Integrated Team Care

Working With Aboriginal Health Organisations

Delivering local solutions to a national problem

Integrated Team Care is one of four responses by the Closing the Gap (CTG) Strategy: Tackling Indigenous Chronic Disease developed through the Coalition of Australian Governments and funded through the Indigenous Australians Health Programme. For more information on the CTG Strategy, please see the Closing the Gap Strategy website.

Integrated Team Care is formerly the Improving Indigenous Access to Mainstream Primary Health Program and Care Coordination and Supplementary Services Program.

What is the purpose of the ITC Team?

Improving Aboriginal health by providing better access to care

Project Aims

Contribute to improving health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with chronic health conditions through better access to coordinated and multidisciplinary care, and support for self-management.

Contribute to closing the gap in life expectancy by improved access to culturally appropriate mainstream primary care services (including but not limited to general practice, allied health and specialists) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Three main resources

There are three main resources which deliver this purpose across country South Australia and includes:

• Care Coordinators
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Outreach Workers
• Indigenous Health Project Officers