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CheckUP works with partner organisations and health providers to create healthier communities and reduce health inequities through a range of initiatives.
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The Eye and Ear Surgical Support (EESS) program aims to reduce the instances of avoidable vision and hearing loss in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations, through ensuring timely access to eye and ear surgical care, by strengthening patient pathways and support.
EESS services are prioritised to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in regional, rural, and remote locations across Queensland.
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Reduce surgical wait times, for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients needing eye surgery or ear surgery for conditions resulting from diseases of the middle ear.
Identify and reduce barriers to accessing timely and affordable surgery, at the nearest available location to the patients home.
Collaborate with local Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander health services, allied health
professionals, specialists, and hospitals, strengthening
culturally appropriate patient surgical pathways.
Improve eye, and ear and hearing health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Using Patient Reported Experience Measures (PREM) and Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROM) evaluation results
to increase access to culturally safe eye and ear surgery for rural and remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Jacqui Hawgood CheckUP’s, Surgical Support Manager for the Eye and Ear Surgical Support (EESS) program, discusses how program evaluation has not only informed the coordination process of the program but has also benefitted the specialists, hospitals and Aboriginal health services involved in delivering care.
Read moreThe Federally funded Eye and Ear Surgical Support (EESS) program in Queensland was CheckUP’s first foray into an enhanced focus on measuring what matters to patients and providing patient centred quality improvement recommendations back to service providers.
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