IN DEPTH
NICK STEELE Deputy Director-General, Healthcare Purchasing and System Performance, Queensland Department of Health
Delivering what matters Better value care for Queenslanders.
The Rapid Results Program is changing how we transform healthcare across Queensland The Queensland Health Rapid Results Program is a whole-of-system suite of projects focusing on prevention, value, culture and access, to deliver better health services and improved outcomes for Queenslanders. Queensland Health’s vision is to make Queensland’s population among the healthiest in the world. The Program uses a collaborative and innovative approach to identify, co-design and implement solutions, involving the people who know the health system best—clinicians and consumers—as well as hospital and health system leaders, and industry experts.
‘The Rapid Results Program is showing that rapid changes can be made when you put the right people and a reasonable amount of resources together’—Martin Chambers, Consumer ‘We’ve had consumers involved in a lot of our planning. I think it’s absolutely central. They bring to the table a lived experience, identifying problems that perhaps clinicians don’t see and really help inform service design.’ —Ed Heffernan, Director, Queensland Forensic Mental Health Service
Innovative projects are being accelerated and scaled across the system to achieve benefits sooner, both now and into the future.
The Health Advocate • DECEMBER 2019
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