1 Valley community and Gippsland more broadly to have the 2 equity of access to services that exist in other 3 regions. 4 This includes access to those services - and I 5 know Wendy's spoken at length about access to 6 specialist services, but also those issues of transport 7 and other incidental support. 8 The broader availability of Gippsland Medical 9 Students Program we've heard about in one of the other 10 sessions, where they're mentoring high school students 11 and creating pathways to education. 12 What use is it to treat people with presenting 13 health problems if we're going to return them to 14 circumstances that made them unwell to start with? 15 Proportional universalism - I hadn't heard of that 16 before. But the interesting concept of the same for 17 all but more for those who need it most. It's a way of 18 thinking about how we work with our communities to 19 ensure a focus on, those who need it, get it. 20 We can look at the Stamford model, we can look at 21 the Dutch nursing model, we can look at concierge 22 models - there are any number of opportunities 23 available to us to learn and we can implement those 24 learnings. 25 We can attach funding to a patient. Treat locally 26 wherever possible. If the money is in the system, and 27 that is a capacity of a local service provider to 28 provide that service, you should not have to go to 29 Melbourne for that treatment. 30 Evidence informed strategies together with 31 innovation and community generated and owned
1 Valley community and Gippsland more broadly to have the 2 equity of access to services that exist in other 3 regions. 4 This includes access to those services - and I 5 know Wendy's spoken at length about access to 6 specialist services, but also those issues of transport 7 and other incidental support. 8 The broader availability of Gippsland Medical 9 Students Program we've heard about in one of the other 10 sessions, where they're mentoring high school students 11 and creating pathways to education. 12 What use is it to treat people with presenting 13 health problems if we're going to return them to 14 circumstances that made them unwell to start with? 15 Proportional universalism - I hadn't heard of that 16 before. But the interesting concept of the same for 17 all but more for those who need it most. It's a way of 18 thinking about how we work with our communities to 19 ensure a focus on, those who need it, get it. 20 We can look at the Stamford model, we can look at 21 the Dutch nursing model, we can look at concierge 22 models - there are any number of opportunities 23 available to us to learn and we can implement those 24 learnings. 25 We can attach funding to a patient. Treat locally 26 wherever possible. If the money is in the system, and 27 that is a capacity of a local service provider to 28 provide that service, you should not have to go to 29 Melbourne for that treatment. 30 Evidence informed strategies together with 31 innovation and community generated and owned
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