Selected Consultancies

We have undertaken many projects with a range of agencies (government, government funded and not-for-profit) in the public, health and community service sectors, and in both rural and metropolitan areas. Projects scan, inter alia, regional service delivery, Divisions of General Practice, and the mental health, disability and palliative care sectors.

Development & Review of Strategic and Business Plans

Gippsland Regional Palliative Care Consortium: Strategic Plan 2005-2009

Australian Practice Nurses Association: Strategic Plan 2004-2009

Central Hume Primary Care Partnership, Victoria: Development of Community Health Plan 2004-2007

Geelong Association of General Practice, Victoria: Clockwork Strategic Plan

Barwon, Gippsland & North Central Metropolitan Regions, Department of Human Services, Victoria: Preparation of Community Mental Health Plans (with FLP Associates)

Brain Injury Network of South Australia: Board of Management & Staff: Facilitation of Strategic Planning Workshops

Centre for Grief Education, Victoria: Board of Management & Staff: Facilitation of Strategic Planning Workshop

Barwon South-West Region, Department of Human Services, Victoria: Development of Mental Health Strategic Purchasing Plan for 2000-2005

Central East Primary Care Partnership, Victoria: Strategic Plan

Development of Strategic Plans: Divisions of General Practice

Melbourne Division of General Practice, Victoria

Central Bayside Division of General Practice, Victoria

Sherbrooke and Pakenham Division of General Practice, Victoria

Greater South East Melbourne Division of General Practice, Victoria

Inner East Melbourne Division of General Practice, Victoria

Mornington Peninsula Division of General Practice, Victoria

North East Valley Division of General Practice, Victoria

Organisation and Program Review & Capacity Building

Kingston Bayside PCP: Enhancing Access to Mental Health and Community Services

Melbourne Division of General Practice: Diabetes Co-Management Project Procedures Monitoring

Health Issues Centre, Victoria: Strategic Directions and Organisational Review
Health Issues Centre, Victoria: Stage 1: Implementation of the Strategic Directions and Organisational Review

Melbourne Division of General Practice & Jesuit Social Services, Victoria: Participating in negotiation & development of a Homelessness Coordinated Care Trial

Asian Development Bank & PNG Government (Chief Secretary of the PNG Prime Minister’s Department): Institutional Strengthening: National appraisal of the PNG Health and Education service systems within the broader political and governance context, analysis of the systemic factors affecting service quality, and design of continuous improvement interventions (with Australian Continuous Improvement Group)

Queensland Health and Department of Families, Youth & Community Care (now Disability Queensland): Review of Project 300: Review and design of a coordinated care and individualised funding system for the relocation of 300 long-term residents of a psychiatric hospital to the community

Emergency Management Australia: Panel member: Working with Communities Workshop: Developing training for emergency service personnel in working with and involving communities

Concept Mapping

Circle, RMIT University: Concept mapping: Bushfire CRC

Department of Primary Industries, Victoria: Concept Mapping

Centre for Rheumatic Disease, Victoria: Development of criteria and instruments for evaluating chronic disease self management programs

Development of instruments to assess GP integration (with the University of Melbourne) and GP readiness for care planning

Specialised concept mapping to identify critical outcomes for people with backpain, stroke, head injury, post-traumatic stress disorder and major psychiatic illness

Concept mapping to identify key outcomes for Divisions of General Practice

Advanced concept mapping analysis including multi-dimensional maps and full concept structure analysisLecturing and training in Concept Mapping methodology

Evaluation & Evaluation Design

Evaluation of the Better Outcomes in Mental Health program, Geelong Association of General Practice, Central Bayside Division of General Practice, Melbourne Division of General Practice, Victoria

VicFit, Victoria: Evaluation of the development of a resource guide for the Lifestyle Prescriptions InitiativeDepartment of Human Services, Victoria: Evaluation of Day Hospice Pilots

Melbourne Division of General Practice: Evaluation of the Diabetes Co-Management Project

Victorian Medical Advisory Service: Development of an evaluation framework for After Hours Medical Triage and Phone Advice trialCentral Bayside Division of General Practice and Bayside Kingston Primary Care Partnership, Victoria: Falls Prevention Project evaluation

Department of Health and Ageing (Commonwealth): Participating in design of the national evaluation framework for the second round of Coordinated Care Trials (with Health Outcomes International)

Melbourne and Greater South East Melbourne Divisions of General Practice: GP training in problem gambling

General Practice Divisions of Victoria: Evaluation design guide for the state evaluation of dissemination of new MBS items

Development of evaluation and survey tools for General Practice training on exercise prescription

Dandenong and Central Bayside Divisions of General Practice, Victoria: Development of a self assessment tool for GPs to assess their readiness for multidisciplinary care planning

Centre for Health Program Evaluation, Victoria: Review of items and design for revision of the Assessment of Quality of Life Index

Write up and publication on the psychometric development of the General Practice Integration Index

Needs & Satisfaction Analysis

Australian Physiotherapy Association

Mornington Division of General Practice, Victoria

WestVic Division of General Practice, Victoria

East Gippsland Division of General Practice, Victoria

Melbourne Division of General Practice, Victoria

Central West Division of General Practice, Victoria

Geelong Association of General Practice, Victoria

Greater South East Division of General Practice, Victoria

Western Melbourne Division of General Practice, Victoria

Central Highlands Division of General Practice, Victoria

Bendigo Division of General Practice, VictoriaCentral Bayside Division of General Practice, VictoriaInner East Melbourne Division of General Practice, Victoria

Community & Health Profiles

Central Hume, Upper Hume, Lower Hume & Goulbourn Valley Primary Care Partnerships, Victoria: Development of Health Profiles (4 profiles)

Instructional Design & Training

Preparation of instructional design and materials for training for Overseas Trained Doctors working within the Victorian Public hospital system (with Judith Miralles & Associates)Central Bayside Division of General Practice, Victoria: Facilitator training for General Practitioners and staff involved in running small groups

General Practice Divisions Victoria (GPDV): Presentation on model of small group learning

Central Bayside Division of General Practice: Small Group Learning evaluation analysis

Melbourne Division of General Practice: GP training in Drug and Alcohol management

North East Valley Division of General Practice, Victoria: Planning for and evaluating changes in GP clinical practice

Inner East Melbourne Division of General Practice: Key issues in strategic planning and evaluation

Case Management Society of Australia Conference: Evaluating organisational and individual level outcomes in case management programs

GPDV Conference 2000: Organisational change and knowledge management

Central Bayside Division of General Practice, Victoria: Weekend workshop: GP role development in Divisions

Introductory evaluation workshops in several Divisions of General Practice, VictoriaCentre for Program Evaluation, The University of Melbourne: Preparation of Distance Education materials for a Master of Education (Evaluation): Subject: Evaluation Theory

Department of Health (Commonwealth): Contributed to the design of cross-cultural awareness training program for Overseas Trained doctors

Deakin University: Master of Public Policy course: Preparation of Study Guide: Subject: Outsourcing in the Public Sector

Submission Preparation and Coaching Services

Plexus Consulting has prepared many submissions for community agencies and provided coaching services with a high rate of success