Connecting Healthcare In Communities

Statewide CHIC Partnership

The Statewide CHIC Partnership is providing governance for the CHIC initiative. The lead agencies of this partnership include key stakeholders in primary health care from Queensland Health, General Practice Queensland, Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council and the Combined Health Agencies Group- a multi-agency group representing Blue Care, Spiritus, Queensland Health Community Health, RSL Care and Ozcare.

The role and responsibility of this multi-stakeholder partnership is to provide high level advice, guidance and leadership at a statewide level, including:

• Policy, organisational, funding and evaluation principles and priorities;
• Identifying and addressing system enablers, barriers and issues impacting on the implementation of effective Partnership Councils;
• Providing information and support on innovative service delivery and partnering; and
• Encouraging and facilitating opportunities for the sharing of information and progress, between Partnerships Councils throughout the state.

 Statewide CHIC Governance Partnership Council Membership

• Chair - Deputy Director-General, Policy, Planning and Resourcing Division, Queensland Health
• Secretariat - CHIC Statewide Coordinator, Queensland Health

Representatives of:

• General Practice Queensland (Management)
• General Practice Queensland (Clinician)
• Director, Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
• Chair Person, Combined Health Agencies Group (CHAG)
• CEO, Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Corporation
• Ass. General Manager, Southern Area Health Service, Queensland Health
• Ass. General Manager, Central Area Health Service, Queensland Health
• Ass. General Manager, Northern Area Health Service, Queensland Health
• Director, Policy Branch, Queensland Health
• Director, Population Health, Queensland Health
• Director, Chronic Disease Implementation Team, Queensland Health
• Manager, Clinical Practice Improvement Team, Queensland Health

Other people may be invited to provide expert advice to the Implementation Working Group from time to time, as required.