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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.

Save The Children

Support Services

Objectives

Providing support for Aboriginal Mothers and children in Ceduna

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.

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

Healthy Eating and Lifestyle

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.

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.

Sonder

Mental Health Service

Objectives

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

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.

After Hours Immunisation Service

Immunisation Support

Objectives

Extend opening for the provision of immunisation services (Vaccine Preventable Diseases) in the after hours period.

Gumeracha area

After Hours General Practice

Primary Health Care

Objectives

Provide extended operating hours and/or increase GP/Practice nurse staffing capacity in the after hours period.

Ardrossan, Mount Pleasant, Birdwood and Gawler areas

Intergrating Primary Health Care Services

Primary Health Care

Objectives

Provide allied health and other specialist nurse services to under-serviced and disadvantaged people with chronic conditions within the country SA region.

Cancer Council

Cancer Screening in CALD communities

Objectives

The delivery of appropriate and targeted cancer prevention information and treatments focussing on the importance of early detection intervention with CALD communities in the Limestone Coast.

Shine SA

Gender Wellbeing Service

Objectives

After hours peer-led telephony information and support service (incoming and outgoing calls) to assist trans and gender diverse people living in Country SA PHN region who lack local gender diverse specialist health services.

FocusOne Health

Healthy Eating and Lifestyle

Objectives

Deliver the evidenced based Healthy Eating and Lifestyle (HEAL) modification program over 8 weeks in 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.