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After Hours Care

Immediate Care

A primary health care service

After hours primary health care is accessible and effective primary health care for people whose health condition cannot wait for treatment until regular primary health care services are next available.

Activities that Country SA PHN (CSAPHN) commission are advertised via Tenderlink and go through a tendering process. To ensure that you are aware of every opportunity please register on TenderLink.

Frances Graetz

After Hours Program Manager

Program Goals

Commonwealth Government’s after hours objectives

Accessible primary health care

After hours primary health care is accessible and effective primary health care for people whose health condition cannot wait for treatment until regular primary health care services are next available. CSAPHN’s After Hours commissioning activities are guided by the following objectives:

  • increase the efficiency and effectiveness of After Hours Primary Care for patients, particularly those with limited access to Health Services;
  • improve access to After Hours Primary Health Care through effective planning, co-ordination and support for population-based after-hours primary care; 
  • improve the availability of After Hours general practice services through working collaboratively with general practitioners.
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Commissioned Activity

Country Access to Cardiac Health (CATCH)

Rehabilitation Service

Objectives

Telephone based rehabilitaiton service that also involves patients local general practices in their recovery from a cardiac event and ongoing care.

Umoona Aged Care Aboriginal Corporation

Essential Support

Objectives

Deliver the step down and coordinator service in Coober Pedy which provides essential support and follow up to patients on discharge from hospital to prevent readmissions.

Smiles All Round

Manage Anxiety

Objectives

Provides group programs for health and education professionals, children and families on techniques to mange anxiety and stress, and building resilience, in the South East region.

Save The Children

Support Services

Objectives

Providing support for Aboriginal Mothers and children in Ceduna

After Hours Flu Vaccination Clinics Grants

Objectives

Provided to 26 organisations throughout South Australia to provide targeted grants to General Practice and Pharmacy in the after hours period.

Dental Outreach

Dental Services

Objectives

Provide extended access to dental services in the after hours period in Eyre, Flinders and Far West, Kangaroo Island, Limestone Coast, Yorke Peninsula and the Mid North.

Australian Dental Foundation

Dental Services

Objectives

Provide an after hours on call telephone based triage information and advice service with the option of tele-dentistry if required throughout the Murray Mallee and Outback regions.

Royal Flying Doctor Service

Dental Services

Objectives

Provide dental services to remote towns in SA. The RFDS has received funding to extend the hours of this service into the after hours whilst they are visiting, as well as upskilling the local staff to be able to support patients after hours with emergencies and tele-dentistry services.

SHINE SA

Gender Support

Objectives

Provides information and support from Peer Support Workers with lived experience of gender diversity. This service is for people who identify as or support someone who identifies as transgender, gender evidence or gender questioning and would like to learn more are also provided with information and support.

Summit Health

Telehealth

Objectives

Provides telehealth medical assessment using the SA Health endorsed platform Cisco Jabber to the on call GP located at EDcare.

Sonder

Objectives

Deliver the evidenced based Healthy Eating and Lifestyle (HEAL) modification program over 8 weeks in 85 locations throughout the CSAPHN region. Participatants undergo an individual health assessment and sessions consist of supervised exercise and lifestyle modification education with follow up at 5 and 12 months post program completion to track progress.

headspace

Objectives

After hours access to headspace sites in Berri, Murray Bridge, Mount Barker, Victor Harbor, Mount Gambier, Whyalla and Port Augusta.

Sonder

Mental Health Service

Objectives

Extended after hours access to mental health services managed by Sonder Care.

West Coast Youth Community Services

Alcohol and other Drug

Objectives

West Coast Youth Community Services in Port Lincoln are able to provide valuable therapeutic community based Alcohol and other Drugs programs in the after hours with the provision of funding from this program.

Murray Mallee General Practice Network

Mental Health

Objectives

After Hours access to Mental Health services has been made possible with funding provided to Summit Health in the Fleurieu region and Murray Mallee General Practice Network in the Murray Mallee region.

Drug and Therapeutic Information Service (DATIS)

Medication Support

Objectives

The regional medication management support service is provided by the Drug and Therapeutic Information Service (DATIS who facilitate Medication Advisory Committees, access to the therapeutics advice line and provide multidisciplinary education across the entire CSAPHN region.

Summit Health

Mental Health Service

Objectives

Extended after hours access to mental health services managed by Summit Health.