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DOWNLOAD: Medical Outreach Indigenous Eye Health Program Needs Assessment Report – July 2022 (PDF)

Improving access to eye health care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients across the full spectrum of eye care, ensuring services from referral, initial consultations, treatment and return to the community. A component of the Closing the Gap – Improving Eye and Ear Health Services for Indigenous people.

Indigenous Eye Health Coordination (CIEH) improves access to eye health care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients across the full spectrum of eye care. This includes ensuring integration of services from referral, initial consultations, treatment and return to the community. Coordination of Indigenous Eye Health is a component of the Closing the Gap – Improving Eye and Ear Health Services for Indigenous people.

CIEH Objective:
Improving access to eye care for Indigenous patients through the improved coordination of services, including improved linkages between a range of services required by patients and enhanced delivery of these services.

FAQs

What CIEH Funding Will Cover

The funding for CIEH covers RWAV staff resource to ensure the coordination of the activities in partnership with external stakeholders. Similar activities with ear health coordination program.

CIEH Locations And Health Priorities

The priority for CIEH is focusing on the coordination of services across the full spectrum of eye care, including those delivered through the Medical Outreach Indigenous Chronic Disease Programme (MOICDP), Rural Health Outreach Fund (RHOF) and the Visiting Optometrists Scheme (VOS).

As part of the planning and implementation of the CIEH activities, RWAV will be working in partnership with eye health care stakeholders working across the state (including Primary Health Networks, local health services and hospitals, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services, eye health care service providers, Victorian Department of Health and local health organisations) to ensure integration of services from initial consultations, to treatment, referral and continuity of care for the local communities.

Further Coordination Of Indigenous Health Information

Medical Outreach Indigenous Eye Health Program Needs Assessment Report – July 2022