Health Consulting

• Over a decade of experience in health planning for mental health (MH), Alcohol and other Drug (AOD), Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Stepped Care and Emergency Management services.
• Integrated planning of services leveraging multiple funding streams.
• Co-commissioning utilising state and federal funding.

• Annual planning team days.
• Collaboration with executives and managers for integrated planning and co-commissioning strategy that aligns to strategy, policy, need and resource.

o Demand modelling and forecasting for critical services in line with Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System. Services include acute inpatient care and integrated MHAOD hospital based hubs.

o Diagnostics for multiple mental health services:

• to confirm problem definition (quality, cost, access etc..), scope and potential root causes.
• for gaps analysis between current and desired state.

o Collaboration with your teams for:

• Statistical current state and gaps analysis.
• Demand modelling and forecasting.
• Problem definition diagnostics for local programs (e.g., access and supply, inefficiencies, cost, collaborative care)  

  o Design of: 

• Mental Health, AOD and Suicide Prevention and Postvention Models of Care.
• sector leading mental health stepped care, and psychological strategies programs.
• first ever regional approach to suicide prevention and postvention in Victoria.
• some of the first outcomes-based mental health programs in Australia.

o Model of care design for multiple health services with tangible realisation of policy direction.

o Leading co-design forum for a range of psychological services.

• Development and delivery of design forums including supporting teams to design and deliver.
• Literature review for service types and related evidence-base.
• Innovative evidence-based program design including detailed model of care.

• Leading development/implementation of multiple procurement processes including request for tender (RFT) writing.
• Contract development for multiple service types including individual provider and organisations.
• Primary relationship manager for multiple Local Public Health Units and health providers for service delivery and emergency response.
• Development of a range of robust operational processes and frameworks including clinical governance to financial systems.
• Member of development reference group for Australian Government Initial Assessment and Referral Decision Support Tool (IAR).

• RFT writing.
• Tender evaluation development.
• Tender panel member.
• Tender response writing.
• Supply structure design to drive innovation, market development and achieve desired outcomes. 

• Sector leader in financial unit costing for health programs.
• Leading of entire mental health program federal evaluation requirements for funded organisations for eight years.
• Leading evaluation of multiple service types including psychological strategies and clinical care coordination.
• Member of national Primary Mental Health Care Minimum Data Set reference group for four years.
• Member of design team for first ever Primary Health Network Yes Survey experience measure.
• Development of multiple KPI frameworks including data definitions and measurement methodology.
• Collaborative design of client information management systems (CIMS) to measure and report on outcomes.

• KPI framework design including specific indicators.
• Data definition and measurement methodology design.
• Co-design of measurement systems in partnership with CIMS providers.
• Unit costing.
• Collaboration with teams on all above including team days.