Divisions and Hospitals Integration Program

Project Status
Completed

Project Coordinator
Jane Lloyd, Miriam Atakuman

Chief Investigators
Mark Harris, Gawaine Powell Davies

Other Team Members
Judy Lissing

Rationale

This project followed on from a national forum on GP-hospital integration run by CGPIS in 1997. It complemented the National Demonstration Hospitals Program phase 3, which was addressing the relationship between GPs and hospitals from a hospital perspective.

Design and Method

A meta-evaluation of seven pilot projects, based on project documents, interviews with project staff and a consultative workshop

Key Publications

CGPIS (2000). GPs and Hospitals working together: case studies of the Divisions and Hospitals Integration Program. Sydney, CGPIS

CGPIS (2000). Proceedings of DHIP Showcase Conference. Sydney, CGPIS.

CGPIS (2000). Approaches to GP-Hospital Integration: lessons from DHIP. Sydney, CGPIS

Lloyd J, Powell Davies PG, Harris MF. Integration between GPs and hospitals: lessons from a Division-hospital program. Aust Health Rev 23(4):134-141

Lloyd J, Powell Davies PG, Harris MF (2000). Lessons from integration program - From the Divisions – ADGP. Medicine Today, Aug: 95-7

Sibthorpe B (2000). Brief External Review of the Evaluation of the Divisions and Hospitals Integration Program. Canberra, ANU