the quality of health services.
Community engagement and working in partnerships:
To involve local people in the planning of healthcare
and overseeing inter-agency collaboration for service
provision.
Teaching and research: To ensure an environment
in which scientific enquiry and rigorous evaluation
are integral parts of local health service policy,
management and practice; national and State
standards for research practice and ethics are
applied; and the training and educational needs
of health professions are supported.
Skilled, valued workforce: To direct effective human
resource systems, offer appropriate training and
support for staff, and improve occupational health
and safety.
Better Value
Activity, financial management and efficiency
strategies: To provide available health services
effectively, efficiently and within budget,
concentrating on activity, financial management,
day surgery, utilisation rates and efficiency.
Health service strategic development and asset
strategies: To provide strategic direction for major
initiatives, guide the implementation of our health
plan and ensure good management and use of our
resources.
Information management: To manage information
systems and technologies to support quality
healthcare, focusing on unaudited annual return
and hospital cost data collection, health information
exchange, information management and technology
strategy, year 2000 compliance and a common
health record.
*Extracts from the 1999/2000 – 2000/2001 Performance
Agreement are available in the 1999/2000 CSAHS
Statutory Report
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