Clinician Assist WA is delivered by WA Primary Health Alliance, in collaboration with WA Health and local specialists, and is designed to help health professionals navigate their patients through the complex primary, community and tertiary health care systems. Unlike traditional guidelines, clinical, non-clinical and referral pathways are succinct and intended to be used during a consultation. They are evidence-based and summarise locally relevant and agreed-upon assessment, management, and referral guidance on key patient presentations. The extensive library on Clinician Assist WA includes more than 600 clinical and non-clinical topics, with corresponding referral pathways that have been adapted to the WA context. These have been developed considering different patient population needs, and locally available resources and referral options. Our aim is to improve health equity by ensuring health professionals have access to up to date clinical and referral information to support all Western Australians. If you would like to learn more about Clinician Assist WA or if you are interested in a demonstration for you or your practice, please contact us via email at clinicianassist@wapha.org.au
Who contributes to Clinician Assist WA?
Clinical pathways are developed, regularly reviewed and maintained by a team of local GP Clinical Editors, in consultation with local specialists and subject matter experts. Referral pathways are developed and maintained in collaboration with community and hospital service providers to support referrers in making high quality, timely referrals to the right services for their patients. Clinician Assist has established relationships with WA Health to support this process. We welcome your feedback to help inform and enhance our clinical, non-clinical and referral pathways, which can be submitted via any page on the site.
The multi-step process of developing and reviewing clinical pathways can be complex, often involving consultation with numerous stakeholders. The result is a suite of comprehensive, clinically accurate and robustly governed clinical pathways, which are structured considering their GP primary audience, no matter where they are located in WA. Newly developed clinical, non-clinical and referral pathways are added to the review schedule from the date of first publication. A dedicated team of GP Clinical Editors and Coordinators at WAPHA ensure any critical updates required outside of the review schedule are actioned promptly.
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