GCPHN-supervised and co-funded PhD student and research fellow, Bryce Brickley, from Griffith University’s School of Health Sciences and Social Work, recently published a paper in CSIRO Publishing’s Australian Health Review, a journal of the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association.
The article, ‘Enhancing person-centred care and access to primary care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’, seeks to identify lessons from the pandemic and propose ideas to inform policy and practice, paving the road for effective primary care services to support the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.
Some of the key points to enhancing person-centred care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are to:
Prioritise the funding of healthcare planning and delivery and adequately fund standard GP services to enable longer consultation durations.
Advocate for the use of telehealth for standard GP care services to sustain person-centred care and access to care by priority patient populations.
Integrate principles of ACCHO models of care to mainstream general practice to enhance person-centred care.
Brickley partnered with two front-line clinicians, Jaydene Burzacott and Thileepan Naren, to co-author the paper, and their collaboration helped build capacity, ensuring the messages are relevant to practice and increase the cultural integrity of the article – both crucial factors for impact.