Partnership Forums

Strategic Forums

The HealthWest Strategic Forums provide an opportunity for executive and senior management of HealthWest member organisations to discuss and plan for strategic activities of HealthWest Partnership.

2011 Strategic Forums

Let's Talk Medicare Locals, 25 March 2011

This strategic forum aimed to:

  1. Ensure members have an up-to-date understanding of the directions and processes associated with the formation of Medicare Locals
  2. Facilitate members  to share their thinking and views on the formation of Medicare Locals in the West
  3. Promote a continued sense of partnership across our sectors including primary health, local government and metropolitan health services
  4. Inform Health West’s principles, positions and action in relation to Medicare Local formation

Presentations:

HealthWest Position on Medicare Locals

Westgate General Practice Network Presentation

PivotWest Presentation

2010 Strategic Forum Reports

Future Health and Well-being Planning in the West held in November 2010

Shared Priority Forums

The HealthWest Shared Priority Forums are an opportunity for service providers and health promotion planners and practitioners to identify shared issues. It is also the forum where practitioners provide input to the strategic activities of HealthWest. Shared Priority Forums are held twice per year.

2011 Shared Priority Forums

Looking Forward Together - Setting the Priorities 2012-2015

The purpose of the Forum was to provide HealthWest members with an opportunity to:

  • Contribute to setting the shared priorities of the Partnership for the next 3 years (2012-2015)
  • Contribute to formulating the objectives within the shared priorities
  • Contribute to joining up strategies that link our work in prevention, health promotion, early intervention and treatment

Forum report

Tackling Diabetes in the West, May 2011

This forum aimed to:

  • Provide information about the Tackling Diabetes in the West Project
  • Build an understanding of the findings of the ACCD and HealthWest diabetes prevalence and food security mapping projects
  • Consider the findings of the mapping projects in the context of the Healthy Communities, Healthy Lives Model
  • Identify opportunities/activities/ projects which could be undertaken by HealthWest members and ACCD to decrease the incidence and impact of diabetes in the west by joining up population, prevention and early intervention to chronic care initiatives

Forum Report

Presentations:

ACCD/ HealthWest Project – Tackling Diabetes in the West

Diabetes Epidemic in the West

Food Security Mapping

2010 Shared Priority Forum Reports

Health Literacy: A Two Way Street held in October 2010  Appendix 1: Health Literacy Workshop Slides

Meaningful Engagement with Community, Consumers, & Carers held in May 2010