News
Issue No. 19 - October/November 2004
Flinders takes lead in primary care
Flinders Consulting Pty Ltd has been selected to implement Australia's National Primary Care Collaboratives program.
The Adelaide-based company, acting on behalf of Flinders University, was selected after a comprehensive national and international call for submissions and selection by the Australian Government.
The project will cost nearly $15 million over three years, and will be led by Professor James Dunbar, a GP with 10 years' experience in the Collaboratives methodology in Britain. Prof Dunbar is Director of Greater Green Triangle University Department of Rural Health, a joint facility of Flinders and Deakin Universities.
Associate Professor Liz Farmer, from the Flinders University School of Medicine, will be Deputy Project Director. A/Professor Farmer is a qualified GP with 20 years' experience in developing and delivering medical training and education programs. A number of other people are included in the team of specialists brought together by Flinders Consulting for the bidding process. The aim of the Collaboratives methodology is to review current clinical practice and identify ways to improve it. One of its key elements is providing opportunities for Australian GPs to lead the learning process of other GPs.
The Flinders program will involve the transfer of the successful National Primary Care Collaboratives program in the United Kingdom to the Australian setting - something that has never been attempted before. The program ...
