About the Project
A body of work undertaken in 2008 by Alfred Health investigating the impact of diabetes on their services and across the service system lead to the formation of the South East Bayside Diabetes Alliance (SEBDA). The alliance comprises twelve key agencies responsible for diabetes services across the Inner South East and Bayside catchments who in 2009 agreed to work in partnership to improve care continuums and collaboration across health care settings for the management of diabetes. The agencies involved include primary care partnerships, local divisions of general practice, hospitals, community health services and diabetes peak bodies. For a full list of agency partners click here.
Project aim
“To improve access to appropriate care for people with diabetes in the Inner South East and Kingston Bayside community through the development of a catchment wide, co-ordinated model of care.”
Project Plan
Seven key goals have been developed, based on the primary focus to improve client access to appropriate diabetes services. These key goals span the first two years of the project; the length for which the project is currently funded.
The aim of the first two years of the project, referred to as Stage one, is to source and develop the required pathways and supports to improve client access to diabetes services and to build a platform for improving service coordination and integration.
Stage two (funding yet to be confirmed) will not only focus on access to services but extend to how that care is delivered. This will include areas such as multidisciplinary care planning, self management and use of evidence based guidelines.
The seven agreed goals that form the two year project plan (stage one) are shown below.
SEBDA Project Goals Year One and Two
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Facilitate clinician and client access to information about the range of local diabetes services
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Facilitate availability of appropriate, common and clear referral resources and decision supports for clinicians |
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Identify and clarify referral pathways for people with diabetes between acute, primary and private sectors |
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Improve collaboration between local service providers |
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Explore partner agencies capacity to collect data on number of clients receiving diabetes care and develop an evidence base for improved service integration
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Determine current distribution and availability of diabetes services in local catchment (to explore opportunities for improvement) |
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Identify and explore the enablers and barriers to service access for vulnerable groups of people with diabetes |
To view the full Project Plan 2010-11 please click here.
Year One Reports
To view the reports produced from the first year’s work, please click here.
Year One Outcomes
The SEBDA triangle is a framework that has been developed for diabetes management and referral.It can be used by anybody working with an individual with diabetes and their family/carer as a guide to how individual needs can be appropriately managed.
The framework is based on the principle that it is the level of complexity and risk that determines the appropriate management and the appropriate service.The triangle is interactive and allows the user to be guided to a local diabetes service provider appropriate for their patient/client.
The interactive version of the triangle is hosted on the Diabetes Australia (Vic) website.
Planning documents
Communications Strategy
Consumer Participation Strategy
2009-10 Project Plan
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