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Primary Care and Cancer Screening: A Quality Improvement Toolkit Sara Gloede

Acknowledgement of Country I start by acknowledging the traditional custodians of the lands on which I work and live, and their continuing connection to land, sea and community. I pay my respects to Elders past and present, and to all First Nations people.

NSW Primary Care Screening Strategy Increase participation rates • through recommendations and follow-up Increase involvement of • primary care in screening Improve knowledge about • screening among health professionals working in primary care

Developing A Toolkit That is: Easy, Interesting, Relevant and Accessible ü Consolidates learnings since 2016 ü Builds on existing resources and lessons ü Promotes ‘Success in practice’ case studies ü Links to software providers own ‘how to’ guidance ü Builds in ‘Success in practice’ case studies

Purpose of the Toolkit The Toolkit guides practices through the steps required to: • establish accurate cancer screening participation rates • identify patients who are overdue for screening • establish an effective cancer screening reminder system • deliver patient-centred care to patients at increased risk of non-participation in screening

Value of reminders …

5 Modules .

Module 1: Commit

Getting started

Workplan templates

Module 2: Clean

Module 3 - Connect

Module 4: Care

Knowing your patients

Module 5: Continue

Next Steps • Working with NSW Primary Health Networks in testing the Toolkit with their practices • Launch by early 2020 • Evaluate use and review late 2020

Thank You to ü The members of the Expert Reference Panel ü The NSW cancer screening program teams ü The software vendors ü All NSW Primary Health Networks ü Colleagues across the country who provided advice and support. Sara Gloede : sara.gloede@health.nsw.gov.au