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The 2010 Primary Health Care (PHC) Research Conference (formerly GP & PHC Research Conference) will be held in Darwin from 30 June-2 July 2010 with the theme Primary health care research and health reform: Improving care.
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The Australian Government's reform agenda urges action to:
- tackle the major access and equity issues that affect people now
- redesign our health system to meet emerging challenges, and
- create an agile, responsive and self-improving health system for future generations (www.yourhealth.gov.au).
Given that primary health care and prevention are at the forefront of the reform agenda, research in these areas is vital to ensure changes will improve care. We need to provide Australians with a primary health care system that is equipped to meet future challenges, from prevention to enabling access to health services, through to managing complex chronic conditions in partnership with other sectors.
Many forces are driving the need for changes in primary heath care - chronic disease, an ageing population, workforce numbers and distribution, inequities in health care and health outcomes, constraints posed by program and funding arrangements, and increases in the complexity and volume of care delivered and required in the community.
Primary health care research can do much to improve care. It can:
- set the direction for improvement by identifying what needs to be changed for whom and why
- provide data from experimental projects or development projects on the efficacy, effectiveness and efficiency of possible policy responses to identified needs
- contribute to better implementation of national programs through rigorous evaluation of programs in their early stages
- work with policy makers, practitioners and consumers to determine how improvement can be best achieved.
Delegates (researchers, policy makers, practitioners and consumers) will be attending this conference to present, listen, debate and learn how research, evaluation and development will improve primary health care.
Keep up-to-date with details of the upcoming PHC Research Conference by subscribing to our Conference Communiqué.
Keynote speakers
Conference organisers
Convenor - Assoc Prof Ellen McIntyre
Coordinator - Ms Fiona Thomas
Contact details
Email phcris@flinders.edu.au
Phone 1800 025 882
Conference secretariat
For queries concerning the Conference, please contact the Conference Secretariat:
Conference Logistics
Acting as agent for PHC RIS
PO Box 6150
Kingston ACT 2604
Phone: 02 6281 6624
Fax: 02 6285 1336
Email: conference@conlog.com.au
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