Workshop 1: St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne (SVHM) CareSynergy – Barriers to Discharge from Specialist Clinics

St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne (SVHM) invites GPs to attend 2 workshops (25^th March and 27^th May 2025) to explore barriers to discharge from specialist clinics and associated interventions to overcome these barriers.

In 2024, they developed resources to facilitate ‘Supported Discharge’ from specialist clinics for patients with chronic Hep B (not on treatment) and those who had undergone bariatric surgery. These resources drew on established guidelines and input from our gastroenterology and bariatric surgery teams to develop handover tools.

This work highlighted the broad range of barriers to discharge, and served as a prompt for St Vincent’s current project ‘Supported Discharge from Specialist Clinics’: A Study of Feasibility and Anticipated Value, which is funded by Eastern Melbourne PHN’s CareSynergy Program. CareSynergy is aimed at improving integration between hospitals and primary care across the North East Metro.

The SVHM CareSynergy project is undertaking stakeholder consultation (including GP workshops) and other research to identify

– barriers to discharge from clinics, and

– resources/interventions/relationships which overcome these barriers

We will then develop a model(s) of care which incorporates these adaptations.

The project seeks to promote a sense of collaboration between hospitals and primary care, contribute to the efficient utilisation of specialist clinics and optimise access for additional patients requiring non-GP specialist assessment/care.

Workshop Details:

• Workshop 1 – identifying barriers and proposing solutions
  • 8:30 am – 11 am, Tuesday 25^th of March 2025
  • St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, Fitzroy Campus
• Workshop 2 – review of proposed care model(s)
  • 8:30 am – 10:30, Tuesday 27^th of May 2025
  • St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, Fitzroy Campus OR via Microsoft Teams meeting (to be decided)

You will be remunerated for your time at a rate of $150/hour (+GST) including 0.5 hours of pre-reading.

If you are interested and available to attend, please reply via rachael.sutherland@svha.org.au or to joint project leads Cath White catherine.white@svha.org.au and Meg Marmo meg.marmo@svha.org.au. for this event.