Call for innovative projects to improve health service delivery across northern Australia

The Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) is looking for new ideas and research and development collaborations in health service delivery and models of care across northern Australia. Funded programs will consist of industry-led research and development projects focused across five key themes and will involve several research and industry partners.

"We are seeking big ideas and new solutions to resolve the long-standing challenges associated with health service delivery across the north."

 Anne Stünzner, CEO CRCNA

The themes of work identified include:

1. Workforce development
   1. Implementing a pan northern Australian approach to developing a fit-for-model health workforce.
   2. Increasing recruitment, stability and mobility of the rural and remote health workforce and improving the cultural responsiveness of the workforce.
2. Innovative of models of care
   1. Strengthen the delivery of comprehensive primary health care through place-based models of care, co-designed with community.
3. Building health research capacity
   1. Building long-term, sustainable research capacity and capability across northern Australia.
4. New models of health funding
   1. Identifying the principles and mechanisms that should underpin financing of health care in rural and remote northern Australia to facilitate improved national distribution of health funding which acknowledges the inequities associated with the increased burden of chronic disease, reduced potential for economies of scale advantages and increased costs of service provision in remote areas.
5. Health infrastructure
   1. Facilitating and funding cross-sectoral action and coordination to reduce the effect of adverse social determinants on health by activating local partnerships across the drivers of health (socioeconomic / cultural determinants of health).