Service coordination places consumers at the centre of service delivery to make sure they have access to the services they need, opportunities for early intervention and health promotion which lead to improved health outcomes. Service coordination enables health and community service professionals to work together, yet remain independent of each other, to ensure a coordinated and integrated response to consumer needs.
Wimmera PCP are able to support member agencies to implement service coordination practices and electronic referral.
The service coordination framework helps health service providers to work together to align practices, processes and systems so:
- people access the health services they need, no matter what service they go to first
- providers exchange the right information so consumers receive good care from the right providers at the right time
- people have their health and social needs identified early, preventing deterioration in health.
- Service coordination places consumers at the centre of service delivery. The idea is to maximise consumers’ likelihood of accessing the services that they need.
Service coordination also enables organisations to remain independent of each other, while cooperating to give consumers a seamless and integrated response.
The resources to support service coordination practice in Victoria include:
- the Victorian service coordination practice manual 2012 and the Good practice guide 2012
- the continuous improvement framework 2012
- the SCTT 2012 (individual tools and templates available for download, including the consumer information privacy brochure and the consent form in over 50 languages)
- the SCTT 2012 user guide (includes all service coordination tools and templates, and further information, in booklet form)
- ICT specifications for service coordination tool templates (for software vendors).