New Traditions - Child and Youth Health projectsNew Traditions – Child and Youth Health projects has been providing a
high level project management service for the child and youth health
sector for the past 10 years. First established in 1997, the service
has been acknowledged with several awards for service improvement.
New Traditions – Child and Youth Health programmes, concentrate on
initiative short term projects that improve the quality and build on
the interface between secondary and primary health services throughout
the Waikato district. They provide a population approach with
innovative models across the age spectrum from 0 – 24 years.
To ensure effective and timely outcomes the projects work towards the following objectives:
- integration and enabling integrated workforce development that also underpins the Model of Care
- short-term
project development that can be moved on in sustainable ways (New
Traditions is not a service provider but an initiative developer)
- child and youth advocacy and innovative approaches
- providing relationship development, maintenance and integration across settings and sectors
- an active commitment to implementing the Toward Māori Health Gain organisational framework.
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The team consists of three experienced people; programme manager, project manager and community paediatrician. The team provides strategic knowledge and experience to child and youth programmes by using Waikato District Health Board approved project methodologies. Projects for 2009 - 2010 Child and Youth programmes
| Priority | Project objectives | Chronic and long term conditions | Strategy for chronic conditions
| High | Develop a five year strategic plan for child and young people with
chronic conditions. The strategy will provide understanding of the
population needs, planned and coordinated actions to address the needs,
support for collaborative and comprehensive funding proposals. | Youth Transition with chronic conditions including mental health
| High | Develop and implement a model of care for transitioning youth with
chronic conditions to adult services. The objectives will improve
health outcomes for chronically ill young people, greater understanding
of the needs for this population, and enhanced quality of service
delivery. | | Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service | High | Improve the referral pathways between secondary and primary services in
the Hauraki and South Waikato clusters. The project will address
better integration of secondary and primary services, improved access
to support and appropriate treatment. | Secondary healthcare programme | | Emergency Department/Kidsplace patient flow | High | To understand the journeys from (pre)arrival to discharge in the
current Emergency Department/Kidsplace and provide solutions to any identified patient
flow disconnect. | | ED Six bedded short stay unit | High | This project is committed to exploring the manner in which the paediatric six – bedded short stay facility coordinates with the Kidsplace Emergency Department streaming system.
| | Inpatient guidelines | Low | This project is committed to establishing best practice standards of inpatient care guidelines for children and adolescents regardless of their admission location
| Review of data from outpatient clinics
| Medium
| This project will provide information on who, what and how people are attending outpatient clinics. This data will better inform both secondary and primary care in future planning.
| Child health programme
| | Child Health Forums | Medium | Initiated by the Y1 champion group. The child forums will be held
throughout Waikato district to address systems issues with the transfer
of care from one service to another, find solutions for transient
children and high need families/whanau. | Information and resources
| Waikato District Health Board web page
| Low | The development of easy to read and informative information will be developed and applied to the Health Waikato webpage. The project is to support improved access to services, increased community, professional and organisational knowledge of services in their area and identifying gaps in areas of services.
| Web Health
| Low | The development of easy to read and informative information will be developed and applied to Web Health. The project is to support improved access to services, increased community, professional and organisational knowledge of services in their area and identifying gaps in areas of services.
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| Community paediatrician activity (inclusive of community child health advanced trainee/fellow) | Priority | Clinical expertise and research | | Chronic conditions | High | Provide clinical expertise on the project. | | Gastro and asthma guidelines review | Medium | Provide paediatric advice with the Primary Health Organisation review of the guidelines. | Representation on Y1 Champion group (Y1 Champion group focuses on initiatives in the first year of life)
| Low | Community paediatrician to be involved in strategic leadership of Y1 initiatives. | | Representation on child and youth mortality review group | Low | Liaison paediatrician, clinical advisor, and duty chairperson |
Awards/achievements 2006 - Best Health Awards - Collaborative winnerProject Energize – This award recognises and rewards outstanding examples of collaboration - within our health services, across primary and secondary health sectors, and intersectorally – that have contributed to service improvements or better health outcomes.
2004 - Clinical Service Delivery Excellence - FinalistManagement of acute asthma in children – This category recognises initiatives that have improved the delivery of services to patients / clients e.g. changed timing or means of service delivery. These initiatives focus on making services more accessible and /or acceptable to patients / clients.
2000 - KPMG Innovation Award - Finalist - Crown EntityRecognising innovation in the public sector - The award was judged on innovation, effectiveness, significance of benefits and transferability of systems and processes to the other public sector organisation
Contact us New Traditions, Child and Youth Health 218a Pembroke Street Private Bag 3200 Waikato Hospital Hamilton 3240 Phone: (07) 839 8899 ext 6582, ext 6659Cellphone: 021 759 639
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