{"id":9346,"date":"2022-05-26T09:40:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T23:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/?p=6829"},"modified":"2022-10-28T08:05:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T22:05:38","slug":"coh-nib-0522","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/newsletters\/coh-express\/coh-nib-0522","title":{"rendered":"News in brief"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spotlight on community-based vaccination services<\/h2>\n

The COH vaccination service started in March 2021 at Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Service (STARS) and expanded to additional community sites at Doomben and Kippa Ring in May 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the need for increased access to vaccination become more critical, the service opened a mass vaccination clinic at Boondall Entertainment Centre. Brighton Health Precinct provided a community vaccination service.<\/p>\n

In January 2022, the COVID-19 vaccination program was expanded to include five to 11 year olds. This necessitated the need to enable the safe provision of paediatric vaccination, as well as maintaining an over 12-year-old program.<\/p>\n

By February 2022, it was apparent that Metro North\u2019s COVID-19 vaccination rates exceeded 90 per cent for people who had received two doses.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

What has COH delivered?<\/h3>\n

Between March 2021 and April 2022, COH vaccination services delivered more than 412,000 COVID-19 vaccinations in the community for those aged five to 100 years of age. Metro North provided a total of 640,681 vaccinations in more than 103 locations.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Where did we go and how did we deliver the services?<\/h3>\n

The directorate-led service provided vaccinations at more than 80 sites across Metro North. This included the community-based vaccination clinics, schools, residential aged care, expos, Bunnings, sporting events, markets and community health centres.<\/p>\n

It was proven that pop-up clinics enabled people who would not have accessed vaccination to be vaccinated in a timely, convenient manner.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Through the pandemic and beyond<\/h2>\n

The Complex Chronic Disease Team (CCDT) has delivered a flexible and dynamic virtual model of care that has allowed service provision continuation to vulnerable clients who are at risk of deterioration or hospital admission despite the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

During high levels of staff redeployment in early 2022, CCDT has also maintained direct client contact through virtual care, providing more than 1000 direct client interventions via Telehealth or telephone each month.<\/p>\n

CCDT are the only statewide cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation providers that have been able to continue care without interruption, by running a completely virtual telerehabilitation program for close to 100 clients.<\/p>\n

The service is offered as a group intervention (up to six clients per group) or as a 1:1 intervention, dependant on clinical need.<\/p>\n

CCDT continues to refine their virtual care options and recently developed client \u2018cheat sheets\u2019 for troubleshooting technology. Virtual care will continue to be offered as a standard modality of care beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Supporting patient flow in Redcliffe Hospital ED<\/h2>\n

The Referral, Assessment and Navigation team have been assisting the Redcliffe Emergency Department to manage hospital capacity by proactively looking at referrals to Community and Oral Health.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you to everyone involved in the exploration of new pathways. Last month saw the transfer of the first patient directly to the Brighton Rehabilitation Unit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Best practice staff improvements for GPOHS<\/h2>\n

Our General Practice Oral Health Service has been progressing best practice survey strategies to improve our services.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This includes:<\/p>\n