Hospital Care

This project is a small co-design project with young people (15 and older) with disability and their parents/carers. This is designed to support and inform a larger 2-year proof of concept project ‘In Their Habitat’ that has been co-funded by the Research Foundation of the Cerebral Palsy Alliance and the Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation. The goal of ‘In Their Habitat’ is to develop a consistent approach to paediatric rehabilitation where assessment of movement will not be made in the rarefied clinical environment but in the community with children undertaking the activities that make up their daily life.

Developing working estimates of survival benefits from smoking cessation in cancer settings

The aim of this study is to provide working, simple numeric estimates of five-year overall survival outcomes in relation to quitting smoking to help inform patients with cancer. Smoking cessation after any episode of hospitalisation is a cost-effective addition to medical interventions but widespread hospital-based implementation of smoking cessation is rare and clinicians feel they are either too time restricted or do not have the training to commence conversations around cessation with patients.

SHAReD: Shared Health Arrangements Research & Development

The SHAReD study aims to improve the coordination of care between mental health services and primary care to better manage risk factors for heart disease and diabetes and improve the health of people living with severe mental illness. It will introduce telehealth and web-based shared care plans between consumers, mental health services and general practices allowing them to better communicate with each other and plan care.