End of the Bay Navigator pilot marked

Bay Navigator is one of the vehicles that the BOPDHB is using to achieve the reorientation that is required for better, sooner, more convenient healthcare. Bay Navigator operates at the clinical interface of community and hospital provision and is focused on elective and referred acute services delivered across the Bay of Plenty.

Following initial meetings held by the DHB’s Provider Arm and the Western Bay of Plenty Primary Health Organisation in response to these challenges, the inaugural meeting of the Care Pathways Governance Group was held on 28th June 2010, under the chairmanship of Dr Andy Humphreys (GP Liaison). This Group evolved into Bay Navigator under the chairmanship of Dr Joanne Simson (GP Liaison) and the operational leadership of Dr Joe Bourne (GP Liaison) and Kerrie Freeman (Service Improvement Leader).

Over the 15 months following the inaugural meeting, governance and support structures were set up, a website was launched, and the first voyage of pathways development was completed.

Bay Navigator has been endorsed by the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners and approved for CME for General Practice Educational Programme Stage 2 (GPEP2) and for Maintenance of Professional Standards (MOPS) purposes.

Work has been completed and health professionals educated on:

· six child health pathways: asthma, chronic otitis media, eczema, gastroenteritis, skin sepsis and urinary tract infection

· six cardiology pathways: chest pain, heart failure, heart murmur, palpitations, cardiac syncope and atrial fibrillation

· a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease pathway.

· a diabetes pathway, including the development and implementation of a new standardised patient self-management education service, coordinated across the Bay of Plenty. The service, Wellness Diabetes, aims to support patient self management of diabetes through the provision of accurate, timely diabetes education.

Feedback from Bay Navigator education evenings has been almost universally positive. With the clinical feedback and demand for templates, eReferral and secure email being incorporated into future directions for Bay Navigator technical support.

Bay Navigator 2.0, celebrates the end of a successful pilot cycle for Bay Navigator, where the future promises more collaboration, more open communication, enhanced workforce development tools and clinical decision support.
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