Aged Care & Rehabilitation Clinical Services Plan 2007 – 2012

Aged Care & Rehabilitation Clinical Service Plan 2007 - 201210. IMPLEMENTATION, MONITORING AND EVALUATIONThe AC&RS Clinical Services Plan outlines a service delivery model for community and acuteAC&RS within SSWAHS, along with a range of service development initiatives which are outlined indetail in the 2006 Self Assessment response to the Framework for the Integrated Support andManagement of Older People in the NSW Health System 2004 – 2006; (SSWAHS, 2006) and theOlder People and Aged Care Health Services Project Solution Design Report (SSWAHS, 2007),produced through the Clinical Redesign process.The Plan documents the actions required to deliver this service model across SSWAHS by 2012,whilst delivering the structure to develop this service model to 2016, in response to anticipateddemographic changes. It follows the structure of the aged care service delivery model, incorporatingcore services, enhanced services, supra-regional services and partnership/associated services.Actions are also included in relation to infrastructure and support requirements.Plan implementation will be monitored through the SSWAHS Aged Care and RehabilitationExecutive, including the SSWAHS Older Persons and Aged Care Services Clinical RedesignImplementation Management Committee, and report six monthly to the Area Executive.The Plan will be comprehensively reviewed in 2012, and its success evaluated, prior to further plansbeing developed.Page 78