Extended Scope of Practice Projects Request For Proposal Information Session Tuesday 28 February 2012, am Extended Scope of Practice – Physiotherapists in the Emergency Departments, Lead Organisations (HWA-RFP/2011/007)

2 Information session outline Session 1: Tuesday, 28 February pm Rules and conduct of the Webinar Information session (1 hour) Webinar scheduled for 1 hour –0 - 25min Webinar conduct & HWA presentation – min Q&A session questions submitted prior – min Open Q&A items posted during Webinar. All participants on mute for first part Posting questions – via the control panel. Recorded & lodged on HWA website afterwards If you log out by mistake: revisit registration confirmation

3 Agenda: RFP 007 General issues for extended scope of practice reform across all four Request for Proposals (RFPs) Issues specific to this RFP Access to recording of the session Q&A on the HWA Extended Scope of Practice Reform webpage

4 Request for Proposal (RFP) You have expressed interest in HWA -ESPL -RFP 007 General: all proposals required by 2pm Australian Central Daylight Time 09 March - submit completed template (Section 3 of RFP) Information provision will continue via FAQ section on website Workforce focus; extended scope of practice of physiotherapists in the Emergency Department Themes: National trend of increasing presentations to the Emergency Department and related workforce issues.

5 General workforce and workload issues Context: –Increasing number of presentations to Emergency Departments –Overcrowding issues –Workforce issues – support for FACEMS –Issues in delivering the national 4 hour rule Strategy and objective: Develop innovative extended scope of practice roles and use the current workforce more productively for more responsive service. Drive large scale adoption. Implement successful models based on evidence – ESOP project + existing jurisdictional initiatives - develop toolkits for national dissemination of successful models. - barriers to change: Professional protectionism, on going financial support, legislation

6 RFP: Lead Organisation projects Broad requirements: Existing model of extended scope physiotherapist in ED that demonstrate improved productivity. Ability to support and mentor implementation sites to successfully establish the service model during the project life span. Ability to further develop the existing model Development of toolkits and implementation guidelines for national dissemination. Management of internal cross professional relationships External – Management of partnership arrangements with implementation sites

7 Project management Funding agreements: three-stage approach to implementing evidence of redesigned workforce models Stage 1 – Setup: Period of time to be agreed with HWA to set up the evidence based and agreed model for implementation and evaluation framework against set criteria in the RFP. Stage 2 – Implementation: implement and monitor the model for at least twelve months. Stage 3 – Evaluation structured evaluation process that HWA will develop in partnership with the organisations and a selected evaluation consultant for common and specific outputs and outcomes

8 How do we expect you to work together?  Work closely with HWA via a variety of mechanisms to achieve optimal redesign and diffusion of knowledge  Work with evaluation consultant on the development of evaluation methodology and internal KPIs.  Lead organisation : Having a training, lead and/or mentoring role through having an established working model.  Internal partnering with your own stakeholders.  Attendance at up to four workshops for knowledge management and to drive shared redesign / reform approaches in your RFP group  Demonstration of sustainability beyond funding ; determination of what is required for large scale adoption  Sound multidisciplinary governance arrangements for this proposal

9 Anticipated outcomes & evaluation  Workforce Innovation: Implementation of new and innovative roles to support the existing workforce and service delivery requirements.  Workforce productivity: Workflow impacts particularly on medical practitioners.  Models of flexible workforce configuration (balance of Medical/ Allied Health staff);  Workforce responsiveness: increased and continuous access to supply of right services, first time;  Workforce flexibility: models of workforce practice adaptable and flexible to future change;

10 Sub-ProjectProject Focus Suitable RFP Organisations Lead Organisation Project $ Extended Scopes of Practice – Physiotherapist s in the Emergency Department Extended Scope of Practice Physiotherapist roles that will have an impact on workload. Health care organisations from the government run or private sectors that have one or more Emergency Departments with Physiotherapists in regular attendance. Up to $300,000 each up to two organisations Having a training, lead and/or mentoring role through having an established working model HWA RFP – ESPL - 007

11 Implementation Sites  A separate RFP process will be held for Implementation sites for the project following the completion of this process and once the Lead Organisations have been selected.  There will be up to 4 Implementation sites with separate funding allocations to those allocations for the Lead Organisations.  There is the option in this RFP for the Lead Organisation to identify or nominate a proposed partner Implementation site(s) if required.

12 HWA RFP Information Session Posted questions pre- webinar Your questions posted during the information session Q&A on webpage - per specific RFP - general