General Practices invited to join new chronic disease clinical trial
The trial is focused on preventing or delaying progression of chronic disease in our community with chronic kidney disease and diabetic care as key priorities.
It will explore a model of care that combines electronic clinical decision support with enhanced support from the Western Health team and is available to practices in the Western Health catchment.
What will practices be asked to do?
The project will ask GPs to trial an innovative clinical decision support technology called Future Health Today (FHT) in their daily practice. FHT will be provided to the practice free of charge for the duration of the project.
In addition, Western Health clinicians will provide clinical education, support and access to a chronic kidney disease nurse practitioner and increased diabetes educator support.
Project outcomes will be evaluated using de-identified data from your practice that has been securely extracted using the GRHANITE™ tool.
We hope that participation in this project:
- Improves diagnosis and management of chronic kidney disease, diabetes and cardiovascular disease across primary and secondary care,
- Enhances collaboration between general practices in the western suburbs of Melbourne and Western Health and,
- Improves health outcomes for patients.
This project is funded by Safer Care Victoria via the 100,000 lives initiative and includes a $1,000 payment for participating practices.
Please contact us via vicren-enquiries@unimelb.edu.au if you are interested in hearing more about the project.